I wonder what that would do to a human :hmmm:

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Not always:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jxcSY1AwrM

@SS

How could he possibly have survived that? There are this blades in a jet engine that are compressing the air. He should have been chopped to pieces by them.:o

Here's a vid with a press conference with the guy who was sucked in, alive and kicking, abit battered but alive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF3Iz7b95-8

I believe that guy was sucked into but not through the A6 engine. His clothing may have gone through, but I seriously doubt any human can go through the compressor assembly and survive.

Some people are just lucky, I guess.

Maybe when he hit the first set, some blades were knocked loose and tore the engine apart before he... well...

Looks like he was holding something, his arm stretched out... maybe that caused it to desintegrate.

*According to that video Dowly posted, the guy got stuck in the intake and his helmet got sucked further in, wrecking the engine.

So when objects enter the engines, do they automatically shut down? Or does the pilot still have to turn off the fuel, etc. going to that engine?

I suspect the pilot has to do it.

What a lucky escape :o

Depends on how much damage it does to the blades. A small screw or bolt might go through, damaging some of the blades, and until power is increased, the pilot might not even know anything happened. When power is increased though, the engine might "compressor stall"-airflow is disrupted in the engine and it will make some pretty loud bangs, depending on the severity, which may cause damage as well if severe enough.

One of the airplanes I work on had a bird go partially into one engine and the crew never knew it until they got back and we saw the remains on the inlet lip and fan blades. Thankfully, there was no damage to the engine.
:)

Yea, that guy was lucky he didnt get sucked in to that engine.:yep:

True story.

A friend of mine whom served in Vietnam (no not John Kerry) as a flight line monkey. They would get really bored in the back area without much to do

So they would tape nuts and bolts into the engine intakes. They would stay there untill the turbines would wind up and kerakattaclang bang.

Now they had something to do :rotfl:

Did I mention he was nuts? :doh:

As to the video I think the vectoring blades (stationiary blades that 'guide' air into the turbines) saved his life. That and the fact he went in head first and was wearing a helmit.