Texas airport employee dies after being sucked into Delta jet engine, probe on | World News

US regulators acknowledged Sunday they’re investigating an incident throughout which a Texas airport worker was killed after being sucked proper right into a passenger airplane engine.

A Delta flight had arrived in San Antonio, Texas from Los Angeles on Friday night time time and was taxiing to the gate with one engine on “when a worker was ingested into that engine,” the Nationwide Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) instructed AFP in an announcement.

“The NTSB is fixed to assemble particulars in regards to the event,” it acknowledged.

The worker was employed by Unifi Aviation, a corporation the airline giant contracts with for ground crew operations, in step with native media.

Delta instructed San Antonio broadcaster KENS 5 that the company was “deeply saddened” by Friday night time time’s events and that it’s “cooperating with authorities as they begin their investigation.”

Unifi Aviation instructed the broadcaster the incident was “a tragic accident.”

“From our preliminary investigation, this incident was unrelated to Unifi’s operational processes, safety procedures and insurance coverage insurance policies,” the company acknowledged.

On Wednesday, regional supplier Piedmont Airways was fined $15,625 by the Occupational Safety and Nicely being Administration (OSHA), one different regulatory physique, for the lack of lifetime of a ground crew worker closing 12 months in the identical incident.

“Right teaching and enforcement of safety procedures may need prevented this tragedy,” an OSHA official acknowledged.

Piedmont is a subsidiary of supplier American Airways.