LAX: Video of baggage cart stuck in Japan Airlines 747 engine

This CNN video of a baggage cart stuck in an engine of Japan Airlines Flight 61 headed for Narita International Airport out of Los Angeles International Airport is making the rounds in the Twittersphere. No harm (and thankfully no fowl), the picture is just something incredible to look at.

“Airport officials said the vacuum created by the air intake of the left outboard engine was so strong it pulled the empty container off a baggage cart that was either parked or driven too close to the aircraft,” reported Dan Weikel in “Metal baggage container sucked into jet engine at LAX.”

In semi-related plane obstruction news — the FAA’s Bird Strike Database recently went public, and users can look up information on birds hitting planes.  Sort the reports by date, airport, state, operator, aircraft, and/or species. A simple search for all species in California turned up a few thousand unknown birds/bats being hit most often. The next highest species was the mourning dove, 407 birds in 13 strikes. The FAA admits that the data is far from complete. Read FAA’s Bird Strike Database Goes Public.

— Jen Leo, Los Angeles Times Travel & Deal blogger

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