Sometimes when you read an acronym it is immediately obvious that the author liked the sound of the word and then made the letters fit the application as an afterthought.

Today's acronym is BASH which stands for; Bird Aircraft Strike Hazard. It is also known as bird strike or bird ingestion (when a bird is sucked into a jet turbine). These bird-related incidents are estimated to cost commercial airlines about $1.2 billion dollars annually. You can see how a goose getting sucked through an engine might cause massive damage but it's hard to imagine a bird doing much more than bouncing off the body or windscreen of a plane.

Here are 18 bird strike photos that dispel these myths.