Southwest Boeing B737 Strikes a man as it lands at Austin International 

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Probably highly-traumatic for the crew.

Everyone deplaning had to walk past that dent in the cowling.

Thanks for keeping us updated. What a sad day for all involved. :(

@@adriansrealm Depends on which side.

No shit

Who is putting this on their record?

@@culdeus9559 This would be classified as an accident on their pilot records, meaning they'd have to disclose it on future applications or in interviews. Hopefully it shouldn't cause them too much issues though due to the circumstances.

Easy guys, you’re making a mountain out of a molehill.

Dang that's crazy but I don't remember asking

Joshua Casey we'll see if you can live a week without cops

I agree with MSC, the next crime you witness, you know who you’re instinctively going to call for? The police. And why would murdering ALL police officers solve anything?

Joshua Casey bet you’re the same type of person who complains about generalisation in regards to race jfc

Nah the pilot will be pissed that they are stuck in Austin....but worrying about stupid people is a waste of energy. Ive seen a few fatalities in skydiving, only one bothered me ...a student jumper. The rest all had over 1000 jumps and generally knew the risks. The pilot might be bnbothered if he thinks there was something he could have done differently. Very doubtful in this case.

Conrad McDougall I feel sorry for you friend if you choose a “permanent” solution for a temporary problem! Choose wisely as that may not be your best solution. There are always other options, you may just be blind to them now as your focus is fixated on your problems.

You picked someone up that was on the flight? I thought Southwest was only running cargo currently due to Covid.

And they didnt do a go around after they hit this person they stoped and taxied

Idk where you got that info. Yes they’re flying people. Also the flight originated from Southwests hub. Why flight cargo 200 miles on a 738

They didn’t go around. What are you talking about?

Collin _ I read it in an article a few weeks back. A lot of cargo is flown even less than 200 miles. UPS flies MD-11s on short hops, so a 737 isn’t out of reason.

I came here to comment the same. He sounded in a really positive place, enjoying his day! Sad all around.

Good observation

Was about to comment the same thing. It's always sad having such a thing happen to you. Even when you have no responsibility over the situation and the outcome. I hope he sees the situation under this light.

And even a car isn't a guaranteed situation where you can avoid. Sometimes fate is fate and there's nothing can be done except move along the timeline, and try to not dwell, because it's completely not your fault.

While it's not confirmed yet, it looks like it was likely suicide. I understand that people can be going through some rough times and decide that they need to end it, it sucks, and no one should have to go through that, but killing yourself in a way that gets others involved is just a douche move. Jumping in front of a car/train/plane, you're going to ruin their day and possibly their life, it's hard to overcome the thoughts that you may have killed someone, even if you know you couldn't do anything to stop it.

it could also be a stupid man doing mindless challenges, but I hope not.

or drugs or alcohol or mental illness

Play stupid games....win stupid prizes. If it was a suicide by plane he wanted.... Well done sir. You left this airline pilot with nightmares for the rest of his life. You selfish pr1ck.

B O B Spelled backwards CNN tells more truths than OAN / fox “news”

@B O B Spelled backwards cnn breaking news: person gets hit by plane, dies of corona virus.

I would also add that 3,000 lb cars at 30-70 mph are much easier to swerve in than 130,000 lb 737s at 140 mph, which also have much higher CoG and tires that are not meant for steering above taxi speeds on the ground. The car also doesn't have wings filled with fuel that stick out 59 ft from the centerline on each side that risk hitting the ground when swerving.

For sure

Stfu

Bootzey chill Karen

"Hitting a person is not different than hitting a deer". Uh, yeah, one is a deer and the other is a fellow human being. It's impossible to overstate how different those things are, in particular to a driver or a pilot. One is sad, the other is something you'll bear for the rest of your life. Your original comment is at best ignorant.

The ATC knew exactly what was going on - they both understood each other.

I’ve gotten a few phone numbers for various situations, never for a violation though. Usually it’s just an operational question.

At least THIS time, it was just to exchange information and NOT to get lectured.

You could tell that ATC really felt badly for the pilot too, just by his tone.

260 kJ of kinetic energy for a 85 kg object impacting an aircraft travelling at 175 mph ... all in a fraction of a second.

You'd be amazed how many people suicide by train etc. They do not publicize very much on purpose to avoid encouraging others.

@R Cruz If it weren't for COVID this would have been all over the news. That's all she's saying. Why are you acting like she's arrogant??

Pausing off the runway allowed them to talk to tower about the man. Pilots just don't get out of passenger jets.

