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Originally Posted by Oakape (Post 10523882)

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. Maybe he went out the overwing exit before the bit shown in the video. That may explain why everyone was out of their seats.

I agree.........doesn’t look right.....even a 737 is hard to climb the Engine...

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Originally Posted by Oakape (Post 10523882)

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/

Oakape,

There is also an oil tank access panel below and slightly aft of the fan cowl chine thereby offering an extra hand/foothold.

Rgds Mchale.

It’s the old Twilight Zone technique. The film, not the TV show, John Lithgow bit. Suitcase in the engine for safekeeping is a master stroke though. Copy cats need not apply.

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Originally Posted by bunk exceeder (Post 10524533)

It’s the old Twilight Zone technique. The film, not the TV show, John Lithgow bit. Suitcase in the engine for safekeeping is a master stroke though. Copy cats need not apply.

Sorry for the thread drift, but the Lithgow scene in the movie was actually a remake of one of the TV episodes -- which happened to feature William Shatner long before Star Trek. I believe both are called "Nightmare At 20,000 Feet."

Quite right. I forgot that. Those are flip flops though, aren’t they?

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Originally Posted by pattern_is_full (Post 10523955)

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.

Yeah, no, that fin is nowhere near 2.5 meters above ground. More like 1.8 meters...

He may have heard that they are auditioning for a remake of Flying Down To Rio :-

He seems to be obeying the "No Step" area.

and the winner of the 2019 Darwin Awards goes to.....