An employee of a Texas airport died on Friday after being “sucked” into the engine of a plane that had just landed on the runway, the Agence France-Presse of the US agency in charge of investigating transport accidents learned on Sunday ( NTSB).
The man was “sucked into the engine” of a Delta plane that had “landed at San Antonio International Airport from Los Angeles, California and was taxiing down the runway to reach the gate landing craft, with only one engine underway,” the NTSB said. .
An open investigation
The NTSB has opened an investigation to determine the consequences of this accident, which occurred on Friday around 10:25 p.m. local time.
The man worked for the company Unifi Aviation according to local media, a company that offers assistance services to several airlines, including Delta.
Delta airlines said they were “deeply saddened” by this accident and assured they would “cooperate with the authorities” who are leading the investigation, in a press release sent to the local channel KENS 5.
On Wednesday, Piedmont Airlines was fined more than $15,000 by the federal agency in charge of preventing workplace accidents (OSHA), for its responsibility in the fatal accident of an airport agent, which occurred last year in similar circumstances.
Source: BFM TV
