An airline worker died after being 'ingested into the engine' of a plane, NTSB says - At least it wasn't Southwest

An airline ground crew worker in Alabama died after being "ingested into the engine" of a parked plane on Saturday, said the National Transportation Safety Board.

In a statement provided to NPR, the NTSB said it has opened an investigation into the death. The incident involved an Embraer 170 aircraft, a medium-range jet that can hold about 70 passengers, which had flown from Dallas Fort-Worth to the Montgomery Regional Airport.

The victim, whose name has yet to be released, was employed by Piedmont Airlines, a subsidiary of American Airlines that operates at more than 80 airports. Neither company responded to NPR's request for comment.

"We are saddened to hear about the tragic loss of a team member of the AA/Piedmont Airlines," said Wade A. Davis, the airport's executive director. "Our thoughts and prayers are with the family during this difficult time."

The airport grounded all flights for five hours after the incident, which occurred around 3 p.m. on New Year's Eve.

People briefed on the matter told Reuters that the engine was running at the time of the incident. The NTSB confirmed the parking brake on the aircraft was also set.

More details on the death will be released in a preliminary report in two to three weeks, the NTSB said.

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[Spicey McHaggis]

No extensive NTSB investigation and ruling necessary, it was all on camera. We'll probably see the footage some day. This dipshit walked right in front of the running engine despite being briefed that the plane would continue to run its engines for some time after parking and the presence of the universal beacon which practically exists to clearly indicate "the engines are on or will be soon". Total disregard for common sense, let alone the rules of her job. Now her kids will be motherless, they're probably already fatherless. A tragedy, sure, but one born of hiring anyone with a pulse to fill an inherently dangerous role that requires a scrupulous person to do safely and well.

They still have to investigate to make sure that the person was actually trained as opposed to just being an idiot who ignored numerous regulations they were trained on. I'd be will to bet this woman had been ignoring numerous safety regulations for some time until she found out the hard way that safety codes are written in blood.

 

[AnOminous]

My thoughts exactly. If you're gonna go out in a freak accident, pray it's something as quick as getting pureed by a plane turbine.

It's not exactly a freak accident if you're so fucking stupid you stand so close to a jet engine that you get sucked into it and pureed instantaneously. I mean other than that if this happens to you, you are literally a freak.

 

[ZazietheBeast]

There is one general rule when it comes to things that can kill you in seconds. "Don't Act Dumb."

She acted dumb and now paid the price.

 

[Amber the Hedgehog]

They still have to investigate to make sure that the person was actually trained as opposed to just being an idiot who ignored numerous regulations they were trained on. I'd be will to bet this woman had been ignoring numerous safety regulations for some time until she found out the hard way that safety codes are written in blood.

Plus as gruesome it might sound, I'm fairly certain that they want to study affects of human body on the engine. They do regularly put bird carcasses trough engines to demo birdstrikes and pig carcasses are used for other things including what might happen if human got sucked to an engine. They now have pretty perfect opportunity to see if their previous studies hold up as other variables are so clearly on display as whole thing was captured on camera.

 

[DamnWolves!]

I come bearing memes

 

[MeganDodgedABullet]

damn, that's some Ogrish shit.

 

[God's drunkest driver]

They still have to investigate to make sure that the person was actually trained as opposed to just being an idiot who ignored numerous regulations they were trained on. I'd be will to bet this woman had been ignoring numerous safety regulations for some time until she found out the hard way that safety codes are written in blood.

Oh please, these people probably have to sit through a week of watching videos then a period of handholding just like employees of any large company do these days. It's unrealistic to assume the issue was a lack of awareness that you should verify that an engine isn't running before you walk in front of it because it will suck your dumb ass up. You don't need to be an aerospace engineer who can set up a simulation of the pressure field and streamlines around a running CF34-8E5 to understand from a simple explanation and maybe a safety video that red light means engines on and you should take the lazy short path when walking around the aircraft but the long way that avoids the ingestion zone.

Plus as gruesome it might sound, I'm fairly certain that they want to study affects of human body on the engine. They do regularly put bird carcasses trough engines to demo birdstrikes and pig carcasses are used for other things including what might happen if human got sucked to an engine. They now have pretty perfect opportunity to see if their previous studies hold up as other variables are so clearly on display as whole thing was captured on camera.

That theory doesn't seem to pass muster since it has been reported the NTSB didn't dispatch any teams to the scene. It has already been cleaned up.

 

[Amber the Hedgehog]

Oh please, these people probably have to sit through a week of watching videos then a period of handholding just like employees of any large company do these days. It's unrealistic to assume the issue was a lack of awareness that you should verify that an engine isn't running before you walk in front of it because it will suck your dumb ass up. You don't need to be an aerospace engineer who can set up a simulation of the pressure field and streamlines around a running CF34-8E5 to understand from a simple explanation and maybe a safety video that red light means engines on and you should take the lazy short path when walking around the aircraft but the long way that avoids the ingestion zone.


That theory doesn't seem to pass muster since it has been reported the NTSB didn't dispatch any teams to the scene. It has already been cleaned up.

They don't have come, you can just send the engine to them. The engine is unusable regardless, just like it would be after a birdstrike. There would be no high priority to study the scene itself as we know what happened there. The insides of the engine are the intresting part, assuming they are intrested in the first place. They might not find it good use of money as the reasons for the accident are fairly clear but otherhand what happens to humans sucked in is a common question normies ask. It might be media sexy enough to get studied.

