What is the probablity of living if you get sucked into a jet turbine...you know like that u-tube video?

Question

What is the probablity of living if you get sucked into a jet turbine...you know like that u-tube video?

Answer 1

100% if you want to stand in front of a running jet engine.

Answer 2

about .5 a percent...we had to learn that in mechanics school...they show that same vid as a "what could happen!" thing...

Answer 3

0%  you'll become a red semi-solid mass. no one will know who it is.

Answer 4

slim to none will turn ya into a red mist

Answer 5

about .5 percent

Answer 6

Pray you die on the spot like one heart beat good buy cruel world.

Answer 7

The probability is 0. The only thing which will remain is the blood and smashed up bones.

Answer 8

I'll give you true examples and you be the judge.

In the inlet area a diagonal cutter was left by a mechanic, no one checked the inlet area prior engine run-up. So engine was started and during high power the cutter was ingested, sparks flew and a big bang was heard- result fan blades were broken, bent and the cutter was in shreds. Nobody admitted ownership of the cutter.

A 747 or a DC-10 was on the run-up area doing engine run, a construction worker doing work on the taxiway did not know and continue to cross behind the airplane about 100 meters, he was thrown on the run-up area fence (slam as if paper) and when the run-up operator was informed and shut the engine the man fell like a mass of crumpled paper.

Answer 9

This reminds me of a news story from 1975. Some guy in Australia had greased his nude body up, drove out onto the TARMAC in a jeep, and threw himself into a running engine. I believe it was a 747.

I'm not sure if he needed the grease, but he did "break on through to the other side."

Answer 10

The one on You-Tube was a special set of events that saved the persons life.  There was a person at the throttle control, engine stall, inlet guide vanes, and others.

If you happen to be within the inlet range of an idling engine you will and can be sucked in to the first stage blades and cut to nothing.  The engine manufactures are required to show compliance with large birds during certification to show the engine will digest birds, rain, and ice and keep running.

Bottom line you will surely die.  Think about this if you stick your finger in blinder and see what happens.  This is what a turbine engine will do to you whole body.  I would suggest you not stick your finger in a blinder as it will cut it up.

Answer 11

You won't live.  You won't even be recognized.  You'll be a soupy hot mess.

The youtube video you are most likely referring to is of a Navy carrier crewman being sucked into the INTAKE (but not quite through the turbine) of an A-6 Intruder.  The way the A-6 is designed, there is a bullet (I guess like a large piece at the head of the actual turbine) that prevented the man's entire body from from entering the engine.  I think his shoulder got wedged somehow on this bullet.  The small explosion coming out of the back of the plane was from his cranial (helmet) and radio gear being sucked in.  Those pieces destroyed the engine.  The pilot quickly shut the engines off once he/she realized something was wrong and the crewman got out after a few minutes, injured, but definitely alive.

He perhaps would have eventually been sucked in, the engines were at full throttle.

Answer 12

If you're talking about like a jumbo jet, which is a turbofan jet, there's no chance whatsoever.  That's like the urban legend of the guy that walked through the prop of an old-school prop plane and lived.  Even if you went through vertically, your entire body would have to pass through the path of the blades before even one blade hit you, and you'd have to be travelling much faster than any human ever could.  Can you say, Cuisinart?