I was part of the MX crew that went to AUS to put this one back in service. The only visible damage was the roughly football size dent on the unpainted part of the Inlet Cowl. Everything else in that photo is a reflection from the Jetway. The black in the picture was the guys backpack that was stuck between Inlet Cowl and Fan Cowl. The Airport Ops guy said there is a homeless shelter on one side of the airport and a soup kitchen on the other. They have a big problem with people jumping the fence in AUS.

@zacharyimerman5651

Жыл бұрын

Interesting.. Glad the damage wasn't that bad but still feel terrible for the pilots and the gentleman's family

@gracelandone

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for clarifying. I had thought the damage extensive and wondering how hitting a person could cause it.

@czdaniel1

Жыл бұрын

Homeless shelter put on one side of the airport, the soup-kitchen on the other. You know those product experiences where you have the feeling that actual engineering work must have been applied into making something worse, just to piss you off (

@steewith2ees14

Жыл бұрын

@@czdaniel1 amen! How sad. It will take a hull write off and / or fatalities on board a departing or arriving aircraft before anyone would even consider looking into this as it seems that homeless people in the US are considered by many to have no right to life to begin with.

@joevignolor4u949

Жыл бұрын

Was there any damage to the engine itself?

I hope the pilots are doing well. It's definitely not their fault.

@vielumiereg9794

Жыл бұрын

Yea, that's awful. It's actually a common reason that a lot of train conductors end up having a pretty high PTSD rate that you honestly wouldn't have expected.

@owatajrkiam

Жыл бұрын

The guys name was Oliver D Place.

@wardamneagle2257

Жыл бұрын

Happened two years ago

@donblub

Жыл бұрын

better then the averange train opperator who hit a person. because on the plane, you don't see how the person is hit, but on a train you have him all over you windshield. i know one train operator in germany, he collected already 3 persons. the worst thing, you can not even try to avoid them, you can only sit and watch.

@collectorguy3919

Жыл бұрын

​@@wardamneagle2257 They can know intellectually it's not their fault, but it can still haunt them forever and feel like it was. "If only I had steered right a little more."

Wife used to be a CSI and went to MVA with fatalities, we imagined the call: Dispatch: Have an MVA with fatality at the airport, 1 vehicle involved. CSI: What's the make of the vehicle? Dispatch: Boeing CSI: 😳

@kriscarmelo

Жыл бұрын

😂 good one.

@christiansotelo55

5 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

Reminds me of a story. Involving my father. He was an Eastern Airlines pilot landing a Connie sometime in the 50s in New Orleans. Just as they landed, they saw an old guy walking across the runway. Dad took evasive action and missed him barely. My dad was treated as a hero by the company and the New Orleans Times-Picayune. He didn't think he was much of a hero. So sorry this had a different outcome.

@LoekiNL

Жыл бұрын

A real hero always denies to be a hero... think about that one for a minut, remember it for next hero story and check if i'm right

@thechh8297

Жыл бұрын

@@LoekiNL i am not a hero

Despite a police investigation, they never determined the reason how the man got onto the runway, or his purpose. They concluded that it was unfortunately a suicide, but questions still stand as how he got on the runway to begin with.

@sasino

Жыл бұрын

Well he could have just jumped the fence and walked, not that impossible

@atx1459

Жыл бұрын

He was a homeless person who entered through the fence line of the ABIA (Austin Bergstrom International Airport) property. I can't speak of his intentions, but it is not uncommon for homeless, aka transients, to enter onto ABIA (Austin) property. He just happened to walk onto the runway as opposed walking into the luggage claim area, or other non-FAA controlled areas of ABIA. Not common but not unusual either.

@randbarrett8706

Жыл бұрын

I’m guessing he didn’t go through the terminal

@malahammer

Жыл бұрын

If he was determined to get on the runway he could easily do it

While in the Air Force, I read an accident investigation involving a collision between a KC-135 air refueling tanker and a herd of cows on the runway. It was at night at an Air Force base in Michigan. The cows were drawn to the runway for its warmth that the concrete had retained from the day's sunlight. Earlier, unknown at the time, the perimeter fence had been broken down. That allowed the cows to get on the runway. They huddled in a group around the center of the runway. When the KC-135 touched down on that runway, the pilots did not spot the cows at first. By the time they spotted the cows, they were going too slow to take off and too fast to stop or turn. The main landing gear struck the cows as they huddled together. That caused the landing gear to collapse. The plane then veered off the runway and burst into flames. There were fatalities but I don't recall how many. Since then, before an aircraft is permitted to land on that runway, an officer drives his truck the full length of the runway to ensure it is clear.

