Jumbo Jet Sucks Up Baggage Cart

[Maestro]

Jet 'Eats' Baggage Cart On Runway In LA

12:27pm UK, Tuesday May 12, 2009

As excuses go, passengers could not really argue when a jet airliner was grounded - after it sucked up a baggage cart into one of its engines.

The Japan Airlines Boeing 747 with the baggage container in one of its engines

he Boeing 747 was leaving a terminal gate at Los Angeles International Airport when suction from the air inlet on the engine hoovered up the nearby aluminium container.

The incident happened on Monday as Japan Airlines Flight 61 to Narita was pushing back from the terminal gate.

Continued here: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-New..._Of_Its_Engines

Source: Sky News 2009-05-1227

[Ricardo]

Let us hope that this new self-loading option is not extended to the passengers too !

[johnnymoretti]

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