Author Topic: Flight Mechanics, be careful out there... (Read 254 times)

Ripsnort · « **on:** January 16, 2006, 07:17:09 PM »

FM sucked into a 737 engine...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/16/airplane.fatality/index.html

RAIDER14 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 16, 2006, 11:10:46 PM »

here is the link to the local news

http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/6157369/detail.html

B@tfinkV · « **Reply #2 on:** January 16, 2006, 11:14:54 PM »

anyone ever see that footage of a guy being sucked through, and spat out of a fighter jet air intake?

some how he survived too.

RAIDER14 · « **Reply #3 on:** January 16, 2006, 11:21:06 PM »

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Originally posted by B@tfinkV
anyone ever see that footage of a guy being sucked through, and spat out of a fighter jet air intake?

some how he survived too.

He didn't get spat out his head hit the nose cone of the fighter engine and the pilot shut the engine down which saved his life

B@tfinkV keep on topic please

Golfer · « **Reply #4 on:** January 17, 2006, 12:17:59 AM »

Didn't realize the A-6 was a fighter. Didn't realize the film of him being thrown out the back was really him not being thrown out the back either.

WilldCrd · « **Reply #5 on:** January 17, 2006, 12:50:25 AM »

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Originally posted by Golfer
Didn't realize the A-6 was a fighter. Didn't realize the film of him being thrown out the back was really him not being thrown out the back either.

well said