Mechanic dies after being sucked into engine

This is dreadful and my heart goes out to his family.
As Whisky Delta says ramp workers do get complacient working aroud aircraft. Last year I had somebody walk behind a 767 and get blown over. He was O.K. but admitted he just forgot the hazard in a momentry laps in concentration. It was lucky he didn’t walk in front of the engine.
BTW the danger zone around the air intake on a 737-3/4/500 extends out about 7 feet at ground idle. To get to the engine to perform leak checks you either have to go outbord of it (the safest way and the only way I do it!). Or walk in with your shoulder touching the fuselage untill you are behind the engine. At anything above idle that area is inside the danger area.
If you want to see the safest area to be in when the engines, look out for the engineers, They are usually in their vans asleep!!!

Rgds Cking

Elgan, the only thing that could possibly be good in this is I imagine the guy felt very little pain. If the engine was run up enough to suck him in, it was probably all over pretty quickly. I guess things go wrong every now and then in any industry, but it’s still very sad to hear of things like this happening, and I can’t imagine what must be going through the minds of those unfortunate enough to see it happen 🙁

Very true Paul, sorry at the time i wrote that, i was a bit intoxicated :rolleyes:

Hopefully as you say, it was a quick death, but sad it had to happen

Very unfortunate. Sometimes I think that mechanics and rampers get a bit complacient around aircraft and forget what exactly they are dealing with. We had a ramper/station manager walk into the prop of an ATR in 1999. I’m sure he was so use to seeing/hearing the ATR engine running but the prop stopped thanks to the prop brake that without even thinking he walked through the prop arc. Unfortunately the prop wasn’t stopped that time.

Sad and painful way to go 🙁

Elgan, the only thing that could possibly be good in this is I imagine the guy felt very little pain. If the engine was run up enough to suck him in, it was probably all over pretty quickly. I guess things go wrong every now and then in any industry, but it’s still very sad to hear of things like this happening, and I can’t imagine what must be going through the minds of those unfortunate enough to see it happen 🙁

Paul

Sad and painful way to go 🙁

Reminds me of that Japanese ramp rat that decided he’d end it all with a GE90.

Sad, truely terrible.

Like you said that is terrible!!!

Imagine what those on the aircraft saw, they must be scared for life!

That’s terrible! Can’t get much worse than that really.