A wedged arm keeps a worker from a jet's spinning blades
Zack D. Films' animated survival explainer drew roughly 3.3 million views since yesterday.
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Why this story? One of the most watched videos since yesterday, with 3,271,432 views.
He Was Sucked Into A Jet Engine Intake 😱
The wrench goes in first. Then the helmet, then the worker: a military flight-deck emergency unfolds in a brief 3D animation posted by Zack D. Films. The Short explains how a crew member caught in a jet engine intake survived, rather than showing footage of the incident itself.
In the video's account, several things interrupt the danger. Tools damage the engine, debris disrupts its mechanism, and the pilot cuts the throttle. But the crucial movement comes from the worker: his arm wedges his body against the intake wall, keeping him from reaching the spinning blades.
Other deck crew members then pull him out by his legs. The animation makes that braced position its central explanation, showing how the worker stays in place long enough for help to reach him.
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Where next?
- Channel
- Zack D. Films
- Subscribers
- 29,600,000 ▲ 100,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 748,841,850
- Channel views, pace per day
- 76,293,546 (on a normal day: 114,777,771)
- Video published
- November 5, 2026
- Video views so far
- 5,078,788 (2 days online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 3,274,710 (on a normal day: 3,859,441)
The numbers
The Short added more than three million views since yesterday, though its first-day viewing was not unusually high for Zack D. Films.

