whilst not strictly commercial aviation, there is a video on youtube of a US Navy Jet on a carrier which sucked a guy into the engine….it’s is a remarkable piece of footage and although he was battered and bruised he survived because his helmet got stuck. I think there was a documentary on him as well and that can be found on youtube also.
That is shown in ramp training, to little effect in my experience!
The aircraft was an A-6 Intruder and the guys helmet got stuck on some guide vanes in the air intake. There have been several surviors of ingestion BUT all the engines concerned had guide vanes in front of the engine.
I recently was informed the suction of a propeller plane is non existent. That cannot be true either right ? I mean a regular Cessna 150 has to have a meter or two where the suction occurs right ?
Too right!!!!!! A propeller moves air from in front of it , to behind it so there is suction in front of it. Go tell that to your friend QUICK!!!!
Oh, I have to correct my 737 safety zone figures. At idle the danger zone is seven feet from the front of the cowl. At any other throttle figure this increases to eighteen feet .
On a 747-400 the figures are nine feet at idle and thirteen feet at takeoff
On the GE90-110 as fitted to the 777-300ER the figures are fifteen feet at idle, twenty eight feet taxiing and SIXTYTHREE feet at takeoff! The GE90 would not even surge if it ingested you!
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