A subsidiary of American Airlines has received a hefty fine following the death of a worker who was ingested into a plane's engine.
The airport’s ground crew apparently held two safety briefings minutes prior to the plane’s arrival at the gate, and workers were instructed not to go near it until the engine was cut off and a light beacon was switched into the off position.
When the plane arrived, the pilot was informed the front cargo door was being opened in the moments he was working to close down one of the aircraft’s engines.Moments later, the woman reportedly disappeared and the tragic incident happened not long afterwards. “You have people coming to the belly of that plane perhaps to unload cargo, fuel the airplane,” aviation expert Joseph Swieterman“Their equipment, their body is near the intake of those engines. And so when a judgment call is made, things are safe and you have an active engine, you have tremendous amounts of thrust that could ingest a worker,” he added.
Meanwhile, the National Transportation Safety Board largely blamed the woman by saying she was killed when she moved too close to the engine, the
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