Originally Posted by
Oakape
Something strange about this. I don’t see how someone can climb from the ground up onto the engine. The gear is further back & there isn’t any hand or footholds to assist.
Sure there is - and it
shown being used as a foothold at the very start of the original video.
It is the vortex generator fin on the engine nacelle. Given the very-low-slung 737 engines (remember they are so low they have to be flat on the bottom for ground clearance!) that fin is about 2.5m/8 feet above the ground.
Not that hard for a strong healthy youth (who can jump a metre, and chin their body weight on a bar) to jump high enough to grab that fin, pull up their body weight, swing a knee onto the fin, and proceed from there.
Those of us living in the U.S. are well-aware that our basketball players quite often can jump to reach, and pull themselves up by, a basketball-net rim
3.05 meters above ground. And many of the best are of African descent.
https://www.basketballworkouttips.com/how-55-player-trained-to-dunk-basketball/