Posted on 01/01/2023 11:40:43 AM PST by dennisw
Alabama airport baggage handler is killed 'after being SUCKED into American Airlines' plane engine' while it was parked at gate before flight to Dallas A baggage handler died after being sucked into a plane's engine The American Airlines employee was working on the ramp at Montgomery Regional Airport in Alabama around 3pm Saturday Airport operations were shut down in the aftermath Both the FAA and NTSB are investigating the incident
A baggage handler has died after apparently being sucked into a plane's engine in a freak New Year's Eve accident.
Authorities say the unidentified employee was working on the ramp at Montgomery Regional Airport in Alabama at around 3pm Saturday, when he was said to be sucked into the running engine of an Envoy Air flight that was parked ahead of its scheduled flight to Dallas, Texas. .
The victim has not yet been publicly identified, but was an employee of Piedmont Airlines. Both Envoy and Piedmont are regional subsidiaries of American Airlines.
Montgomery Regional Airport was closed in the immediate aftermath, but resumed operations late Saturday night, according to the Montgomery Advertiser.
Both the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transpiration Safety Board are investigating the incident.
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This is very rough on his family. The airport handed over his remains. They were wrapped in a package like a 3 pound package of hamburger meat at Publix
were they running up the engines getting ready to move???
A whole bunch of people are going to start paying attention to the safety refresher training again.
For a few months.
Those jet engines on an airplane are mighty powerful. Anything that can life 200+ obese people and their heavy luggage into the air is nothing to scoff at.
lift, not life...I hate auto correct.
What an awful thing to have happened to this man and his family.
My husband was in the building business before he retired. Commercial construction. He had a big problem with sub-contractors bringing illegal aliens onto the job site who could not read even basic English. Signs such as “High voltage” and “Danger-do not touch”, and such were often ignored because the laborers could not read the warning signs. “Do Not Walk Past this Red Line when Light is Flashing” would be meaningless to them. I’m not saying that is what happened here, but it reminded me of the stories he would often tell how major incidents were narrowly avoided.
Someone screwed up, badly
I worked on flight lines around running aircraft engines for years. You have to be pretty stupid or some pilot didn’t follow the rules for something like this to happen.
Wonder if it was a last minute piece of baggage that came through or had to be moved from the plane to the cargo area.
Same here. In the USAF servicing AC w electronic equip, and then later on flightlines as a private pilot.
Years ago, I was talking w an Air Force crew chief one time who got a little close to a T-38 w engines spooling, and his cap was sucked from his head and into the relatively small intake of the trainer.
At a later date, caps disappeared from the flightline.
It's the pilots responsibility to clear the area before cranking an engine, and it's the ground crew's responsibility to avoid engine props, intakes, and thrust fields.
As to your illegal alien reply...Yup and guess what?
They are starting to drive semi trucks. Or, have been for some time.
That is why when we travel, we try and stay to hell off the interstates as much as possible.
That doesn't happen with the big turbofans in use today. A body just isn't big enough to plug the air intake.
That’s one hell of a survival story
I’ve flown out of Montgomery 100s of times. Sad story!
“That is why when we travel, we try and stay to hell off the interstates as much as possible.”
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We do the same. I’d rather take 30 minutes to an hour extra and stay off the interstates when we travel in our RV. It’s a slower, safer pace, and we discover some amazing little out of the way treasures as a bonus.
“Ladies and gentleman, there will be a slight delay to our scheduled departure.”
“This airline really sucks.”
...if only they knew how bad things really were.
Thankfully, this is rare. However the NTSB is going to be all over this because it is rare enough it indicates a major failure to follow standard procedures. The only question is was it the flight crew, ground crew, or management where the failure occurred?
Analysis of Federal Highway Administration data found that in 2019, the fatality rate per 100 million vehicle miles traveled was 0.55 on interstates compared with 1.3 on all other roads.
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