It’s a total coincidence that last night, we watched Clint Eastwood’s 2016 movie “Sully” with Tom Hanks about birds flying into jet engine near NYC. They landed the disabled jet in the Hudson River, but the movie concentrated more on the question if the decision to land in the Hudson instead of the airport was a wise decision by Sully. Based on a true story, it’s a great movie.
No video, didn’t happen.
Sorry, sad news.
They’re heartbroken but they still outsource to pay less.
Training, procedures, new staff, higher workload due to fewer staff?
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“Woke” hiring practices and programs are likely compromising safety in the airline industry. Especially dangerous in regard to flight crews and aircraft maintenance.
The airport will have to send a few firetrucks to hose down a large area of tarmac.
Second time this has happened in less than a year. One really has to pay attention when working the flight line.
"A Sailor Survived Getting Sucked into a Jet Engine During Operation Desert Storm"
Bridges' last check was making sure the aircraft was connected to the Roosevelt's catapult for takeoff. He checked out where the launching mechanism was and moved to back away from the Intruder, he began to walk forward, but didn't make it very far.
Not only was Bridges lifted off the flight deck, the intake ripped off his float coat, goggles, helmet and tools. They went into the engine first, causing a large explosion that likely saved his life."
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Another diversity hire?
as his head was pulled sideways by a strong wind, it was at the moment charlie looked up in time to see the warp speed spinning turbine blade 2 feet from his face.
if only he had taken his co-workers advice and not kept his head up his a$$ most of the time.
Yes, it is disturbing to see two incidents like this in a short period of time. It indicates a slackness in training and competency.
Truth is, it only takes one lapse of judgement to end up in an intake, dismembered by a prop, or blown down the flight deck or tarmac.
Just one lapse for one second.
When I was on the USS JFK in 1977 or 1978, we had a guy get sucked into the intake of a Tomcat. It was a classic example of this kind of accident. He was under the engine nacelle of the Tomcat and had a brain cramp.
He crab walked up to the front of the nacelle and stood up with his back to the engine.
In he went, supine, head first.
Fortunately for him, the pilot had his hand on the throttle in preparation for cutting the engine, and was looking right down at the intake and saw the guy go in.
He cut the throttle immediately, and that saved the guy’s life. I saw him taken off the ship via a COD the next day. They carried him out on a stretcher and put him in the COD.
I heard he lived, but he was a quadriplegic, apparently breaking his neck when he hit the engine.
A few days later, I saw a bunch of guys hanging around an engine on a stand in the hangar bay. It had been removed from the Tomcat, and it had huge, ragged, gaping holes in the side of it where the tools the guy had in his belt were sucked into the slowing engine and exited out the side of the case. It was quite a sight to see.
We see more and more complacent workers that do not follow safety training because they think the rules do not apply to them.
One cannot say if this worker was one of them.
That is really sad. These ground crews keep travel happening.
I wonder what went wrong with the safety measures
Prayers for the deceased
Who wants to bet it was a diversity hire?
That worker was obviously not paying attention. He probably thought the starboard engine was off.