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Aircraft operated by KLM was preparing to depart when incident occurred at busy Amsterdam hub
A person has died after falling into the spinning turbine blades of a departing passenger jet at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport.
The death occurred on the apron outside the busy hub’s terminal as a KLM flight was preparing to depart for Billund in Denmark.
“A fatal incident took place at Schiphol today during which a person ended up in a running aircraft engine,” the Dutch flag carrier, KLM, said in a statement. “Sadly the person has died.” The victim has not yet been named.
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The person “fell” into a spinning turbine engine?
I’m having difficulty picturing how a person “falls” into an aircraft’s turbine…
Fell is a strange word to use. Sucked or injested would probably be better. Even at idle jet engines are powerful and they will suck up things that are close.
The areas front and back of running engines needs to be kept clear for this exact reason.
The aircraft involved is a short-haul Embraer jet used by KLM’s Cityhopper service, which operates flights to nearby destinations such as London, Dutch news reports said.
If it was a boeing it would be in the headline.
That Sounds like a horrible, painful death.
Painful
In order to be painful it’d have to happen slow enough to actually feel it.
If this dude felt anything it was a pinch and then nothing.
I doubt it would be terribly painful. One moment you’re standing there, then you get sucked up. You would feel the intense vacuum pulling you which would be unpleasant. But then less then a second later you’re ragu, and I doubt you would’ve felt the impact at all.
