Examples of FOD include : All aircraft may occasionally lose small parts during takeoff and landing . These parts remain on the runway and can cause damage to tires of other aircraft , hit the fuselage or windshield/canopy , or get sucked up into an engine . Although airport ground crews regularly clean up runways , the crash of Air France Flight 4590 demonstrated that accidents can still occur : in that case , the crash was said to have been caused by debris left by a flight that had departed only four minutes earlier
Air France Flight 4590
Air France Flight 4590
Foreign object damage