It happens more than one might think. There is a chance that an aircraft worker can get swept up into a jet engine intake.
An Air India service engineer was the one who had it. The same thing happened to a New Zealand engineer.
A sailor almost died during Desert Storm. John Bridges, a flight deck crewman, was pulled into the aircraft's jet engine intake as he prepared an A6E Intruder for takeoff.
He was the only one to survive.
The Theodore Roosevelt was deployed to the Persian Gulf in 1991.
Bridges and McDonald were working on the flight deck. They completed a pre-takeoff check of an A6E Intruder at 3:41 a.m.
The aircraft had to be connected to the Roosevelt's catapult for takeoff. He moved away from the Intruder after checking out where the launching mechanism was.
Bridges' float coat, goggles, helmet and tools were ripped off when he was lifted off the flight deck. The explosion that probably saved his life was caused by them going into the engine first.
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If something other than air goes into the jet engine turbine, it would be fine immediately.
The titanium blades are spinning fast. It's a giant food processor if there are more than one set of blades.
The blades aren't designed to handle the physical stress of cutting up large amounts of food.
The fan blades were torn up by the tools and gear that came in. His helmet saved his life even though it was shredded.
It took three minutes for the engines to shut down after the pilot felt the damage. Bridges had a lucky break in this freak accident because of the engine size.
The intake on the A 6 Intruder is small. As Bridges was sucked in, he was able to stretch out his arm and wedge himself on the bullet of the blades and the wall of the intake, holding himself close to death.
When it was safe to help Bridges, his fellow sailors helped him down. He walked away from the incident with a broken collarbone, a blow to the ear, and cuts and scratches. Bridges did not come back to the flight deck for a while, according to a sailor who was on the ship at the time.
The person can be contacted at blake.stilwell@military.com. He can be reached on social media.
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