This was handled professionally by all involved. Nice work.

At first I was like... jesus, again?! Then I realized this incident was 2+ years old.

At the actual time of touchdown, it was after sunset so the person was likely seen only by the reflection of the landing/turnoff lights.

@bigolejosh1281

Жыл бұрын

Bruh that would be a wild video

I think Southwest's only passenger fatality was the one from the uncontained engine failure. They hit this person through no fault if their own. Also a SWA 737 slid off a runway at Midway and killed a child in a car. That's an amazing safety record.

@jbreezy101

Жыл бұрын

Fined twice for maintenance slacking

@StevenJohnson737

Жыл бұрын

Correct me if I’m wrong but that pax fatality you speak of is the only death to a pax of a US part 121 major airline as a result of an aircraft accident sense 9/11/01. So you could also say they have the worst safety record in the last couple decades in the US

@SquawkCode

Жыл бұрын

@@jbreezy101 show me a list of all the airlines not fined.

@SquawkCode

Жыл бұрын

@@StevenJohnson737 you are very wrong. AA587 11/12/2001 260 dead. Colgan 3407 2009 50 dead (resulted in ATP requirement that F'd up the whole industry). Comair 5191 49 dead, PennAir 3296 1 dead, Asiana 214 3 dead, Corporate Air 5966 13 dead, Pinnacle 3701 2 dead FL410 Club!, Colgan Air 9446 2 dead, Air Midwest 5481 21 dead. Alaska 261 88 dead, Egypt Air990 217 dead, Chalks101 20 dead plus several cargo planes like AtlasAir 3591 3 dead.

@StevenJohnson737

Жыл бұрын

@@SquawkCode ok….. well still the only death in the past 2 decades so my statement holds up. Push my date back 2 months lol

Quite the runway incursion

From an ops standpoint, finding dead/struck wildlife on the runway is pretty common, but I can’t imagine finding a dead human body.

@182QKFTW

Жыл бұрын

For sure...Rabbits and deer are one thing-

@kingcrumpet

Жыл бұрын

Same shit different shape.

@kriscarmelo

Жыл бұрын

They’d have to call the coroner. They have to pick up every piece of “he/him” lol off the ground, Fan blades, cowlings. Like collecting meat from a wood chipper. What a mess!

Well that’s one way to absolutely nail plane spotting

Before watching even a second of this video, the title alone left me saying, "WTF!?!"

Real ATC, can you do the AA emergency landing in Bahamas?

Very Sad....

Nacelles are designed for flight loads, forward & reverse thrust and birds up to geese(?) not a 200 pound point load.

This happened a long time ago. Seen this uploaded by like 6 other channels

This was the alternate ending to _Planes, Trains And Automobiles._

Imagine trying to keep birds off the runway once the ground is scattered with all that ground beef

I wonder if someone sitting before the engine was filming their landing and caught anything on film

I need more information...was it the ground crew...how did he get there? Who was he?

Someone must have got a really bad headache after this.

Man’s Stats: Situational Awareness=0 Speed=5% Expendable Target=100%

17R? This must have been a while ago

TY,,,,,,WOW 1st class incredible very interesting super kool ,1st class great info.,, AAAAAAAAAAA++++++++++++ again great video I liked it a lot ,keep up the great work

wrong map (not RWY 17R). Old story

When they are speaking with Delta 819 is that a plane that would be landing next, and the tower had them stay in the air after the other plane had already touched down? Thanks. My heart goes out to the pilot and anyone else this affects. Suicide is horrendous. Involving others in your exit of this life ...I have no words....

@jazzi_0453

Жыл бұрын

Yes Delta 819 would have been the next plane to land but the tower sent them around because the runway had to be inspected after the report of Southwest

Strange things happen for sure. I grew up in a small town in KY where a John Doe hopped the airport fence and jumped on a wing of a small plane during takeoff. He fell off shortly after and died. Not sure if anyone ever claimed him..Maybe he just watched too many James Bond movies? How does one end up walking down a commercial jet runway?

@mikebarker9187

Жыл бұрын

You start by smoking weed.

@TonyPajamas24

Жыл бұрын

@@mikebarker9187 I take it you’ve never smoked weed, mate

@mikebarker9187

Жыл бұрын

@@TonyPajamas24 and based on your reply and reasoning, I take it you do. … Enjoy your continuing and growing brain/mental dysfunction. But it’d be better if you woke up to the fraud of marijuana marketing. Wake up.

@wyattmann8157

Жыл бұрын

I remember seeing that story on Unsolved Mysteries back in the day.

