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only in Texas: Mechanic sucked into jet engine
Well all i can say is i'm happy this got out employee satisfaction at
airports would probably drop a lot if pressure washing the salsa groundbeef mix that used to be Joe off the tarmac becomes common Jim E wrote: "Roy" wrote in message ... I don't know about the Tom Cat, but a lot of aircraft have a generatore and CSD mounted directly on the front of the engine and driven off the main compressor shaft.....Then they have a strut or two through which wires and hyrdraulic lines are routed.....from the CSD/GEN to outside the inlet portion of the airframe....Even if you were not killed, I could imagine just getting sucked into the air inlet and getting hung up on that CSD/GEN would be quite an experience. I know that while a person does not normally "go through" the engine per se, there is enough suction that makes breathing impossible.. Pics and reports I have seen of USAF incidents usually had suffocation listed as the main cause of death.....and most injuries were generally listed as minor or non-life threatening....most actual injuries listed were things like missing or mashed up fingers, feet, elbows etc......lots of bruiseing and lacerations if they happened to hit any pitot devices that are typically mounted in the intakes..... Sounds as though the modern commercial engines with the huge exposed front fans would be a bigger hazard than military stuff, as far as making a real mess is concerned. Jim E Jim E |
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