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KORD: 787 Engine Ingests Container in Transit

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At Chicago O'Hare International Airport, an American Airlines 787-9 engine suffered serious damage after it inhaled containers passing in front of the plane, ingesting one of them.

This video shows the inhalation of containers and the ingestion of one of them:

 

https://x.com/WindyCityDriver/status/1847489049637908582

OOF!  That's not gonna buff out.

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Some folks are gonna be waiting a little while at the baggage carousel...  😊

I'm also guessing those folks on the AA B787 aircraft are going to be wishing they had packed under garments in their carry-on!  😶

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From this reconstruction published online, those who caused the movement of the containers could have been "unknowingly" the pilots of the Air France A350 who were preceding the American Airlines 787 on the taxiway.

Analyzing the video, you can see the A350 and the 787 stopped on the taxiway but when the tractor with the container arrives in front of the 787, you can see the portion of the A350's wing visible in the video move forward, so the pilots must have opened the throttle with the consequent movement of the containers.

 

https://youtu.be/23DvMHkncdk?si=iGO40U4_b8IEnhV8

So that’s what happened to my golf clubs on my return from Scottsdale.

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Even engines are hungry sometimes.

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Wow, yes there is no way wind caused that it must have been jet blast, and the jet blast was perfect aligned with that engine, everyone trying to keep to tight schedules at O'Hare

Amazing how tough those engines are, ate those containers like a blender

Matthew Kane

I'm Dyslexic, what's an error to you is not to me 

Holy doggy doo, they did it AGAIN yesterday, and in the same spot at KORD.  Twice in four days.  A Jetblue A320 took a cargo container blown off the cart by a preceding jet into it's #1 engine.  Looked like the container mostly damaged the cowling and didn't get ingested, but DANG, how many times does it take for them to realize they have to do something differently??!!

https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/455850

They're channelling their inner Britney Spears, maybe?

Oops, I did it again

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49 minutes ago, Bob Scott said:

Holy doggy doo, they did it AGAIN yesterday, and in the same spot at KORD.  Twice in four days.  A Jetblue A320 took a cargo container blown off the cart by a preceding jet into it's #1 engine.  Looked like the container mostly damaged the cowling and didn't get ingested, but DANG, how many times does it take for them to realize they have to do something differently??!!

https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/455850

They're channelling their inner Britney Spears, maybe?

Oops, I did it again

This must be the sequel to..."Mom I lost a...container in KORD"!😁

 

 

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