Mightymite I think he meant check the instruments for the engine and gear indications

chadpm11 if he did it by train he would not have put everyone at risk

@@nottelling8129 ppl committing suicide do not care and do not think about other people including family, only their selfish reasons to off themselves

If no bits of him went through the engine, it may be fine. I work in jet engine certification; the nacelle/cowling was damaged, those are supplied by the airframe builder.

The damage is mostly cosmetic, some sheet metal work and a new cowling will do the job.

Blunt-force trauma

most tracks don't have fences

Well, perhaps they did not think about the plane :) Just as motorists try to squeeze before a train on intersection, sometimes avoiding the means to stop them, or how in my city we have teens riding on top of metro trains on the ground level section, and get killed by a bridge the metro goes under every couple of years.

yeah pretty rare at least in NA(can't speak for other regions), and pretty hard to get anywhere near a runway but if you're desperate enough then anything is possible.. most airports do perimeter fence checks every couple hours 24h a day..

Well, if one wants a fence can be scaled, even if there are barbed wires or something, so a hole is just a convenience.

Putting on my BlackHat, I can think of a number of things I could do to cause a great deal of harm. Security is a lot more than just groping the passengers.

It boils down to this, fear and panic cost lives. The pilot of United 811 summed it up best, while trying to land a horribly damaged 747, with a huge hole in the side and 2 engines gone. He recalled that at some point in it all he remembered thinking how upset his daughter would be if he didn't come home, but concluded he can think about that latter he had a job to do right now. If he had allowed himself to dwell on things like that that aircraft likely would be at the bottom of the Pacific right now, instead it returned to Hawaii and made a safe landing because of his level headed decision making.

Its not that hard to tell based on the fact that planes try to land in the landing zones but also he must have know abit about aviation

I very much doubt the pilots "witnessed" anything other than the Captain perhaps being aware of a momentary blur off his left side. From the pilot seat of just about any airliner you cannot even see the wingtip, let alone the engine, which is why we had to go back and look out a passenger window if we ever wanted to actually check for damage, etc. They might have felt a bump, but the only people who were in a position to actually see anything as it happened were any passengers who happened to be sitting by a left side window (which happened to have the shade up - many do not) . There was no provision for compensation at the airline I worked for in this kind of situation, although there have been cases in the past where a special compensation was made after a particularly brilliant piece of piloting - the only such incident I know of was mentioned in one of Robert Serling's non-fiction books about aviation safety and occurred way back in the 50's or early 60's. There have been other cases which obviously warranted a gesture of that sort - miracle on the Hudson comes to mind - but I don't know if anything was forthcoming from the airline itself.

Theres a lot of things on an aircraft that aren't that easy to damage, and you figure a average 170ish pound adult male being hit by something doing 150+ MPH and its going to make a dent.

Just yesterday at 8:10 pm Central

Amazingly theres no bloody skid mark down the side.

Rumor has it the man with no I.D. on him had just voted and was wearing a Biden/Harris T-shirt.

Going 150 miles pr hr at 3000 feet and decreasing with several tones of metal. The pilot most likely has no chance spotting the person before it where too late

the plane was touching down when it hit, nose was higher

You'd know all about legitimate suicides wouldn't you?

I'm bringing it back, Epstein didn't kill himself

Jeffery Epstein proof that Epstein didn’t kill himself

Depends on the landing weight. Between 125-150 knots if there’s no wind

Ouch.

Typically around 140 knots on short final. Seems like he was hit shortly after touchdown though so like everyone else said probably closer to 120 knots at the time of impact

Trenton Pottruff, Man, I’ve seen a body get hit by a car at about 35-40 and it was like a bag of rags tumbling down the road. This must have been like a bug on the windshield.

Yes Mr MAGA hat, it is someone else's fault.

Most certainly not on an active runway. Most likely someone with security clearance onto the ramp area knowingly breaking rules. (Suicide)

Probably a bloater, my sister in law woulda tore that engine and the wing clean off....

@@theravedaddy I know what your thinkin' " was that six pies or only five? In all the excitement I kinda lost count myself"!

737 has a typical landing speed of 170+mph. Engine cowling is only aluminum. Average adult male is 191lbs (assuming it was a male). Put it all together and there could be considerable damage to the engine upon impact.

@R Cruz I would not bet money on "no feelings of guilt" in this situation

@R Cruz yeah, I'm not betting on it

I had a cokehead step in front of my car going 30, in darkness, and I had to lock up (no anti-lock) and skid violently to a stop, just short of her. The cokehead didn't even flinch. Probably even took $100 of life off my tires even, but the bigger point is my own needless trauma, which I would have carried through life, and only by the luck of superhuman reflexes as my mind first went to denial, and my extreme physical response to locking it up, did I prevent a permanent horror for myself -- and for her. Didn't even flinch. She probably didn't live another two weeks anyway for numerous reasons, her and the cokeheads hanging around cars parked in the road in the night; and I'm sorry to say, that we're better off if that happened -- hopefully not scarring innocent passerbys before they went to heaven.

