As ridiculous as this is, its probably based on a real event. A guy on an aircraft carrier got sucked into a jet engine and survived because his safety helmet went through the turbine first breaking the blades.
@@JamesSmith-ix5jdapparently I found out that you can survive a skydive by landing on your feet which will break many of the bones in your feet but may cause you to live because the lower half has no organs so that area doesn’t need to be protected to let you survive.
In order to survive a plane crash in that way, you would have to jump with the same amount the plane is falling. Let's say the plane is descending with a speed of -400m/s you'd have to jump at 400m/s. Good luck trying that
No shit we all watched the same thing no need to point it out how about getting a job so you can spend your time on something that can contribute to society.
As an aircraft mechanic, everything about the engine was off and the golf clubs wouldn't have stood achance in hell. The fan blades mounted by a couple of home depot bolts are the cherry on top.
Aircraft mechanic here. When I was in the Navy, they showed a “what not to do” Video of a guy on the flight deck standing up in front of the intake. He got sucked in, but his cranial.(helmet) got sucked in the Fodded out the engine. He ended up crawling out of the intake alive.
Yup, Safety briefs before deployment. The thing that scared me the worst was the guy trying to get a piece of paper on the flight deck.. C2 was turning to get into position, the kid got hit by the props.. He didn't make it.. Working on Jet Engines, and Props is very dangerous...
@@eldermillennial8330 oh yeah it will but if you know hardcore golfers their clubs getting ruined is a traumatic event for them. 😂. My friend golfs and I love him to death, he's my bestie but when he talks about golf I began to stare off into space. I do support him and am happy when he does good even if he doesn't win awards. I just find it very boring but it makes him happy so it makes me happy that he's happy.
how is no one in these comments mentioning the fact that the blades on the engines are thin metal sheets held on with 2 little screws meant to spin insane RPM's and some metal sticks stopping the thing in such a short time, in Europe we have some seriously bad shows, but this is just a joke
@@yoranbollue3300 would have to agree if those blades are spinning fast enough to pick you up off the ground there’s no way set a golf clubs are stopping them quick enough you are definitely going to die
To be fair - one guy you don't know Vs losing thousands of your hard earned money. The way insurance companies are nowadays, they'd probably class that as hand of god and not payout
Reinforced titanium blades of any commercial airliner are literally designed to have no flaws in the metal's construction, making them essentially indestructible (they can bend sure but snapping is virtually impossible). I highly doubt the mans golf clubs typically made of high density graphite, carbon fiber or steel, would stop the blades. The dude would've been instant slushie
Actually this *did* happen at least once. Some guy was working with... I think a fighter jet as it was preparing for takeoff, got too close to one of the engine intakes, and was sucked inside. By some miracle of math and physics, his helmet jammed up the engine a split-second before it could literally pulverize him. I'm probably getting some of the details wrong, but I'm sure if you Google it, you'll find the story I'm talking about.
There is no possible way, realistically for a guy to survive that. Even if the blades got interrupted he's still gonna die because it will take a moment for the blades to stop and in that moments he's getting torn apart These replies are a mix of people saying "its just a show" no shit its a show, you don't think i don't know that, and people adding on to my point.
@@CrazyGamer-xr2cufair enough, no airport worker is dumb enough to do this. They know where not to go and where they can go. Otherwise they find out the hard way. Or the messy way, in a case like this
As someone who has seen the end result of a incident like that...yea that engine ain't stopping fast enough, end result is being turned into minced meat, there is a reason why turbine engines have walk zones, at idle depending on the engine it can be 20-30ft in a cone Infront and 60-80ft at the exhaust. But yea tv drama stuff
Plane engines are actually very sensitive and very easy to damage, there was that one time on a US Airways Flight 1549 which happened on January 15, 2009. Captain Chesley Burnett "Sully" Sullenberger III was the pilot of that plane. While ascending a flock of birds flew straight into the engine causing it to stop working. Eventually they began to lose altitude and the plane was only gliding at that point forcing the pilot and co-pilot to attempt an emergency landing. They weren’t able to reach a runway so they decided to land in the Hudson River, New York City, USA. Although some were injured, all 155 passengers survived.
