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Happened a couple of days ago, but as no one else posted it, I will...

Air India pilots suspended after worker 'sucked into engine' - BBC News

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My first thought was "No capes!"

I am a bad person. :(

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:sick: :(

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My question is why was this tech close enough to be ingested on push back.

All the airlines Ive worked for we would be well outside of the ingestion zone for a push back.

Now if the article is just missing some info and it was an airstart or something, then I can easily see it happening.

Even though I did it dozens of times, going under the belly of a 737 after an air start is nerve wracking. You get quite close to the engine running with 737 air starts. A320 757 and such not bad as you can sand under those. But 738 is too low.

Of course for all your 100% trusting the pilot will not start the engine your standing in front of. But at my airline all comminication at departure was verbal. No hand signals permitted.

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Yeah. The only good thing is he would have know very little about it. As Jsmith says, it's a very strange incident to have happened during push back.

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Just something worthy of note - The last Commercial Air France 747 Depature, from Paris, took place earlier today, with a Round-Trip to Mexico City. There will be two "Tribute Flights" before the AF 747 Fleet is completely gone from Air France, More Details, here - Air France to Retire its Boeing 747-400s Next January Jim.

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Virgin Atlantic to sign a deal for 12 A350s to replace the Four-Engined Jets they have - Virgin Atlantic Poised for $4.3 Billion Airbus A350 Deal - Bloomberg Business

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The 747's days as a passenger aircraft are numbered. Although it is an iconic aircraft I won't be sad to see it go as my experience is that passengers are packed in like cattle and there is little leg room.

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So much for the days when he had "Better by 4" painted on the aircraft.

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One of the best cabins in the air is the upper deck business class cabin on a 747-400. :nod:

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Sounds very much like an impatient pilot ignoring standard rules, you must wait for clearance from ground crew to start up

Or as I once did ahem start the wrong engine ahem, wasn't me sir

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Quite possibly. I had that a few times where the pilot would start the opposite engine he/she told me would be started, but as we started all engines off the gate, it wasn't a huge issue as nobody would be any closer then the nose wheel well outside of the ingestion zone.

Now if they did that with an air start, would be more serious since the machine and operator of machine are parked and standing right in front of the #1 engine, as only #2 would be started for an air start.

Air starts were the one and only time our procedures permitted engine start at the gate.

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I only flew one 2 times, once to Australia and once back. Both times decent leg room, but going there I was in bulkhead aisle just behind business class, and coming back was in an emergency exit across from flight attendant jump seats, I could stretch my legs completely out and still not touch the jump seats.

Take off and landing the 2 flight attendants were there, but during the flight they were not, so lots of leg room.

Would totally suck though for the poor souls stuck in the middle rows, they looked awfully miserable.

Was on Qantas.

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Ah the wonderful Palouste!

Damn things used to pop and bang, always funny if the hose detached, like a jumbo skipping rope