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Almost certainly a writeoff. Bone, metal and other junk severely damages the internal compressor blades of the engine as they pass through. The corresponding damage, even if fixed reduces the airflow, fuel mix and efficiency of the engine permanently.
Apparently it happened on arrival from what I read elsewhere. The standard is to have bags start to be scanned 2 minutes after arrival. So ground crew is rushed to get the baggage doors open.
Also this aircraft had an inoperable APU (auxiliary power unit). Aircraft have essentially 3 power sources: the engines, the terminal when on the ground, and the APU. It takes time to hook up to ground power, and normally they cut the engines and use the APU while waiting to be hooked up to the terminal for power. But for this aircraft, they had to keep the engines going. Sometimes the pilots can shut if one engine, but apparently did not here. 
Likely in the rush to get to the baggage door, they didn’t take note of the engine and approached too soon. Also, the airport mostly sees smaller jets with tail mounted engines. The Embraer 175 was one of the few wing mounted engines they would see, which are far more dangerous to people on the ground. >

I worked ramp crew for 6 years, I still remember in human factor training they showed us aftermath videos of people being ingested by turbines or chopped to pieces from propellers. You NEVER approach the plane until you hear the engines spool down and see the fan blades slow down specifically to prevent ingestion & beacon lights turn off when they are working. Even at near idle the top half of your body will disappear before you knew what happened. If you worked running bags on tugs or you worked certain types of planes like CRJ's, its easy to forget. 
Ramp is a fucking dangerous place if you don't have situational awareness or don't pay attention. I've personally known half a dozen people that died out there and far more injured. Not to mention the shoulder/back injuries and hearing loss Baggage Handlers inevitably get. I fractured my wrist and knee myself and i got off light. We just had a girl nearly killed after being hit by a lav truck here in Atlanta. >

Had to Google that to see what you were talking about. I work for FedEx Express which is the cargo aircraft part of FedEx. The guys on the ramp get a vest, gloves, and some earplugs. We share a terminal with United and it's basically the same equipment for them too. >

You would be amazed. I work in Memphis which is Fedex's largest hub...the amount of people walking up to engines before they are spooled down and driving tugs behind them while the engines are running is a common occurrence. Quite a lot of people who don't know what the hell is going on and not paying attention out there.
Literally the largest thing to kill you out there. >

Sounds like there's been a massive failure in safety training and enforcement there. >

Enforcement is the important part. Safety training could be incredibly good, after a few months or years the lull of working WILL have people doing their job in a dangerously careless way. It‘s just how humans work. 
Thats why safety coordinators are a thing at any competent workplace involving dangerous situations. Unless it is someones job to keep an eye on these things, slip ups will always happen. And even with a safety coordinator it‘s still possible. >

Training is pointless if the daily work is inconsistent with training. >

For sure, I just think that bad training can be fixed if the actual safety practices during work are good. If it‘s the other way around even good training isn‘t much of a help. >

I saw a set of pictures once of a guy who was swallowed by a plane's engine. I think it was a military base. It goes without saying (I'll say it anyways) that it's likely a quick death, although that doesn't really add any comfort when it comes to someone that shouldn't be dead in the first place. Fucking tragic. >

When I worked on a flightline they showed us some videos of stuff like this to scare us into following the rules (it worked). I remember one video of a guy who got ingested and lived! He was wearing a helmet which broke the blades. >

God damn man just got yoinked instantaneously >

Saw a video just the other day where something similar happened. This guy also survived without getting hurt
He probably gives his co-worker back rubs every day after that one lol >

This is the most ridiculously bad workplace safety I've ever seen. Basically an accident waiting to happen. >

Normal day in Chinese and Indian factories. If you go on watchpeopledie (now it's a separate site ever since the reddit ban) most industrial accidents happen in China, India or Russia. >

Meanwhile American libertarians: “We HaVe ToO mAnY ReGuLaTiOnS”
Ok, guy-who-didn’t-lose-any-limbs-at-work-today; keep whining… >

That's gotta be deeply traumatizing for anyone working with this person as well. One moment you're chatting with your colleague about who knows what, preparing to do another flight prep and next thing you know you see them getting sucked into a jet engine and getting unrecognizably torn apart. Whoever was involved is never setting another foot on an airport again. >

