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Sucked in Japan Airlines!

Published on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 at 12:52 am

JAL outdoes US Airways in the ?Look what we can suck into our engines without injuring any passengers? game?

Yesterday at Los Angeles International Airport a Japan Airlines (JAL) flight was grounded after one of its engines managed to suck up a container. JAL Flight 61, a 747-400, managed to wedge the container in the engine. There were 264 passengers on board but no one was injured and they were all taken back to the terminal to await a replacement flight. The cause of the accident is not yet known and an investigation is currently underway.

While the container is a lot larger than the flock of Canadian geese that a US Airways flight managed to suck into it?s engines after taking off from La Guardia Airport in New York, we?re not sure the JAL flight could have performed a graceful a water landing had the emergency taken place on take off. A 747-400 is just a tiny bit bigger than an Airbus A320.

Now, would someone from LAN Airlines like to say how one of their containers ended up in the JAL 747???

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