| My job between college and business school was in the Financial Management Program at United Technologies/Pratt & Whitney in East Hartford CT. Despite being on the finance side I got to see some FOD testing of various military and commercial engines where the goal was to keep the nacelles intact even the object caused the engine to be destroyed or shutdown.
This was in the late 70’s when main competitor GE was having problems with titanium in the hot section catching fire. We used to joke about GE engines: “HiFi in the cabin, TiFi on the wing”!
Fascinating even though most of the testing focused on birds as large as geese.
John Sent from my iPhone On May 11, 2026, at 12:08 PM, Clarence Romero Jr. via Ferrari <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com> wrote:
It was significant The aircraft was at 147 knots close to rotation speed when the event happened The engine was at max thrust setting The individual FODed out the first and second stage fan blades with his body The crew did an outstanding job with the abort and thank god they were on the long runway It would have been worse at a higher speed
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The one cLyDe has pics of is just the aftermath of the ingestion of an idiot. At full throttle and moving fast the person just turned to red mist. The one a few days before in Italy, the engines were at idle and the plane was not moving... that bozo ran into the engine, got chewed up (must have tasted bad) and spit out on the tarmac.
So far there haven't been any "close up" photos from that one come into the public sphere. Watch at your own discretion.
After I had left flying Navy, they had an of incident of a deckhand getting sucked into an A-6 inlet. That is a MUCH smaller engine (J-52) but you can see the suction power of that motor. He survived because the J-52 compressor entry cone made the space too small for him to get through. But his helmet and rainbow jacket got sucked off and grenaded the engine.
The only carnage here is the entrails of the engine and his gear being ejected.
Rick
On Sunday, May 10, 2026 at 10:13:18 PM PDT, Brian Keegan <bks281 [at] hotmail.com> wrote:
Please send it as common sense warning to the others?
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On May 10, 2026, at 9:43 AM, Clarence Romero Jr. via Ferrari <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com> wrote:
I have the gruesome picture
If anyone wants to see an Airliner engine that consumes a human
Clyde Romero
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