Plane mechanic killed after being sucked into engine of Boeing passenger jet while ‘trying to retrieve tool’ in Iran
AN AVIATION mechanic has tragically died after getting sucked into a Boeing passenger jet’s engine.
Local technician Abolfazl Amiri was busy doing his routine maintenance work when the incident occurred at Chabahar Konarak airport in southern Iran.
The engine on the right wing of the plane was turned on for a test check with the cover flaps open.
And a safety area was set up around the turbine as standard practice to avoid fatal accidents.
But when Amiri realised he had forgotten a tool near the engine, he went towards the turbine and got sucked in, Bild reports.
The engine soon caught fire and emergency responders were called in who then recovered Amiri’s remains from the engine.
An investigation into the incident has now been launched by the Iranian aviation authority.
It comes after another person was killed by a running plane engine at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport in May.
Horrified passengers onboard a KLM plane heard the horrific death as they prepared for takeoff for Denmark.
In June last year, an airport worker was killed after he was sucked into a plane’s engine at San Antonio International Airport in Texas.
The death of David Renner, 27, was later ruled a suicide.
Airline worker Courtney Edwards, 34, was also tragically killed after being pulled into a jet engine in December 2022.
The gruesome incident “shook the entire plane” at Montgomery Regional Airport, Alabama, on New Year’s Eve.
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