Belgian F-16 pilot ejects and falls on 250 KV power line - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: soldar
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2019, 05:55:36 pm
content: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49751536It looks to me the guy is lucky to be alive. You do not need to touch a HV wire to get electrocuted. I remember a driver of a dump truck who raised the thing under a power line and was killed when arc jumped the still considerable distance.

author: FreddieChopin
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2019, 06:13:27 pm
content: Some poo's come out

author: Neilm
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2019, 07:14:22 pm
content: Linemen work on live power rails all the time. As long as he was far enough from the ground (which looks as if he was) he would be perfectly safe.

author: floobydust
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2019, 07:21:47 pm
content: We had a hot air balloon crash into 144kV or maybe 240kV lines and the basket made an arc (phase-phase). The guy got killed due to auto-reclosing. Once an arc occurs, protection relays will open breakers and then quickly reclose, trying three times before going into lockout.Problem is even if you open breakers and de-energize the power line, capacitive coupling from adjacent lines can keep them hot enough. We always put on ground chains on a line to work on them.

author: Mr. Scram
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2019, 08:02:04 pm
content: Quote from: Neilm on September 19, 2019, 07:14:22 pmExcept he could still fall to his death.

author: Gyro
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2019, 08:10:08 pm
content: He was damned lucky that it was a single circuit 3 phase horizontally spaced line and not the more common dual circuit one with three vertically spaced lines on each side!

author: soldar
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2019, 08:59:10 pm
content: Quote from: Gyro on September 19, 2019, 08:10:08 pmIt would have been like those bug zappers. I am glad it all turned out well but, still, it must have been an electrifying experience for him.

author: ledtester
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2019, 10:06:28 pm
content: Quote from: soldar on September 19, 2019, 08:59:10 pmNo matter how it turned out he was bound to be shocked

author: soldar
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2019, 10:20:55 pm
content: In the end it was a positive outcome for a current event which generated a lot of interest.I just hope he's not charged. That would be a negative outcome for him.

author: schmitt trigger
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2019, 10:38:00 pm
content: When it’s not yet your turn to die....

author: Stray Electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 20, 2019, 01:30:07 am
content: Dammed lucky to be alive; twice in as many minutes!

author: soldar
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 20, 2019, 07:24:51 am
content: Watt he did is he tried to rectify a dangerous operational. He was discharged from the hospital the same day. He said his left leg hertz and he will be physically incapacitated for some weeks but the event had transformed him into a new, more positive person and he is all charged to rejoin the force.

author: SteveyG
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 20, 2019, 03:08:23 pm
content: Quote from: Neilm on September 19, 2019, 07:14:22 pmThat's not quite true. Have you heard of corona? Have you noticed birds don't sit on ultra HT power lines?

author: soldar
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 20, 2019, 03:35:44 pm
content: https://youtu.be/9YmFHAFYwmY?t=0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x94BH9TUiHM?t=0