The difference is one is 'potential' and possibly imagined and one is a reasonably frequent occurrence in nature already. Drone risk is overstated and like bullets only dangerous with a dumbass or someone with intent behind the trigger.
The Frozen Chook it is sort of an urban legend but it did apparently happen with an inexperienced operator on a bird strike test gun forgetting or not knowing to thaw out a carcass before using 
We-e-e-elll.... that's the problem in a nutshell. There's a HUGE difference between "drone operator", "multirotor pilot" or "quad racer" vs "dumbass with a drone" or "ne'er-do-well with a multirotor" "or terrorist with a UAV".
When it comes to air traffic safety, they HAVE to treat ANY "UAV in a controlled airspace" as if it WERE a "terrorist with a UAV". I understand, respect and support that POV ENTIRELY. They have NO WAY of knowing until well after the fact if the craft in question is the ubiquitous $20 toy (Yes, they are that cheap now... I bought one this Christmas just to see what it was like. It's a cheap toy, but it flies well and has a 7-9 minute runtime) that is incapable of carrying any useful payload or a $300 kit that can carry 2Kg of C4 several miles away from the operator.
The regulation of "multirotor pilots" is another can of worms altogether, and entirely political in nature. Politicians and the corporations who own them are scared sheepless of the idea of thousands of privately-owned "eyes in the skies" documenting every payoff, bit of skullduggery or outright illegal activity being committed in public spaces. If you need proof of that, just look at the history of TX HB912; where instead of fining the shit out of Columbia Packing for illegally dumping enough raw pig's blood to turn a river red for miles, they fabricated a lawsuit against the AP drone operator and passed utterly unconstitutional laws which outlaw pretty much every aspect of model aviation. Under the idiotic wording of this insane law, even the RC Radio link used to fly a model aircraft is technically illegal. 
If it were just "drone operators", "multirotor pilots" and "quad racers" we have to worry about, the FAA would NEVER have gotten involved.Yes, the accidental frozen turkey was on a windshield test, however. That DID evidently give some engineers some ideas later on down the road; and there was a video circulating 10 years or so ago, supposedly an engineering test, of a frozen turkey shot at a multistage turbine jet engine. Of course, this is the internet we're talking about. Anything seen here has to be taken with a grain of salt.
Like you having this conversation with a retired mechanic-engineer-tinkerdwagon at oh-dark-hundred in the AM.
Very lucky and well done by all concerned. Perhaps the engines ingested something soft like a Flock of Seagulls and for no good reason other than my mind went there. All that Hair product would be a real risk in a Turbine
Nightclubbing tunes of my Youth
https://youtu.be/iIpfWORQWhU
*Cackles out loud*
I remember seeing them live in a club on the Nautica (night club strip in Cleveland, Ohio) when I was a senseless teenager. They were even wetter IRL than on video.
It was reported to be a flock of geese.
Yep, doesn't matter how many were swallowed....the fires went out which means bits of them after being sliced and diced by the turbofan went through into the core of the turbine engines and that's never gunna end well.
Things in there are high RPM and close toleranced and when you see the guts of a turbine, quite fragile too.
Yes, this. 1000x THIS. That is the "how & why" behind my original statement on this subject that started all this discussion.
A modern jet engine's compressor is made of dozens of individual blades, individually balanced and bolted together into a rotating mass spinning at 10-20K RPM. As dangerous as impact is the effect of imbalance on that rotating mass, which will cause the engine to tear itself apart. At those speeds, the moment-angle of a loosed turbine blade fragment imparts terrifying kinetic energy on that projectile.
"Engine in(di)gestion," today on the TEA daily sidebar...
I KNEW you'd get it!
The better part of the TEA thread, as others have stated, is the fact you never know WHAT flavor of "full frontal nerdity" will be the morning's topic of discussion.
I think that's what makes this such a great hangout.
mnem
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