A leading safety board said an employee who was sucked into an airplane’s engine at an Alabama airport was warned about the dangers of getting too close to the machine right before the tragic incident.
According to a preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board on Monday, several rules were not observed, despite two meetings regarding the protocol minutes earlier in the day.
The NTSB concluded that Courtney Edwards, a 34-year-old ramp personnel for Piedmont Airlines, a subsidiary of American Airlines, was consumed by a plane engine on New Year’s Eve because of human error.
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According to the report obtained by Atlanta Black Star, the accident happened around 3:40 p.m. on Dec. 31.
An Embraer 170 airplane, arriving from Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) to Montgomery, was “parked at the gate with one engine running at Montgomery Regional Airport (MGM)” when a “ramp personnel was fatally injured,” the report states.
The flight was fully…
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