Texas airport runway worker dies after being sucked into plane engine

[turbinetree]

By Sarah K. Burris
Published June 25, 2023, 2:46 PM ET

A San Antonio airport worker for Delta Airlines who was sucked into a jet engine late Friday has succumbed to his injuries.

The Guardian reported Sunday that it seemed the worker “intentionally stepped in front of the live engine” on the jet. Police said that they are investigating whether it was an intentional action.

The plane had just arrived from Los Angeles and was taxiing to the arrival gate when the personstepped in front of the engine, said National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in a statement.

https://www.rawstory.com/delta-airlines-ground-crew-killed

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There is a reason why there is a strip located on the fuselage of an aircraft near the engine inlet and on the inlet cowl of a engine....and there is a reason why there looks like a swirl on the inlet cone of the turbine shaft that everyone sees spinning around ......it shows rotational direction of the engine....there is also the simple fact that the inlet pressure at sea level for a aircraft engine and the what the EPR setting is around 14 PSI per square inch and if he was just trying to see how close he could get well he didn't quite make it ....where did this person sign off on seeing the video prior to going out on an active taxi way that said watch what a engine can do ...did Unifi Aviation......have this in the training class.......

My required training film that I had to take prior to being on the AOA

and then there is this oldie.....and he lived

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

1. happened to a young women last year, by accident. This was suicide?

[prodigitalson]

2. injuries

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_body_disruption

maybe

[Ocelot II]

3. Jeez, that would be like falling into a giant Cuisinart!

If it was suicide I can think of a lot less horrible, messy ways to do it.

[PJMcK]

5. Jet engines are really powerful and dangerous

Anyone standing behind one is foolish. In front of one is suicidal.

If the engines are powerful enough to get a plane off the ground, they’re too dangerous to mess around with!

[turbinetree]

7. We put inlet screens in front of the engines if we were doing a run at the gate at ground idle

if we had one available or we stood out in front of the engine depending on the size of the inlet to make sure no one would walk behind or in front, when the red anti-collision light was on that was a way to tell everyone that a engine was running....that was standard operating procedure......

[Snooper9]

6. "succumbed to his injuries" WTF

How is that not instant fucking death? Did he have a really big bootie and get stuck or what?

[turbinetree]

8. The helmet saved his life in the carrier incident and the quick reaction of the pilot shutting

down the engine during the flame-out