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Exclusive | LA-bound family on horror flight reveals gruesome moment plane struck person

California Post·Ross O'Keefe·6 months ago
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A Nebraska father and his two sons on a trip to Los Angeles for a Pokémon Go tournament nearly met a harrowing end on Friday’s cursed Frontier flight, which saw a man shredded in their plane’s engine.

56-year-old John Anthens thought he and his two sons, 30-year-old Jacob and 19-year-old Levi, were going to die in the seconds following the plane’s engine sucking an unidentified pedestrian in.

“When the engine blew up, I thought, ‘oh sh*t, we’re all going to die,” John Anthens said.

Anthens said he felt the nose of the plane pitch up before what sounded like a “bomb” rocked the cabin.

Jacob said his father was looking out the window when it happened and witnessed a gruesome sight.

Human legs twirling in the engine.

Passengers evacuating a Frontier Airlines flight at night. madicartas/TikTok

“My dad said when the engine fire went up, he was able to see the legs of a human spinning around in the engine…which sounds like emotional trauma to me,” Jacob said.

John poses on the left with Jacob, right.…

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