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Report: Airport Worker Sucked into Plane Engine Was Repeatedly Warned to Stay Back
RNN ^ | 01-26-2023 | Jim Clayborn

Posted on 01/26/2023 7:58:53 AM PST by montag813

by Jim Clayborn

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released a preliminary report regarding the death of an airport worker at the Montgomery Regional Airport in Alabama on New Year’s Eve.

The report indicated that Courtney Edwards, 34, a ramp agent for American Airlines subsidiary, Piedmont Airlines, was killed after she was sucked into a plane engine despite being warned not to get close to the engine.

At around 2:40 p.m., American Eagle flight ENY3408 from Dallas-Fort Worth arrived at the gate following an “uneventful flight,” according to the NTSB report via Alabama News Network. After stopping the plane, the crew let both engines keep running for the required two-minute engine cool-down period as they waited for the plane to be connected to the power in the ground.

The crew did this since they were operating with a broken auxiliary power unit.

As crew members were shutting down the engines, they got an alert that the cargo door was open. The first officer opened his window from the cockpit to let the ramp agents know that the engines were still running, while the captain announced for passengers to remain in their seats.

The first officer then reported he “saw a warning light illuminate and the airplane shook violently followed by the immediate automatic shutdown of the number 1 engine,” according to the report. “Unsure of what had occurred, he extinguished the emergency lights and shut off both batteries before leaving the flight deck to investigate.”

(Excerpt) Read more at rightnewsnow.org ...


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KEYWORDS: americanairlines; courtneyedwards; ebonics; guess; no; piedmontairlines; signs
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To: TexasGator

YES


81 posted on 01/26/2023 9:23:24 AM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: montag813

Her ancestors should have been left on the African savanna. It’s not as though the slave boat buyers ever did any IQ tests for picking cotton


82 posted on 01/26/2023 9:24:44 AM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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To: SpaceBar

Chris Plante Show on Twitter: “Everyday’s an IQ test!”
https://twitter.com/ChrisPlanteShow/status/1608825427560390662
Dec 30, 2022 · Everyday’s an IQ test! 30 Dec 2022 14:00:47


83 posted on 01/26/2023 9:26:23 AM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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To: montag813

BFL


84 posted on 01/26/2023 9:26:41 AM PST by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: montag813

Back in the 1950s a flock if starlings brought down a passenger jet. In response, the Pratt and Whitney engine plant in East Hartford CT developed an air cannon chambered for 3-4lb chickens used to shoot birds into engines as part of quality control.

As a concession to humane behavior the engineers grudging agreed to use dead chickens.


85 posted on 01/26/2023 9:34:32 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: muir_redwoods

Possible urban legend:

They sold a chicken gun to British Railways, for testing the windscreen on a new high-speed train. Railways were alarmed that the chicken penetrated the windscreen, the engineer’s seat, and a couple of bulkheads behind. They asked for help, and after explaining their entire test protocol were advised to thaw the chicken first.


86 posted on 01/26/2023 9:39:47 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: montag813

So how do they clean up the er... mess?


87 posted on 01/26/2023 9:39:54 AM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: EVO X

Good point about COVID and vax. What industry has not had labor shortages and high turnover?


88 posted on 01/26/2023 9:41:14 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Once you get people to believe that a plural pronoun is singular, they'll believe anything - nicollo)
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To: Gay State Conservative

....Indeed....! yes, not sure if it is still around (the internet is FOREVER...!) but it was a sailor getting ready to launch an A-6 if I recall, and he got sucked into the aircraft’s port (left, for you land-lubbers...) running engine. The engine immediately FODded out (FOD - Foreign Object Damage...) when his flashlight and I think his protective helmet went into the engine...he crawled out, by some grace of God, thankfully alive but shaken....probably needed a skivvies change after that....


89 posted on 01/26/2023 9:52:06 AM PST by TokarevM57 (u)
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To: montag813

Some people just don’t think that rules apply to them. Some learn the hard way that they do.


90 posted on 01/26/2023 9:53:24 AM PST by LizzieD
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To: Sequoyah101
"After all the warnings my inclination is she was leaving a law suit for her family. Or at least she thought she was."

As a business owner it has been my judgement that 2 workers I had hired were intentionally trying to get hurt to claim workman's comp and disability.

Thank God for Fire at Will laws that most states have is all I can say. Once I came to that conclusion I immediately let them go with no reason given. It has become so prevalent now to get permanent disability on the jobsite my insurance company hosts webinars to look for the signs of it.

91 posted on 01/26/2023 9:56:51 AM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: LizzieD
Some people just don’t think that rules apply to them. Some learn the hard way that they do.

I deal with people who are completely self-absorbed and abhor anyone who tries to tell them anything, even if it's for their own safety.

Logic, reason, and facts only set them off even worse. They'll get up in people's faces and accuse of them of anything they can think of to get the person to stop telling them what they don't want hear.

They're a dangerous liability since too many situations depend on knowing what to do and when to do it, and they just won't listen.

92 posted on 01/26/2023 10:04:22 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Clay Moore

It seems like a supervisor would have relieved her of duties before she had the chance to try it a second time.

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Only if the supervisor was black also. Otherwise he’d be brought up on racism charges.


93 posted on 01/26/2023 10:43:31 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Donald Trump is a setting sun. Ron DeSantis is a rising star.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

As a former Aviation Boatswain Mate Handler. The NAVY brings him back ever now and then to brief all flight deckers on the dangers of working in and around aircraft on the flight deck.


94 posted on 01/26/2023 10:54:12 AM PST by Trueblackman (I would rather stick my head up my a** & walk down an Interstate off ramp than believe Biden.)
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To: montag813

95 posted on 01/26/2023 10:59:36 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how thery control you. )
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To: Trueblackman

Yes,I’ve watched many flight deck videos (it keeps me off the streets!) and I’ve heard several men make it very clear that a Navy carrier deck is a very,very dangerous place. I remember one guy saying something like “you always have to be looking all around because what was safe 5 seconds ago isn’t safe now”.


96 posted on 01/26/2023 11:00:50 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (No Doubt Now: Stolen Election)
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To: montag813

If you fell asleep and woke up at DFW you would think you landed in Mogadishu. The staffing there is, disconcerting. I have no doubt she was a trouble employee who “ain’t got time fo dat” when it came to safety and her supervisors just gave up even trying to deal with her.


97 posted on 01/26/2023 11:37:28 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: T.B. Yoits

[I deal with people who are completely self-absorbed and abhor anyone who tries to tell them anything, even if it’s for their own safety.

Logic, reason, and facts only set them off even worse. They’ll get up in people’s faces and accuse of them of anything they can think of to get the person to stop telling them what they don’t want hear.]

Oh I am familiar with this attitude quite well.


98 posted on 01/26/2023 11:32:59 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Sequoyah101
...No matter, American will settle if they can and in the right or not will have to pay her estate. They simply can’t risk jury trial of a poor black woman in Alabama by a jury of her “peers”...

The luggage handlers likely worked for an independent company, a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) or a Women's Business Enterprise (WBE), that was created to get priority in the bidding on airport contracts.

99 posted on 01/27/2023 6:23:15 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: montag813

Another reason I prefer not to fly.

These are dangerous jobs being done by the lowest bidder, while I might get selected for a pat down screen.


100 posted on 01/27/2023 12:42:10 PM PST by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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