@timengineman2nd714

Жыл бұрын

According to someone, there's a Homeless camp on one side of the airport and a soup kitchen on the other side. Apparently this was a homeless person taking the shortest path either to the kitchen or back to the camp...

More like, "Person gets hit walking on runway during plane landing", NOT "Plane hits person walking on runway during landing". The structuring of the sentence infers the Plane is at fault, and assigns blame.

10 points for creativity, 0 points for endangering others.

@SwaFixer

Жыл бұрын

There is a homeless shelter on one side of airport and the soup kitchen on the other. AUS has a problem with people jumping the fence.

@TruFalco

Жыл бұрын

@@ZERO-911 I mean he upset and potentially traumatized the poor pilots. They sound audibly upset by the entire thing. Easily leaving mental scars that will never heal.

Tower asks if they felt a big bump on landing? Pilot response no?

Damn

@DedhedWaldo

Жыл бұрын

I was gonna say "wow!" but I think you are more on the nose with your comment

@glyndavies2828

Жыл бұрын

Think splat is more appropriate

@WolfgangMahringer

Жыл бұрын

@@glyndavies2828 That stung!

What? They hit the person with the engine cowling?? Wow, how terrible.

He went through the engine.

So when he bounced, did he go "boeing, boeing, boeing" . . ?

@philipkeeler9997

Жыл бұрын

Nope. Boeing, Boeing, gone.

what a way to go...

R.I.P. Junin Ko

"Keep Austin weird"

Don’t remember during my flight training if the AIM or does the FARs cover running over somebody.

@richardm5967

Жыл бұрын

As I recall there is something in there about serious injury or death related to the operations of an aircraft... I'd have to look it up again

I take it that the person hit is dead considering these planes are coming in at about 130-140 knots, if the strike by the engine wasn’t enough.

@Dolorous_Edd_

Жыл бұрын

Had you read the description, perhaps you’d know

Probably won't buff out.

@rrobins9857

Жыл бұрын

Gonna have to get that really heavy compound for that!

@MikeBrown-ex9nh

Жыл бұрын

Should have had ceramic coating.

@danieldelgado8153

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

Did someone breach airport perimeter security, or was some airport employee having a suicidal moment. Face it, it's hard to not notice an airliner coming at you.

@sparkplug1018

Жыл бұрын

From what I remember, it was a breach by a person who wanted to "go".

@beeble2003

Жыл бұрын

Security breach. And landing planes don't actually make all that much noise. (Though I think this was at night, so the lights would be on.)

Hard to believe hitting a person could cause that much structural damage to the engine.

@nihlify

Жыл бұрын

Planes are designed to withstand 2 pound birds not 200 pound humans

@greebo7857

Жыл бұрын

Ever seen a car that's hit a person or large animal at highway speeds? Cars are more solid than jet engine cowlings, and the 737 would have been going at least twice as fast. Lucky he didn't get sucked into the fans.

@tonyf9076

Жыл бұрын

Does anyone have any background info ? Hard for a pedestrian to miss a big runway and a plane coming at you ??? Ah nevermind, this was 2020 and labelled by PD as suicide but not conclusive.

@jhaymanmyles2226

Жыл бұрын

@@tonyf9076 I agree, seems selfish of the individual putting everyone on the plane at risk.

@higgydufrane

Жыл бұрын

Physics is a bitch.

I hope the pilots didn't get interrogated by the NTSB for something that was not their fault and something that couldn't be avoided.

@beeble2003

Жыл бұрын

"Interrogate" is a very loaded word. I'm sure the NTSB _asked_ them what happened, because it's important to know.

@sheerri

Жыл бұрын

I’m sure they were interviewed, not so much interrogated. They would have to be spoken to in order for a complete investigation to have been conducted and their testimony would be needed to make the final report.

as a pilot is touching down I think the last thing they expect to see is a person on the runway--certainly not their fault, if this is a problem, the airport security should have been beefed up

Was it a worker on the runway or was it a trespasser? I doubt an employee would be foolish enough to be walking on the runways but it could happen I suppose.

What this man doing on a aircraft runway in the first place where are the security

Maybe this should be investigated as a dry run for a terrorist attack. They know they can get onto the runway easily enough.

Confused why they cut out the traffic before Ops discovered anything and there was more info.

@beeble2003

Жыл бұрын

What? They thought that somebody migh be walking around on the runway. That's a danger to that person and a danger to traffic. Of course they stopped traffic as soon as they had any reason to believe there was a person on the runway. You don't just let planes keep landing until one of them reports "Yep, that was _definitely_ a person on the runway."

this was a suicide fyi, for people wondering how this happened. He name was Junin Ko.

