US airport worker dies after being sucked into plane engine
- Airline worker was ‘ingested’ into an engine of a Delta Air Lines Airbus A319 at San Antonio International Airport in Texas
- The National Transportation Safety Board said it is continuing to gather information about the event on Friday night
US regulators said on Sunday they are investigating an incident in which a Texas airport worker was killed after being sucked into a passenger plane engine.
A Delta Air Lines Airbus A319 had arrived in San Antonio, Texas from Los Angeles on Friday night and was taxiing to the gate with one engine on “when a worker was ingested into that engine,” the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) told Agence France-Presse in a statement.
“The NTSB is continuing to gather information about the event,” it said.
The worker was employed by Unifi Aviation, a company the airline giant contracts with for ground crew operations, according to local media.
Delta told San Antonio broadcaster KENS 5 that the company was “deeply saddened” by Friday night’s events and that it is “cooperating with authorities as they begin their investigation.”
Unifi Aviation told the broadcaster the incident was “a tragic accident”.
