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Old 30th Jun 2023, 16:42
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An interesting side note - while always tragic, rather counterintuitively the rate of human ingestion events is far lower now than before the introduction of big, high bypass engines. The rate of the JT8D on the 737 Jurassic was particularly bad (although with inlet guide vans, it wasn't automatically fatal).
Apparently the risk with a big bypass engine is obvious enough to make people be automatically more cautious around them when running.
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