Air India worker dies at Mumbai airport after being sucked into jet's engine : A technician working - Polidicks

[b]Air India worker dies at Mumbai airport after being sucked into jet's engine[/b] Via [url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/17/air-india-worker-dies-at-mumbai-airport-after-being-sucked-into-jets-engine]The Guardian[/url] _________________________ [quote][img]http://i.imgur.com/E2mu0tp.jpg[/img] [i]The Air India jet was pushing back for takeoff at Mumbai airport when the technician was sucked into an engine.[/i] - - - A technician working for Air India has died after being sucked into a jet engine as the plane pushed back for takeoff at Mumbai airport. The accident took place on Wednesday evening when the co-pilot of flight AI 619 to Hyderabad in India’s south mistook a signal from ground staff and started the engine. It sucked in Ravi Subramanian, who was standing close by, the Press Trust of India reported, quoting anonymous sources at Air India, the national carrier. The plane was full of passengers at the time. The airline wrote on its official Twitter account that one of its technicians had “died in a mishap during pushback of flight AI 619”, without specifying exactly what happened. “The incident is being investigated. Our heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family,” said the tweet.[/quote] Damn, what an awful way to go. [editline]17th December 2015[/editline] For the morbidly curious out there, you may or may not remember some old-ish pics about a similar incident some time ago... yeah, it looks like what you'd expect. :/

While I'm not trying to play down the terror of being sucked into a jet engine, wouldn't you immediately die? Or would you last a while being torn to shreds within different compartments of the engine? I always figured it would be pretty much instant.

[QUOTE=wauterboi;49335554]While I'm not trying to play down the terror of being sucked into a jet engine, wouldn't you immediately die? Or would you last a while being torn to shreds within different compartments of the engine? I always figured it would be pretty much instant.[/QUOTE] Having seen photos of a similar accident, it's pretty much like a large blender. Instantaneous death, thankfully. Unfortunate for passengers who look out the window and witness it, though.

I think that honestly, the dread of realising that the engine is getting turned on would be awful enough, even if you never feel the pain of dying.

Yeah that split second of being lifted completely off the ground would ultimately be the single most excruciating moment of your life; despite no pain being involved.

[QUOTE=wauterboi;49335554]While I'm not trying to play down the terror of being sucked into a jet engine, wouldn't you immediately die? Or would you last a while being torn to shreds within different compartments of the engine? I always figured it would be pretty much instant.[/QUOTE] It depends on the engine type too, there have been cases where people have been sucked into an engine and spat out alive, the other side with minimal injuries. Other times, like this one, you basically get turned to mulch in a very short period of time and ejected from the back like a giant Party Popper full of meat.

[QUOTE=Kahgarak;49335574]Having seen photos of a similar accident, it's pretty much like a large blender. Instantaneous death, thankfully. Unfortunate for passengers who look out the window and witness it, though.[/QUOTE] I'd still say it's pretty unfortunate for the guy that [I]doesn't exist anymore[/I] as well.

I'm not sure how he got sucked in, it's not exactly hard to notice a jet engine starting up and they take a fair bit of time to spool up, maybe if he was wearing earmuffs and not paying attention. Then again this being India it's not that surprising.

[QUOTE=wauterboi;49335554]While I'm not trying to play down the terror of being sucked into a jet engine, wouldn't you immediately die? Or would you last a while being torn to shreds within different compartments of the engine? I always figured it would be pretty much instant.[/QUOTE] There's a big risk of breaking your bones, especially if you get stuck (which happened once). It would only be instant if it were the head first, but would take very few seconds if not, but your mind probably wouldn't even react quick enough to feel the pain. And the aftermath makes you think of an empty ice-cream bucket, there's allways something on the sides.

[QUOTE=The bird Man;49337300]There's a big risk of breaking your bones, especially if you get stuck (which happened once). It would only be instant if it were the head first, but would take very few seconds if not, but your mind probably wouldn't even react quick enough to feel the pain. And the aftermath makes you think of an empty ice-cream bucket, there's allways something on the sides.[/QUOTE] I can imagine with something that puts out the amount of force a jet engine has to put, there's no risk any bone would survive that without breaking :v:

Interesting fact: in ICD10, the new coding system for electronic medical records that's meant to really dwtail symptoms/diseases/etc., there's a code for this exact scenario.