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Trevor Jones wrote:

Gunner wrote:

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 18:22:06 -0500, "ggg" wrote:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/16/air...ity/index.html

If you google around a bit..there is a video out there of a navy deck
ape getting sucked into a Tomcat (IRRC)

The surprising thing is he lived with nothing much worse than a broken
arm and so forth. Nasty flameout when it happened though

Gunner


Either an A-6 or an EA-6B

Night launch, the checkout guy (a new guy was being qualified as part
of the launch crew) went in to insure that the launch gear was properly
engaged, and the marshaller had already seen that the stuff had been
checked, so signaled the pilot to power up for launch. When the checkout
guy approached, gravity ceased to hold him on the deck. His cranial went
through the engine, his life preserver caught on the inlet air probes in
the intake.

The fireworks of the cranial going through the engine scrubbed the
launch, a couple seconds after the engine shut down, the lucky(?) guy
wiggled out of the intake and fell onto the deck.

A couple broken collarbones and a mother of a hickey to show for the
ride.

It was dark. Nobody knew what really happened until the NVG deck camera
was reviewed.

The film footage featured prominantly in a flight safety breifing a few
years ago, including much discussion about the benefits of communicating
ones intentions when planning to deviate from the normal tempo of an
operation.

I have spent a very little time in fromnt of a Prowler with the engines
running. Those are damn big intakes. Nothing on par with the big
commercial jets, but big. And the commercial guys rarely have much
business that requires them to walk near the intakes.

Cheers
Trevor Jones

What does "cranial" mean in this context? I though you were saying that
his HEAD went through the engine.

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Ted Bennett