Suicide isn't the way out of life. Classic case of it. Someone should of said something! Eyes everywhere on the ground

Keep Austin Weird!

I thought they bumped into someone as they were taxiing, then I saw the picture

@beeble2003

Жыл бұрын

The picture makes the damage to the plane look much worse than it actually was. If you look closely, you see that most of what look like deformations of the nacelle are actually just reflections of the runway. The only damage is a big dent to the inlet, and the guy's backpack has snagged against something and is hanging from the nacelle.

Im confused. It says the plane managed to avoid the person but theres damage to the plane and the guy is dead?? Well which one is it!??

@philipkeeler9997

Жыл бұрын

What's your best guess?

...Only in Austin.

What the hell was he doing on the runway??? It is his own fault!! There is no crosswalks on that runway!! I hope the pilots are ok!!

Damn, hopefully they survived

@NWtoSFO

Жыл бұрын

Yes, the pilots and everyone onboard survived.

Airports are restricted areas…..how did that he get on the runway?…jaywalking is an offense. Was he doing a runway inspection? Should the train company be responsible for a person who deliberately run through a train stop barrier, and got hit by the train?

00:24 You’d think by this time in life we’d have high quality radio communication. I think the McDonalds heads sets have a better quality than these mics.

@beeble2003

Жыл бұрын

The quality of the audio in the cockpit and tower is usually fine. What you're hearing here is audio captured by some random third party whose radio receiver isn't in an optimal location.

Looks like he may have been ingested by the engine

@beeble2003

Жыл бұрын

I don't think so -- his backpack is snagged against something. The engines would have been at idle, so not sucking in huge amounts of air.

Maybe don’t hang out on a runaway when a plane is landing

The man chose to go west and south simultaneously, via Southwest. He must have been a punster.

Not "pedestrian" but "trespasser".

@beeble2003

Жыл бұрын

The trespasser was on foot, so was a pedestrian. At the point when the pilots saw him, they didn't know if he was trespassing: it could have been an airport worker in the wrong place.

And I thought getting hit by a train was an impressive Darwin accomplishment.

There is no indication that the aircraft maneuvered to avoid the person

Airplanes are like papers. Brake so easy! Trains are like bullets!!!!!!!!!!

Why is there a person on an active runway?

@andreyv116

Жыл бұрын

First guess would be suicide, just like train tracks

@cyclonxt7315

Жыл бұрын

Suicide

@jeffhubbard2518

Жыл бұрын

shortcut ?

@Jetman123

Жыл бұрын

Suicide attempt. Successful, unfortunately.

@starwarzchik112

Жыл бұрын

He was probably suicidal.

Splattttt

Donnie boy drump! Lol

I'm ok that some people want to end their life. But please do it without involving other people like pilot and train conductor. You want to die ? OK but don't give anyone a PTSD...

@kingcrumpet

Жыл бұрын

What a shitty attitude. Hope no one ever comes to you for help.

Someone is in trouble.

@Dstew57A

Жыл бұрын

Nobody is in trouble…

@sparkplug1018

Жыл бұрын

For what exactly?

@frankgrimesification

Жыл бұрын

Highly unlikely pilots would have got in trouble for this, although it sucks that they will have to live with the knowledge of what happened for the rest of their lives.

did they ever iD this person?

@youtub13

Жыл бұрын

Junin Ko, rando walked onto the runway and wasn't supposed to be there

@GuineaPig91

Жыл бұрын

Junin Ko.

How was someone on the runway? I've done work for airports on the runways and nobody moves without permission from the tower. Everyone that works there would know that. Also the runway would be closed if they gave permission for someone to go out on the runway. If it was a pedestrian, how did they get out there?

@mikoto7693

Жыл бұрын

I work airside too and as far as I remember when I heard about this awhile back it was a perimeter fence breach. A member of the public got in and chose to suicide by jetliner.

@endokrin7897

Жыл бұрын

Homeless shelter + soup kitchen near airport

@kingcrumpet

Жыл бұрын

🤦

I was wondering why the thumbnail looked familiar, it’s an older incident 😂

did they say they hit the person or was that clickbate

@ohnoZomBri

Жыл бұрын

As stated in the video and caption, the pedestrian they were talking about was hit and killed. You can look up the plane info to verify as well, though I can’t find much info about them. All I can find is that is was an adult who was not dressed as an airport employee, but their identity wasn’t released.

