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Mechanic sucked into jet engine (Continental Airlines 737)
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Posted on 01/16/2006 3:32:00 PM PST by Central Scrutiniser
Edited on 01/16/2006 4:18:09 PM PST by Admin Moderator.
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To: BykrBayb
Actually, it did happen and the guy survived. The engine sucked off his helmet first which caused it to shut down. The guy managed to hang on long enough for the engine to lose power.
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posted on
01/16/2006 3:42:52 PM PST
by
COEXERJ145
(Those Who Want to Impeach President Bush Are the Party of Treason.)
To: BykrBayb
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posted on
01/16/2006 3:43:18 PM PST
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: Central Scrutiniser
Well, how about the safety procedures? Isn't there a manual, a set of guidelines, regular repeated training that says 'Never do this'?
To: JOE6PAK
Not nice at all. When my son was in the Navy, he also saw somebody sucked into a jet engine on a carrier. We're so used to being around these things that we forget how dangerous they are.
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posted on
01/16/2006 3:44:38 PM PST
by
livius
To: proudpapa
Good thing this happened before takeoff.
Yeah, those flying maintenance men are a real safety hazard for airborne planes.
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posted on
01/16/2006 3:44:45 PM PST
by
jwh_Denver
(Don't be near Ted Kennedy when his liver explodes.)
To: andyk
Yeah, only once per victim!
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posted on
01/16/2006 3:44:59 PM PST
by
Redleg Duke
(Kennedy and Kerry, the two Commissars of the Peoples' Republic of Massachusetts!)
To: proudpapa
Good thing this happened before takeoff. Otherwise he could have brought the whole plane down.
You figured that out all by yourself?....
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posted on
01/16/2006 3:45:31 PM PST
by
deport
To: Central Scrutiniser
a guy who was taking a nap ...This happened back in the 1960's ...
A shipyard in Seattle was extending an oil tanker, cutting it in two and adding a section. During the process the big oil pipes on the main deck were cut and were open. There was a worker on swing shift who got into the habit of eating lunch and then sneaking off for a nap -- several feet into the open cargo pipe.
Several other workers decided to teach him a lesson. Once he had crawled in and was asleep, they spot welded a piece of plywood and some temporary pieces of steel over the end of the pipe. They then walked up to the point in the pipe where his head would be, and rapped on the pipe with a big wrench. The guy was startled, but didn't start to panic until he got to the end of the pipe and hit the plywood!
He quit taking naps after that.
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posted on
01/16/2006 3:45:50 PM PST
by
StevieB
To: Gay State Conservative
I once saw a video of a Navy aircraft carrier crewman who was sucked into the engine of an aircraft and *survived*. One of the most amazing things I've ever seen! I saw that video too. Amazing is an understatement.
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posted on
01/16/2006 3:46:09 PM PST
by
Fiddlstix
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To: Gay State Conservative
I saw that video. A marine friend of mine said they use that video in their training courses. The guy that was sucked into the intake on the carrier was saved by his helmet. His body lodged in the intake just long enough for the helmet to be ripped off. The helmet blew the engine when it hit the turbine.
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
01/16/2006 3:47:25 PM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: jwh_Denver
LOL ... you beat me to it!
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posted on
01/16/2006 3:48:23 PM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Central Scrutiniser
In my neck of the woods we had a painter step out of a DC10 side door. He broke his back, did hospital time on workmens comp. We chipped in and re-equiped his hospital room (TV, stereo, VCR & playboy channel) of course we figured he'd own the company as soon as the dust settled.
11 months later he was back painting airplanes. :(
To: ConservativeMind
ROTLMAO, what a good joke for the evening!!!!
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posted on
01/16/2006 3:50:09 PM PST
by
rajuchor
To: FunkyZero; All
Very nasty reputation on these
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posted on
01/16/2006 3:50:14 PM PST
by
vrwc0915
("Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants,)
To: Central Scrutiniser
I have a friend who worked on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. He saw one of his friend get sucked up into an engine.
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posted on
01/16/2006 3:51:22 PM PST
by
mware
(The keeper of the I's once again.)
To: COEXERJ145
>>Actually, it did happen and the guy survived.<<
For AF jet engines, a person could get lodged on the stator (stationary) blades preventing him from being sucked on into the whirling rotor blades. However, if not removed quickly enough, he may look like he had been attacked by giant leeches, or worse, be emptied of his internal organs.
Muleteam1
To: ConservativeMind
I wasnt gonna bring that up but my comment to my wife was "gives a new meaning to hi pilots"
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posted on
01/16/2006 3:52:33 PM PST
by
halfright
(3 Days post Hanoi (Jihadi) Jane... 2200hrs meeting to urinate on her grave...Semper Fi !)
To: BykrBayb
A man went in one side, and red mist came out the other.<<<
Yup..its called FOOD to a jet engine...Whoops!..its only 1 O....FOD...(Foreign object damage)...and no it doesn't mean the guy was a foreign undocumented worker..
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posted on
01/16/2006 4:01:58 PM PST
by
M-cubed
(Why is "Greshams Law" a law?)
To: Central Scrutiniser
Hmmm, posted on the news at 5:55 on 1-16-6, ...I can just hardly wait until 1:11 on 6-6-6
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posted on
01/16/2006 4:06:52 PM PST
by
Cvengr
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