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Title: Flight Mechanics, be careful out there...
Post by: 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

Title: Flight Mechanics, be careful out there...
Post by: RAIDER14 on January 16, 2006, 11:10:46 PM

here is the link to the local news

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

Title: Flight Mechanics, be careful out there...
Post by: B@tfinkV 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.

Title: Flight Mechanics, be careful out there...
Post by: RAIDER14 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

Title: Flight Mechanics, be careful out there...
Post by: Golfer 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.

Title: Flight Mechanics, be careful out there...
Post by: WilldCrd 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