@Rocker-1234

Жыл бұрын

@@ohnoZomBri not to mention, at the end it shows the aircraft damage from where it hit them.... atleast it was hopefully a quick and painless death

@GlobalTossPot

Жыл бұрын

Not clickbait. A person was indeed struck and killed. The pilots just didn’t call it out assuming they didn’t know they initially hit the person

@GuineaPig91

Жыл бұрын

they hit Mr. Junin Ko

That would hurt ! For a second...................⚡

May 7, 2020 incident.

@GlobalTossPot

Жыл бұрын

No shit Sherlock. Says it both in the description and beginning of the video.

So much for security at the airport.

The framing of the map is acceptable, but it would be nice to have a compass rose, since you have it about 100° rotated.

@davismontana9307

Жыл бұрын

The main landing strip at Austin is north-south. The SWA approached from the north heading south.

Hard to believe so much damage and the crew didn't report hitting the person. Did any Pax see the man get hit? I am thinking it was death by plane suicide.

@Passions

Жыл бұрын

Do you know how fast planes are traveling even while landing? Have you seen a car's damage after hitting a deer?

@jarisundell8859

Жыл бұрын

That's why they gave them a number to call, neither side wanted to start talking about it on an open channel.

@austinformedude

Жыл бұрын

There is no way they would have been able to tell if they hit them or not.

@jbreezy101

Жыл бұрын

They reported it after they hit him. Someone in the touchdown zone like that you cannot go around.

@bryanteverson4071

Жыл бұрын

The thrust reverse looks still deployed, so I'd say they knew.

This is year's old

more than likely it was a homeless person. In that case they shouldn't delay all the passengers not worth it. Homeless people are usually mentally ill or are drug addicts. And the people of Austin Keep contributing to their behavior. Giving the money on the side of the road in order to feel better about themselves and opening up homeless shelters and Keeping them well stocked with needles

this is a bit late

@frankgrimesification

Жыл бұрын

Better late than pregnant.

Cyclists: “You didn’t stop for me!”

much better than VAS Aviation. That guy is horrid.

I heard he wanted to talk to the pilot about his vehicles extended warranty and hasn’t been able to get ahold of him. 🤷‍♀️

@endokrin7897

Жыл бұрын

That's not funny. Not because a person died; that's obviously not funny. And I'm no kill-joy. But because the whole "I've been trying to get ahold of you to talk about your extended warranty" schtick is lame. 🙄

Well, that was kinda boring…

Must have been a linebacker to cause that much damage.

@RomeoFox

Жыл бұрын

737 lands at about 145kts(166mph) Math with a 200lbs guy works out to like 6758 Newtons of force. Will definitely crumple some sheet metal

@Matt-mo8sl

Жыл бұрын

@@RomeoFox At least the guy didn't feel anything.

@beeble2003

Жыл бұрын

Most of what you're seeing isn't damage -- it's reflections in the polished skin of the plane.

Old news

Dead man walking….

More Millennial Wokeness.

Splat!!

@genehunsinger3981

Жыл бұрын

ALMOST missed em by THAT MUCH!!

Thinning the herd! !! !!!

Was he trying to catch a flight to Martha's Vineyard?

@Carlos44

Жыл бұрын

A really disgusting revelation of your own interior mental and emotional state. Yuck!

@jamessimms415

Жыл бұрын

BOOM !!!

@RLTtizME

Жыл бұрын

@@Carlos44 Oh Carl...he would MUCH rather go to the Vineyard than sleep on the street in El Paso. You would make a really silly illegal immigrant. 50 illegals cook in the trailer on the border and Carl is silent. 50 get a free trip to the Vineyard...and Carl blows a nut.

@alanwatson3367

Жыл бұрын

Maybe I’m sick too but I had to laugh

@marthakrumboltz2710

Жыл бұрын

@@Carlos44 either chill or invite them to your house for tea & crumpets

Al Gore.

why was the stewardess on the radio for Delta?

@subsoar5734

Жыл бұрын

now what in the fuck

@sparkplug1018

Жыл бұрын

Believe it or not, there are women like me in the cockpit. Who knew, there's nothing in there requiring male organs to operate.

@marthakrumboltz2710

Жыл бұрын

@@sparkplug1018 that depends on the time of month

@frankgrimesification

Жыл бұрын

@@sparkplug1018 Women pilots? Who would have thunk it!

There is no indication that the pilots thought that they’d hit the pedestrian in spite of your click bait thumbnail.

@kingcrumpet

Жыл бұрын

They 100% knew. They just didn't want to say it on frequency

Lol

Watch out for the Muslims walking on the runways. 😆 Definitely not pilots fault, nothing they could do.