Airport worker killed after being ‘sucked into plane’s engine’

The employee died whereas the airplane was parked at Montgomery Regional Airport in Alabama (Image: HUM Photographs/Common Photographs Group)

An airline floor crew employee has died after he was ‘ingested into the engine’ of an American Airways airplane in Alabama.

The US Nationwide Transportation Security Board mentioned the employee was killed whereas the plane’s engine was working at Montgomery Regional Airport on Saturday, Insider studies.

The company has opened an investigation into the loss of life, saying ‘a preliminary report is predicted in two to a few weeks’.

Airport bosses mentioned the accident occurred round 3pm on Saturday, and the employee was employed by Piedmont Airways, a subsidiary of the American Airways Group.

Wade Davis, the airport’s govt director, mentioned: ‘We're saddened to listen to in regards to the tragic lack of a group member of the AA/Piedmont Airways.

‘Our ideas and prayers are with the household throughout this troublesome time.’

American Airways has mentioned it's ‘devastated’ by the loss of life (Image: Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs)

American Airways added it was ‘devastated by the accident’.

‘We're centered on making certain all concerned have the assist they want throughout this troublesome time,’ its assertion mentioned.

Final month a person’s physique was discovered on a TUI airplane that had flown from Gambia to London’s Gatwick Airport.

The unidentified black male was found within the airplane’s undercarriage at 4am on December 7.

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