A worker at a Texas airport died on Friday after being “sucked” into the engine of a plane that had just landed on the runway, the US agency in charge of investigating transport accidents (NTSB) said on Sunday.
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 heading to the gate with only one engine running,” the police said. NTSB.
The NTSB has opened an investigation to determine the causes of the accident, which occurred around 10:25 p.m. local time on Friday.
According to local media, the man worked for Unifi Aviation, a company that provides assistance services to several airlines, including Delta.
Delta declared itself “deeply saddened” by the accident and pledged to “cooperate with the authorities” conducting the investigation, in a statement broadcast by the local channel KENS 5.
On Wednesday, Piedmont Airlines was fined more than $15,000 by the federal agency responsible for preventing workplace accidents (OSHA), for its responsibility in the fatal accident of an airport worker, which occurred last year in similar circumstances.
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