Airport worker dies after being 'ingested' into plane engine in Alabama

[Still Waters]

An airport worker has died after being "ingested" into a plane engine in the US state of Alabama.

The accident happened about 3pm on Saturday at Montgomery Regional Airport after American Airlines Flight 3408 had arrived from Dallas.

The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said the ground crew worker was "ingested into the engine" of an aircraft while it was parked at the gate, CBS News reported.

The worker - who was an employee of Piedmont Airlines, a regional subsidiary of American Airlines - has not yet been named.

The Federal Aviation Administration and NTSB are investigating the incident.

https://news.sky.com/story/airport-worker-dies-after-being-ingested-into-plane-engine-in-alabama-12778307

[Alchopwn]

Something similar happened in 1991 but even weirder.  A sailor on USS Theodore Roosevelt was sucked into the engine of an A-6E Intruder and survived. 

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The rest of the crew treated him like a Jonah (one who brings bad luck to a ship) afterwards.  Not exactly fair, but his survival was nothing short of miraculous...  Or infernal?

[Scholar4Truth]

An airport worker who died after being sucked into a jet engine last month was warned not to go near it, federal investigators said. https://news.yahoo.com/airport-worker-killed-being-sucked-123554916.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

[+and-then]

I didn't know this had happened in my home state.  A small airport in Montgomery.  She had 3 kids.  The piece I saw explained in detail how ground personnel are trained for safety and she made a mistake.  The aircraft advances up to a specific point on the apron that's marked by lines forming a "barrier" 15ft from the nose and wings.  Apparently she had already had a couple of near misses   I hope it was quick for her.  

[Hankenhunter]

51 minutes ago, and-then said:

I didn't know this had happened in my home state.  A small airport in Montgomery.  She had 3 kids.  The piece I saw explained in detail how ground personnel are trained for safety and she made a mistake.  The aircraft advances up to a specific point on the apron that's marked by lines forming a "barrier" 15ft from the nose and wings.  Apparently she had already had a couple of near misses   I hope it was quick for her.  

I really doubt she felt anything. I wonder what distracted her enough to wander into the danger zone?

My thoughts go out to her kids. 

 

[the13bats]

Not this epic but the same idea in a way, it was way back late 80s a very good buddy got a job at a warehouse on a loading dock he hadnt been there long but a truck backing in to the dock crushed him, it was really weird as they had all kinds of safety checks in place, he was blamed for it.

[Myles]

9 hours ago, the13bats said:

Not this epic but the same idea in a way, it was way back late 80s a very good buddy got a job at a warehouse on a loading dock he hadnt been there long but a truck backing in to the dock crushed him, it was really weird as they had all kinds of safety checks in place, he was blamed for it.

So he was outside where the trucks back up?

When I was younger working at an office supply distributer in Indianapolis, I was loading a  couch onto a truck trailer.  When I had the front 2 wheels on the trailer the driver pulled out.  It pulled the forklift off the dock.  I dove onto the dock and was not hurt much.  Had I went down with it I would have been severely injured or dead.  We had a procedure in place that the drivers could not get into their trucks without the paperwork of the load being completely loaded.  The driver didn't follow the rules.   We required them to leave their keys in the new policy.