Watch This Jet Suck A Safety Pylon Into Its Engine

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Paul Thompson
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A few seconds into this video, we see an absent-minded ramp agent appear from the right side of the screen and place a safety pylon on front of the number one engine of an American Eagle Embraer 170 regional jet.

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Unfortunately, the video doesn't say when or where this happened, but we'll pass along the information as we learn it. What is certain is that the pylon definitely would have caused a lot of damage to the engine.

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Update - a reader has informed me that this happened at Chicago O'Hare Airport (ORD). The engine sustained no major damage.