Things are getting dire in Kabul
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I test jet engines for a living. We had a guy die in a test cell while making an adjustment on an engine and he got caught by the afterburner draft (negative pressure) and died after being thrown through the exhaust tube. I saw no one getting blown around on that video lol
ouch
That sounds like a fun job. I take it he probably didn’t even realize what happened. I’m sure that was quite the mess and I can’t imagine the paperwork! I’m sorry, losing a coworker sucks.
It is a fun job! I love doing troubleshooting and hands on work so I enjoy it a lot.
This guy was a nice guy, but made a mistake and it cost him. He got just a little too far back from where he would have been okay so the negative pressure by the fast moving air just sucked him to behind the engine and blew him through the exhaust. He was unconscious and battered to hell, but alive for a couple of hours. He died in the hospital from all the burns and head trauma.