As a guy who's worked on Aircraft Engines for 8 years, the way the Fan Blades were setup and the way the emergency responder removed it like it was a christmas portrait was absolutely shocking. Fan Blades are made of Titanium and he would most likely be dismembered. And the Golf clubs wouldn't stop anything. Anyway, this is straight up fiction so yeah. Funny storyline though.
Nice explanation. I feel that the only reason the engine fans would be spinning is if the flight crew just shut down the engines. And thanks for what you’ve done as an aircraft mechanic, I feel that your work never gets acknowledged
What you mean we all just watched the gentleman make light work of it using the new Milwaukee impact available now at 249.99 Nothing but *Heavy* *Duty* ®️
I’m an F35 mechanic if you couldn’t tell by the name. Those blades can’t just be held up by 2-3 people, it’d require a crane or some sort of equipment to hold/lift it. Also, there’s more than 4-6 screws hold the fan mod of an aircraft engine together, and lastly there wouldn’t be emergency responders taking apart the engine, it’d more than likely be mechanics taking it apart or at least there’d be the guidance of mechanics. To add, I have never used power tools on any part of an aircraft, I’m not sure if airliner mechanics do or are allowed to but in the military we only have power tools for specialty back shops such as metal technicians or depot.
Fun fact, someone actually survived something like this in real life. A crewman named John Bridges on the USS Teddy Roosevelt got sucked into the engine of an A6 Intruder during the gulf war. If I recall correctly, his helmet flew off his head and managed to jam the blades before he was killed, but he was badly injured.
His helmet shattered the core and stalled the engine, fighter jet engine cores are high performance and fragile. These high bypass turbofans have very heavy strong blades made to be able to withstand impact of birds at cruise. So there's almost nothing they'll get stopped by, they eat ground equipment like nothing. Every time someone has been pulled into one there wasn't a piece of the body left bigger than 1cm.
@@bower31 The Engine wasn't stalled. Helmet and Flashlight FOD'd the Engine which cause an alarm in the cockpit. Pilot shut down the engine and then did they realize he was in there as he climbed out.
@@heavenly1053a couple golf clubs made of thin metal is not going to stop an entire plane engine.those engines make those blades spin so fast that it lifts a 100 ton plane off the ground for hundreds of miles with relative ease and yes I know a bird could break a engine but it's because the plane hit the bird going 500 mph
That same exact story happened in arguably one of the most famous cases. It was I think in the 90s on an aircraft carrier. One of the deck handlers’ hands got a little too close to the intake. It pulled him in like how a vacuum sucks up a tissue. What saved him was a flashlight that flew in before him and jammed the blades before he reached them. Guy made it out with only a few broken brines from what I recall. Thats a commercial get though, all the incidents of a guy surviving getting sucked in were either on military aircraft, or were grabbed before they could actually go in. I only know of one and it was a mechanic on a 737-200 who survived, as the guy claims. He didn’t provide any names or dates so your guess is as good as mine if he was telling the truth.
USS Theodore Roosevelt, 21-year-old flight deck crewman John Bridges, survived because he didnt fit through the intake duct. An intake on the A-6 Intruder isn't very big. 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 just inches from certain death as the engine fully shut down.
Quite frightening. However the flashlight did not "jam" the blades, the engine has way to much mass spinning way too fast. The flashlight destroyed the blades as it went through, and the blade fragments destroyed what was behind them, and so on
Engineer here. Those fan blades are no joke, they spin all day, every day at roughly 10,000 rpm. They are made from the most expensive alloys and tested to destruction. This means they test them with all types of foreign objects whilst running. Blocks of Ice, whole chickens, chucks of metal, all fired in during testing and they continue to run. I get it’s a show, but they would be hosing him off the tarmac. Assuming the engine was running at full throttle, again the air intake wouldn’t be enough to *suck him off* his feet into the engine. That’s not how physics works… a running engine near personal is not how safely regulations work… just a brain dead show 🤦♂️
The vacuum definitely is enough to suck someone off their feet at full throttle while standing on the brakes. The chickens are usually frozen, so the block of ice IS the chicken, lol.