It was a low act. I feel sorry for the chaps that picked up brain matter off the runway, the mechanics that have to find human hair in the engine parts they now have to now do X-ray crack testing on, the passenger in seat 23A that had an eye ball suddenly stick to their window...etc

You know what i would actually believe it if the family of the deceased would sue the pilot

@Alba Gu Bràth Your comment doesn´t make sense. He´s gonna know even if you personally don´t hear his reaction.

Then his voice tone changes on touchdown

@Malcolm Reynolds They are NOT rich. They spend many years barely making enough to survive. They don't make decent money until the end of their careers. At that point they are at the age where a medical issue can quickly end their career just as the years of sacrifice are just beginning to pay off.

@Malcolm Reynolds I guess you are an expert since you know someone in debt for an over priced Toyota, and you are jealous. Please enlighten those of us who actually ARE pilots.

Malcolm Reynolds - Classic “Karen” move. “I know this and that”. Please, not everyone is the same. Get that out of your thick head.

What a strange incident. Good thing it didn’t end in a nasty way tho

Theyre lucky they didnt become no-heads.

I hope you took them bowling.

Never a dull moment in the 6! Lmao!

bet a $1000 it wasn't 33L #mostexpensivetaxiway

Yup they know where his engines are and likely heard the impact or knew they ran him over with the wheels or hit him with the aircraft

If he stopped on the taxiway instead of going all the way to the gate as directed then he was suspicious and wanted to consider the issue first at least. It doesn't sound like he knew he hit anyone or he would have likely called the emergency trucks out to take a look. I doubt he could have seen the damage from his vantage point and once he saw the engine gauges were normal then he felt comfortable continuing the taxi. Otherwise he would have shut that engine down immediately.

@@blusheep2 he likely was hoping maybe they missed him but you can hear it after he advises hes going to the taxiway he knew where he saw that person it likely was a not good outcome The wing flaps at 40 wheels and engine are all at head height or below

You can't hear it over the sound proofing and engines.

john leininger By that time he probably would have been alerted by cabin crew who witnessed the impact or were informed by a passenger.

Not as bad as you'd think. The skin is pretty good at keeping stuff inside for the most part. I've had people who jumped from 30 stories up who looked pretty normal and had a guy who was crushed by a large forklift -- never would have guessed because he looked relatively uninjured. If this guy was pulled into the turbines then, yes, you'd be right. It'd be really gross.

picked up with a shovel and bucket

@@Lord_and_Savior_Gay_Jesus Can't really compared this accident to jumpers, the force on impact for jumpers is spread out on a large area of the body while hitting a metal airplane nacelle with sharp edges & riveted metal plates at 120 knots will cut through a body like a knife. I've seen animals & individuals being hit head on by a train at half the speed of this aircraft & it's basically just blood & some meat left

@@Lord_and_Savior_Gay_Jesus he got hit just after touch down where the plane still has a high speed. I've seen a person get hit by a train at 180kmh. She didn't go under the wheels but was splattered. There were bits of here all over the place. The day after they still found parts of her like a 5cm^2 piece of her skull with scalp still on it...

​@@Lord_and_Savior_Gay_Jesus I used to be a State Trooper and saw people get hit by cars and trucks on the interstate all the time. Your skin won't hold together when thousands of pounds of vehicle slam into you at speed. Every once in a while you'd be surprised but most of the time it was just complete carnage. Although looking at the damage... who knows. Kind of a sideswipe sort of motion rather than square impact.

I imagine you got a little "used" to it but, the first couple of times must have been terrible.

I had a neighbor who has told me that every time he sees somebody crossing illegally he would speed up the train and right before he hits them he would apply the brakes as if he saw them in the last moment to stop any investigations against him. After killing 10 people or so he eventually got caught and fined and related to yard duty but man he was a damn psycho lol.

@@georgigoranov4445 HahahahH wow

@@georgigoranov4445 holy shit lmao

@@georgigoranov4445 why though

Been a train engineer for 10 years. I had 3 suicide so far. You will never forget them. It can be hard. My first was a school girl. It even made national news because she was bullied in school and couldn't take it anymore. That shit hunts you But you can not blame yourself for that. My train was going over 200km/h and there is no way on earth you can stop in time. Same goes for these pilots. I just hope they got the professional help and counseling they need for an incident like this

@@jano979797 yep, the stopping distance of fully loaded trains is like a kilometre at least