The National Transportation Safety Board has released its preliminary report into the deadly New Year’s Eve incident at Montgomery Regional Airport in which a member of ground crew personnel was “ingested into the engine” of a parked airplane.
, a 34-year-old mother, was part of ramp personnel for Piedmont Airlines, a subsidiary of American Airlines, when she was killed in the incident.
American Eagle flight ENY3408 arrived from Dallas Fort Worth to Montgomery Regional Airport around 2:40 p.m. following an uneventful flight, the report stated. The flight crew decided to leave both engines running for a required two-minute “engine cool down period.” As the captain was beginning to shutdown the engine on the right side, an alert in the cockpit indicated the forward cargo door had been opened, prompting the plane’s first officer to open his cockpit window to inform the ramp agent that engines were still running.
The NTSB report notes that the accident sequence was captured on surveillance video. The camera recorded four ramp agents during the incident, including one who “appeared walking towards the back of the airplane with an orange safety cone where she disappeared from view.”“The ramp agent from the back of the airplane reappeared and began walking away from the airplane and towards the left wing tip where she disappeared from the camera’s field of view.
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