"We threw a rod!"
"How high did it go?"
"This particular rod was in compression Sir. She went up about 10 feet. Four people injured, luckily there was no one next to it..."
"And?"
"Well, you might want to alert the deck crew. The upper deck is covered white from bird, umm, perturbation."
Probably not technically accurate, but I've had this hilarious image in my head after first reading this thread and the scale involved. Particularly the "how high?".
I thought the compression and consequent pressure might shoot that sucker straight up one or two hundred feet, but then I thought of the massiveness of the rod-piston system, and decided that that was a huge overestimation.

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