If the engines are running fast enough to suck a grown man into them, then the plane is either starting its engines, or has completed start-up and is about to taxi off the ramp onto the runway. Either way, a physical barrier like you describe would be in the way at the time and could possibly damage the plane.

As a person that works in unsafe environments I can tell you if this was an accident, they could have encased that engine in a electrified cage surrounded by a moat filled with angy crocodiles, and some idiot would have found a way inside of it.

In the 18 months I worked the ramp in PHL 30 years ago:

The US also uses Pu-238 because it won’t flat out kill you if you happen to be in the same room with it. PU is an alpha source, and while it’s toxic as a substance, alpha radiation isn’t all that dangerous unless you ingest it or breath it in. There have even been (ill-considered) experiments (some without telling the…

Ah, Communist USSR. They were always ready to sacrifice the safety (and lives) of their citizenry chasing that great big red dream of Utopia.

This is not Space Force. This is an Air Force Space Command headquarters, and moving it to Alabama was a purely political move by Trump because leaving it Colorado keeps it near the other Air Force bases that would be utilizing it.

You forget that Space Force was God-Emperor Trump’s idea, and therefore must have been a good one so we can’t go back on it now or we might hurt his feelings.

So basically the same thing that’s stopping the adoption of nuclear power for our electricity.

This is what I was thinking and what I have read numerous times, however in another article an “aviation expert” stated that even opening the door at 700 feet shouldn’t be possible. According to him, opening the door into the airstream at 172 mph is “technically impossible”.

I was the first jumper in the door on a C130 once at 1,000 ft. Wind was not that bad.

The whole ordeal could have been much more damaging and deadly if it was higher up.

When I saw the headline come up on another site, I just guessed it was on I-10 through NM, not in IL.

Unfortunately, if you don’t have enough situational awareness to realize that the cops are try to get you to pull over, you should NOT be driving. And, while tasing is both “bad” and, given the clarity of 20/20 hindsight, unnecessary, it still beats the alternatives of bullets or a PIT maneuver.

Came here for all the “Airplane” references. Was not disappointed.

That’s why you never have the fish

...consider a dormant car engine light. It’s not emitting anything, but it still signals information: that your engine is fine. That’s counterfactual communication.”

The funniest thing I will hear this month will be a Finnish guy saying “what the f***”

VHAAT DAH FAHHHHK!!!

Yeah...Im pretty sure I saw that one coming. Plexiglass on the other hand...

No, that’s pretty much what I expected