WASHINGTON — US regulators mentioned Sunday they’re investigating an incident through which a Texas airport employee was killed after being sucked right into a passenger airplane engine.
A Delta flight had arrived in San Antonio, Texas from Los Angeles on Friday night time and was taxiing to the gate with one engine on “when a worker was ingested into that engine,” the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) informed AFP in a press release.
“The NTSB is continuing to gather information about the event,” it mentioned.
The employee was employed by Unifi Aviation, an organization the airline large contracts with for floor crew operations, in line with native media.
Delta informed San Antonio broadcaster KENS 5 that the corporate was “deeply saddened” by Friday night time’s occasions and that it’s “cooperating with authorities as they begin their investigation.”
Unifi Aviation informed the broadcaster the incident was “a tragic accident.”
“From our initial investigation, this incident was unrelated to Unifi’s operational processes, safety procedures and policies,” the corporate mentioned.
On Wednesday, regional service Piedmont Airlines was fined $15,625 by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), one other regulatory physique, for the demise of a floor crew employee final 12 months in an identical incident.
“Proper training and enforcement of safety procedures could have prevented this tragedy,” an OSHA official mentioned.
Piedmont is a subsidiary of service American Airlines. — Agence France-Presse
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