Hungry 747 eats luggage

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A Japan Airlines 747 has been grounded after a luggage container was sucked in to one of its engines.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8045086.stm

[Biggles]

And the pilot hadn`t noticed nor I presume had ATC, as it was police vehicles that drove along side to stop it from taking off ?

[davel]

I suppose the pilots were looking towards they were going not to what was happenning behind, but I would have thought there would have been some indication on the flight deck that there was a problem with that engine. However why was such a thing so close to the aircraft that it was able to be ingested? Good job is wasn't any of the ground crew.