Posted
1/20/2006 05:08:00 PM
by Douglas
If there's a more horrible way to die
besides being sucked into the engines of a jet, I can't imagine what it would
be.A mechanic sucked into a Continental Airlines jet engine in El Paso on Monday was the first to die that way in the United States while an aircraft was being prepared for flight, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday.
"It has not happened a lot, but it has happened before. Just not while boarding," NTSB spokeswoman Lauren Peduzzi said.
While boarding? So the people that were seated behind the wing got to witness the crimson sluice pouring out of the engine that used to be Donald Gene Buchanan? How sad is that? I wonder if Continental gave a free drink (Bloody Mary, anyone?) to the people on the Houston flight when they changed planes?