Actually they can be! Former ramp agent here. It's called a gate start, and is only done when absolutely necessary (due to inoperative apu, thus needing some external air starter unit to provide the pressure necessary to start one engine. This is only done immediately preceeding pushback though). In the case of this scene, the plane was being marshaled into the gate and hadn't shut down yet: you can see the marshal with two wands guiding the plane in (hes the one that got hit by the tug)
@@issacsmith3169 Fun fact, the engines are mounted on a zone of an airplane that is not highly visible. Plus I don't think a pilot would think that anybody is that stupid to not have the common knowledge that an airplane engine sucks air in.
As im not the first mechanic here i will keep it short. De blades slide in a grove, yes they in place by a few bolts but the grove keeps them from flying out. The fan blade/ section is heavy enough to rip the entire compressor to shreds when spinning idle. The clubs would do a lot of damage but definetly not stop the engine. It would most likely slow down because of the destroyed inners.
I only work low bypass so it might be different, but the fan spins independent from the core so it can't just twist and tear the engine apart. but once it starts sucking in metal I imagine the core blades would stop compressing enough or they would just explode/blow out the exhaust
@@maynarddrivmester2224 From what i recall, most turbo fans have 2 shafts. A low and high pressure one. The low is connected to the fan and some additional compressor stages and high is only high pressure compressor.
I remember watching a documentary about Jet Engines and their safety measures for incidents such as animals/humans getting sucked into them, for one, it's virtually impossible for a human to be sucked off the ground and into one, they'd have to be quite literally directly in front of it or very near, this guy was very far away, secondly, they have a safety measure installed into them which on contact of an intake blade, the blade is designed to break into pieces and immediately jam the front prop, preventing the large object from sustaining further damage and preventing internal damage to the engine. He would've gotten messed up for sure, like broken bones and potentially skin, but he wouldn't have been minced like people expect. He still would've experienced a pulling sensation into the engine, but not even remotely as much as this front prop produces.
No. The vacuum from a large turbofan can pull large objects into it. The blades are designed specifically to NOT break, and stay in one piece. They are designed to take a LOT of hits and keep flying. We're talking commercial airliners here, bud. Go watch some real Pratt & Whitney test videos.
I'm pretty sure golf clubs don't have the power to stop a plane engine from moving, even if they did the turbines were still spinning at pretty much max speed before he got sucked in
*-this actually happened when Continental airlines flight 1515 had to be inspected and a mechanic (Donald Gene Buchanan)was inspecting it but then the engines turned up and he got sucked in and then he died,this happened on January 16,2006-*
The inlet hazard zones are marked on the plane for a reason. You cannot go near a plane that’s got its beacons on and this is why! Planes make their own way to the gate and as such, the engines are live.
Live, loud, and scary to be next to! Ramp agent was the best job.. I still don't understand how accidents like this happen in real life 😢 happened recently too, Dec 31, 2022, Courtney edwards. RIP.
I was a fueler. I saw a ramp agent almost get sucked into an engine. She got too close, and you could see her hair stretching out, and she started leaning back. Fortunately, the engine was spooling down, so it slowed enough to release her before she got pureed.
@@solarsolid idk, one of my favorite shows tho. but if u didnt know some of its earliest emergencies are based off real things that happned. so they say
@MikeZ-yt it's more so the science and jargon in the show is almost always wrong. Sometimes so wrong it's actually a danger, they should put disclaimers "never do this in real life!"
@@wesleyfuccaro8821Well, sure I guess. They don't pull a dumbass from the engine though, they just write a report. You wouldn't see anyone from the NTSB for hours or days after an accident like that.
Y’all remember the dude that had a mental illness, they wouldn’t let him on his flight and left him alone in the terminal. He managed to get out during his medical episode and got sucked into a 737 engine? He was found still alive and conscious. He died soon after.
No but i remember the story about the guy who went insane, woke up, beat the shit out of his good friend while he was asleep then jumped the fence and ran naked across the tarmac and then jumped head first into an airplane engine........He didn't make it
@@Haywood-J-Ablomie yea he was like 20 on a trip in Europe and he was known to have manic episodes, but while in Europe he couldn't get his medication that he needed