 

[Paul Pelosi's Boyfriend]

If the government really wanted to test what would happen if a body went in a jet engine they would just dress a medical cadaver in tarmac gear and toss it in. They could have even gotten a dead black woman if they wanted.

Strange events do get planned just to create newspaper stories though so who knows.

 

[AnOminous]

It is not like it is difficult not to get sucked into a jet engine. You basically have to be one of the dumbest, most low-IQ retards on the planet to die this way. Because jet engines are expensive, it is important that we keep literal mental retards too dumb not to get sucked into a jet engine far away from jet engines, not give them a job where they do that.

It is just tough shit if for some reason, unknown to anyone, people of the Negroid persuasion are disproportionately excluded from jobs where "not being fucking stupid enough not to get sucked into a jet engine" is a prerequisite.

No shit. You don't get sucked into a jet engine that isn't running.

"He got run over by a car." "But was the car moving?" <-- identify the journalist in this exchange

Similar exchanges:

Q: "So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?"

A: "No."

Q: "How can you be so sure, Doctor?"

A: "Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar."

Q: "But could the patient have still been alive nevertheless?"

A: "It is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere."

 

[heathercho]

Jets have been around for ages. They have absolutely studied human ingestion in military experiments.

It's hideous, but she was your typical arrogant black woman. You can't tell them what to do, even if it's for their own safety.

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

You can't tell them what to do, even if it's for their own safety.

"You ain't the boss of me!"
>I literally am. I am your direct supervisor.
"I don't take orders from you."
>YOU LITERALLY DO! I AM LITERALLY LEGALLY EMPOWERED TO GIVE YOU ORDERS!
"You ain't gots no awe-thor-it-tee over me!"
>BITCH, YOU'RE AN E1 AND I'M AN E5! IT IS LITERALLY WRITTEN INTO LAW THAT I DO!
"You bess step off, mah fawdder don't order me 'round.
>Oh for fuck's sake.
"Yo, why that cracker motherfucker get promoted over me?"
>Because reasons.
"Don't tell me what I can and can't do!"
>Uh... that's not practice DS2.
"I do what I want!"
>Watches her give herself chemical burns
"YOU DID DAT ON PURR-POISE!"
>FML

 

[Sulla]

I imagine it went down like this.

 

[CuzinEd]

There was a guy during the first gulf war that got sucked into the engine of a jet on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier and he survived. True story.

Told you it was real.

 

[JosephStalin]

Long story short: it was a black woman who had repeatedly violated safety rules regarding walking in front of running jet engines.

A coworker saw her going in to an area literally called "the ingestion zone"

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Alabama mom of 3 ‘violently’ sucked into plane engine was warned to stay back: NTSB

Courtney Edwards, 34, a mom-of-three working for Piedmont Airlines, was sucked into a jet engine at an Alabama airport after apparently ignoring repeated warnings to stay away from the back of the …

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An Alabama airport worker who was sucked into a plane engine was pulled in so violently that it shook the entire aircraft, killing her after she had been repeatedly warned to keep her distance, federal investigators found.

Mom of three Courtney Edwards, 34, has been identified as the ground handling agent who was killed in the accident at Montgomery Regional Airport on New Year’s Eve.

The report revealed that prior to her death, a co-worker saw Edwards nearly knocked over by the exhaust from a jet and tried to warn her to keep her distance until the engines were shut down.

Another ground worker on the other side of the Embraer E175 jet had backed away after a pilot leaned out the window and said the engines were still running.

But moments later, Edwards walked in front of one of the engines of the plane carrying an orange safety cone and was “pulled off her feet and into the operating engine,” according to the report.

A co-pilot reported that the “airplane shook violently followed by the immediate automatic shutdown.”

The flight from Dallas with 59 passengers and four crew members on board was operated by Envoy Air, an affiliate of American Airlines.

An auxiliary power unit used to power the plane without using the engines was not working, according to the safety board, and pilots decided to leave both engines running for a two-minute engine cool-down period while they waited for the plane to be connected to ground power.

The NTSB said the ground crew held a safety meeting 10 minutes before the flight’s arrival, followed by a second safety “huddle” held immediately before the Embraer jet reached the gate, “to reiterate that the engines would remain running” and the plane shouldn’t be approached until the engines were shut down and the pilots turned off the beacon light.

Throughout the incident, rotating beacons on the plane appeared to be illuminated, warning that engines were still running, investigators said.

Video surveillance showed Edwards walking along the edge of the plane’s left wing and in front of the first engine.

A co-worker yelled and waved Edwards off. She began to move away from the plane, but then he heard a “bang,” and the engine shut down, according to the preliminary report.

Those who didn't listen just had to feel.

 

[Vargerd]

I stand by my previous comments in the thread. Jet engines are loud and you can physically just feel them being on even if you're 50 feet off to the side of them and not in either their intake or output path. there was also the big, red, bright spinning beacon under the plane telling you to fuck off and not enter the plane's perimiter. you'd at least think people would have seen the jackass stunt where the guy sat in the chair behind a jet engine and got sent tumbling backwards like 30 feet.
Really the only problem is this room temp iq moron managed to pop out 3 kids before dying to rampant retardation.

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

Another meme

 

[TowinKarz]

Sometimes I think we'd be better off trying to uplift dolphins to full sentience than trying to get sassy black women to practice basic self-preservation.

 

[Tomato flowers]

Bless her heart.

 

[Stoneheart]

I come here every day looking for a video of the sucking but no luck till now...