There was this serbian woman that fell out of a plane and survived and still wanted to continue working as a flight attendand so I‘m not sure >

She did, but she claimed she had absolutely no memory of the event which, if true, would explain why she wasn't scared of going back up there. >

Here in my country something different happened. the LAPA accident took the lives of dozens of people, some FAs. One of the surviving FAs continued working as an FA after the accident, and when asked about it, she justified her decision by saying "air accidents are statistically incredibly rare. I have survived one. What are the odds of me being in another?" >

God: "Hold my beer." >

If you want a true "Hold my beer" story relating to aeronautical accidents from Argentina, I recommend researching "El Mufa" (the unlucky), a 737 flown by Aerolíneas Argentinas. The plane was registered as LV-JNE >

Do you have a rough idea of the date? That airframe number seems to have been involved in a few incidents from what I can see. None of which are on Wiki, strangely. >

Its Early to mid 70's that we're talking about. I think flight 706 to Formosa might have some info in English. JNE went through a lot, but this might be the biggest one. There's a good chance all the incidents it went through aren't in English though.
If I recall them all, it got hijacked twice and had two cabin fires. It was destroyed in a third fire, but I'm not too sure of that one >

A friend of mine there when this happened, he was supposed to get on the plane to get home. The airline staff moved people to a couple of different locations in the terminal but the waiting passengers could still see the aircraft, smoke, and emergency vehicles. Eventually they made everyone exit the concourse and go through security again, and by the time they got through security the airline staff had taped paper over the windows. >

That's... Just... Undescribable. I hope they didn't know what happened and didn't see much. I feel so bad for the workers who had to deal with this and obviously the worker who lost their life. At least it was probably an instant and painless death. >

Co worker they knew likely. Hope they get paid leave. No one should work after seeing that happen to a co worker >

It's Alabama. They won't. >

More of a company thing than state >

These the same airlines lobbying for a single pilot in the cockpit to save costs? Those are who you think will do the right thing? >

I hope there wasn’t anyone looking out the window when it happened. Imagine witnessing that, I know it would fuck me up. >

Probably made a lot of noise, you could probably feel it too. >

There is always a smell >

I'm disinclined to ask how you know that. >

Can't even imagine dealing with the aftermath. Do you gather as much body parts as possible for burial? How do you even clean up after? Just hose it down as much as you can or comb through the whole area to pick up everything possible? What happens to the engine? Does it get rebuilt or just get scrapped? Disassembling that wouldn't be fun either. >

Shovel up the solids and hose off whatever's left. Sounds disrespectful to the deceased but honestly that's how big commercial/industrial messes are usually handled. >

In the 9/11 cleanup effort they had “bucket brigades” to remove bodies which is what it sounds like. 
At some point they just gave up trying to find all the bits and filled in the hole where some victims are now permanently interred. >

That’s not what the comment you’re replying tm said. It said they aren’t trying to find more remains. Not that they weren’t trying to identify them. >

There are probably a few people who need counseling after that... >

That is definitely a word that I didn't want to read in that sentence >

Alabama?  Horrifying. >

Christ what a nightmare.. I remember the video of a carrier sailor being sucked into a jet, but his helmet came off and jammed the turbine, saving his life. 
My dad, a career pilot, told me the story of another who was almost sucked in but didn’t go in (fit in?) and was just stuck until they were able to power down. Imagine the terror. 
The year or so before he retired his airline had a night crew cleaning lady die when the maintenance crew were testing engines on the same plane she was cleaning.. they were spinning the props flat and she was struck in the head. Easy to miss and accidentally walk into when it’s dark.
All terrible stories.. feels bad. >

How close do you have to be to a turbine to get sucked into it? >

About 14 feet in radius around the front. As soon as you're past the front plane of the turbine, it's dramatically safer. >

I imagine this depends on the size/power of the engine as well. One would assume an E175 engine has a much closer minimum distance than an engine on a B777 or a C-5 Galaxy. Correct? >

Actually overhead engine are far safer than ground level C-5 isn't as dangerous as others due to the need to get sucked up and out instead of straight through >

I regret opening this thread >

Wow. “Ingested” sounds not pleasant. 
Also:  Would they need an entirely new engine or just a little cleaning up here and there? >

An engine ingesting something the size of a person is going to need replaced for sure.