Posted on 01/26/2023 7:58:53 AM PST by montag813
by Jim Clayborn
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released a preliminary report regarding the death of an airport worker at the Montgomery Regional Airport in Alabama on New Year’s Eve.
The report indicated that Courtney Edwards, 34, a ramp agent for American Airlines subsidiary, Piedmont Airlines, was killed after she was sucked into a plane engine despite being warned not to get close to the engine.
At around 2:40 p.m., American Eagle flight ENY3408 from Dallas-Fort Worth arrived at the gate following an “uneventful flight,” according to the NTSB report via Alabama News Network. After stopping the plane, the crew let both engines keep running for the required two-minute engine cool-down period as they waited for the plane to be connected to the power in the ground.
The crew did this since they were operating with a broken auxiliary power unit.
As crew members were shutting down the engines, they got an alert that the cargo door was open. The first officer opened his window from the cockpit to let the ramp agents know that the engines were still running, while the captain announced for passengers to remain in their seats.
The first officer then reported he “saw a warning light illuminate and the airplane shook violently followed by the immediate automatic shutdown of the number 1 engine,” according to the report. “Unsure of what had occurred, he extinguished the emergency lights and shut off both batteries before leaving the flight deck to investigate.”
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LOL!!! Most things tend to work themselves out! They were probably trying to make her a pilot!
that was a mess
Or massive safety cages on them.
Professional airline pilot and general knowledge wizard Blancolirio, has an excellent video analysis of this accident on his YouTube channel.
Benjamin Crump gonna sue to mandate all airport employees be trained in Ebonics
Or “She didn’t listen the first time.”
"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."
— Benjamin Franklin
HAHAHA
Thats racist ... or so they say
Safety briefings are a form of white supremacy.
They were started by the plantation owner, when he would ride around the fields and yell at the slaves not to cut their hands off with the knives or chopping tools that had and explain to them how much a healthy slave costs to replace them.
"...one crew member had noticed that Edwards had nearly been knocked over by the plane’s exhaust and issued yet another warning for Edwards to give the engines a wide berth."It pays to listen to warnings that God sends you.
Maybe she wanted to show him Who’s The Boss Of Me.
~16 minute video of 777 pilot Juan Browne discussing the accident.
NTSB Preliminary Report Ramp Agent Fatality 31 Dec 2022 Montgomery Al.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QGi9RIIF-E
Yikes! Talk about being buried at sea!
This individual had a ‘no mofo chuck gonna tell me what to do’ expression and I suppose she found out the hard way that being stupid really does make life harder.
Maybe they will go with their dad.
In the end... You need to be aware of what's going on around you. This poor lady was apparently oblivious to her immediate surroundings and paid the ultimate price.
Darwin award winner of the week.
The critical outstanding story for the industry is whether the rampers were under pressure to turn around this plane in minimum time and started cutting corners with safety procedures.
Here’s a detailed analysis of what happened from an actual airline pilot. There were several factors that lead to the aircraft running the engines while parked at the ramp rather than shutting down immediately and going to ground power or APU.
https://youtu.be/2QGi9RIIF-E
there is video somewhere of a military man getting taken into a jet engine- but he survived-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsA92QnWXdY
Before the plane arrived, ground crew members held a ten-minute safety meeting “to reiterate that the engines would remain running until ground power was connected,” according to the NTSB.The ground crew was also informed that they should not approach the plane until the engines were turned down and the pilots turned off the rotating beacon light.
An American Eagle ground operations manual, released in July 2022, also states that the ground crew should never approach within 15 feet of the engine when running.
[...and this is very sad] Edwards is survived by her three children, her mother, and other family and friends, according to the Montgomery Advertiser.
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