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Show Jet Engine Rough on Man Who Was Sucked into Nose DETROIT. Mich. SSgt Robert A. Lewis escaped recently from what the air force had considered sure death. He was sucked into the nose of a jet engine. His life was saved by a fellow air national guard mechanic. Joe Cusenza saw something sticking out of the air scoop. When he saw it was a foot he jumped off the wing of the plane and grabbed it. Cusenza clung desperately to Lewis, bracing his legs against the mouth of the scoop Into which there was also danger of his being drawn by the powerful jet engine. MSgt. Bill Vedrody who was in the cockpit giving the engine a trial ground runup, cut the switch when he felt the engine running "rough". Lewis and Cusenza plopped five feet to the ground with the release of suction. Lewis said he had reached front of the air scoop to grab a streamer being sucked into It. Capt. John E. Wood said Lewis was lucky his eyes weren't pulled from their sockets. Contents of Lewis' pockets were sucked into the engine, the zipper torn from his jacket, his gloves turned wrong side out and pulled off. |
