Had a turkey buzzard takeout the left windscreen on an A-10…ohhh…about 1996…then went down the intake and destroyed the engine…pilot climed out looking like road kil…lol
And boy do those motors stink when they’ve sucked a bird…
That’s why I was glad to be an electrician and not a powerplants guy!
I once saw a picture of a C-17 at an airshow sucking up water from a puddle on the tarmac. Having seen how high that thing’s engines are from the ground, thats a lot of pulling power.
I wonder if it was trying to dislodge other FOD. To quote just about every dentist when the drill makes that horrid grinding and skipping noise on a tooth:
“Okay, rinse.” 
There was a man who was F.O.D. He was sucked though an engine, and an hour later he was sitting at a meeting about job safety, in a full body cast.
Where the heck did you hear that?
Trust me…nothing makes it through the LP Compressor (Fan) of a jet engine while running.
You sure?
fyi----I work for Pratt rebuilding jet engines
Evidently he was feeling better? [;)] I have seen someone go through a jet engine…trust me when I say I wished I had’nt seen it.
I worked with GE LM2500s (same engine as the DC-10) in a marine application and nothing larger than a finger would or could come out the other end.
I, too find that hard to believe unless there were some sort of screen forward of the LP Compressor blades. I would think he would still be in the hospital…er, sorry for the Brits…“in hospital” an hour after the incident. He wouldn’t be able to hear squat of what was said in the meeting due to the ringing in his ears!
A human going down an intake, with an engine running, only has a very slim chance of survival. The pressure in the intake would collapse his lungs. It would just suck the air out of him. I have seen the results of two people that have been removed from intakes. All were dead and each did not have a mark on them that you could see. Both of them died of suffocation.
To Really understand FOD,
The next time that you are at your local airport, toss somin in the path of a spooling engine. NOW thats FOD!![:p][:p][:p][:p]
Flaps up, Mike
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There’s some video out there of a guy getting sucked up into an A-6 intake. He lived, and the only reason is that his belt got caught on a probe that’s located in the forward section of the intake. If he or anyone makes it to the turbine blades it’s all over…
With all the junk that ends up on runways, as well as birds, sometimes I think it’s a wonder there isn’t more FOD!
FOD is in layman terms the stuff you see on the side of the road, basicly trash that’s on the flight line or flight apron, and with most units in the US military they do FOD walks weekly mostly on Mondays at shift change to try to rid the problem but with jets like the F-16(the world largest vacuum cleaner or lawn darts) they’ll even pull the tar from the cracks on the aprons, I should know I’ve worked them for over 8 years, now I have a break and now work the most deadliest tank killer in the world, the Hawg(A-10) and she’s the most forgiving airframe around, but she’s still susceptable to FOD damage, I’ve work just about all of the aircraft in AF’s inventory and to top that I’ve even work corp. jets as a civilian(I’m an AF Reservist now) and FOD is still considered a Killer,—FOD is Foreign Object Damage or possible damage to the airframe or engine causing extensive repair or total distruction to airframes or powerplants, FOD ranges from blades of grass to Human beings to hand tools to ball point pens or even a B-B, a .25 cent ball point pen can destroy a $25,000,000.00 engine and the USAF & US Navy has a major campain to rid this problem but it’s still there because people are not perfect and they drop things without knowing it(normal human nature) and the next person doesn’t pick it up and thats FOD, on the MiG 29 she has anti FOD doors on her intakes to stop the engines from injesting FOD while on taxi’s, take off’s & landings, but like all A/C(aircraft) FOD can still get them in the air, birds are Flying FOD and they don’t even know it until it’s way to late, I know I’ve overloaded you with so much information but I hope you get the picture if you have any questions e-mail me at 72cuda@gimail.af.mil
thanks
We were required to count all shirt buttons, sniglets at the end of shoe laces and other items that could become seperated from our uniforms or person before entering the intake plenum. This list was kept on the toolbox then everything was recounted, if something was missing it was back into the plenum until it was found. A shirt button can do some damage. We were, probably, the only ones to intenionally introduce FOD (sort of) into a turbine.
72cuda, a weekly FOD walk? We do it first thing in the morning and another at shift change, plus a tool/FOD check after any maintenance.
well all FOD walks that we’re supervised by QA were done weekly but the T&F(tool & FO) checks are part of the maintenance proceedure as well as the dailys and I really didn’t account for them, like putting change in you pocket at check out line in Wally World, But if your stationed overseas then you should know that there are rarely any apron maintenance do, the planes are parked in HAS’s or Tab Vee’s and they are swepped out when the planes have taxied for their sorties and what you take into them you must take out thats disposable or trash, I think you could get the picture of what I mean, as for watching things gettting injested when I was TDY to Luke AFB I watched some young Airman get sucked into a running F-16, that killed the guy and totaly destroyed the F100PW200 engine, and the next day TAC banded all use of the field jackets parka hood attachment for all F-16 wings and everyone who had the parka attachment had to turn it in to the DCM(Deputy Co, of Maintenance) of the wing,
BTW, the gentleman that was sucked into the F-18 intake WAS hit by the rotor blades. He was lucky enough just to be slightly scalped, plus lost an ear. The fast thinking of the pilot saved his life. Believe me, being on an aircraft carrier, you see that movie played over and over again. Still amazing he lived, if you ask me.
demono69
here’s another one for the FOD issue, on the Yard Darts(F-16’s) you needed to remove all items in your pockets, due to the AcesII ejection seat was reclined 30 degrees and possible FO in the cockpit, and pilots didn’t want to see you pocket fuzz doing a 9G turn, also had to make sure all items where removed from avionic bays to prevent damages to the flight control computers
Isn’t this FOD issue going nuts?