Airline employee sucked into jet engine on ground dies

Airline employee sucked into jet engine on ground dies

The drama was interrupted while the clerk loaded the luggage onto the plane.

An airline employee American Airlines passed away this Saturday, December 31, 2022. On one of the tracksMontgomery Airport, Alabama (USA)). The “worker was fatally injured on the runway at Montgomery Regional Airport where American Airlines Flight 3408, an Embraer E175, was parked,” the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said in a statement shared with local media AL.com would. The employee would have been “picked up by engine”, the authorities said. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of the deceased,” the regional airport’s management responded on Twitter. The identity of the latter was not disclosed.

The circumstances of the tragedy unknown

The aircraft in question was parked at the gate with the handbrake on. He had to take off again for Dallas. The flight was canceled after the tragedy. No plane took off from the airport before 8:30 p.m. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the US National Transportation Safety Board said they had opened an investigation to shed light on the circumstances surrounding the tragedy.

Around 3:00pm today, an American Airlines ground crew member was involved in a fatality in Piedmont, no further information is available at this time. Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of the deceased.

— Montgomery Regional Airport (@flymgm) January 1, 2023