Aircraft operated by KLM was preparing to depart when incident occurred at busy Amsterdam hub
A person has died after falling into the spinning turbine blades of a departing passenger jet at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport.
The death occurred on the apron outside the busy hub’s terminal as a KLM flight was preparing to depart for Billund in Denmark.
“A fatal incident took place at Schiphol today during which a person ended up in a running aircraft engine,” the Dutch flag carrier, KLM, said in a statement. “Sadly the person has died.” The victim has not yet been named.
How does someone fall into a running Turbine?
More than likely they got sucked in. That can and has happened.
Read somewhere else that the engine in that plane lies really close to the ground, and the guy (maintenance worker on his first day) got suckered in. Can’t say if any of this is true but that’s what I read.
What a fucking nightmare.
Yes of course, but I expect the death was nigh instantaneous for thr victim so hopefully not so much as an “oh shit” moment.
He will be immortalized as a cautionary tale.
Lead tech: “Welcome to your first day on the job.” points to a picture of a bloody turbine and a newspaper clipping “Do not be this guy.”
The engines can suck you in from a suprisingly far distance, IIRC. They are every dangerous when active.
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They fly Embraer btw
That sucks
I don’t know if your comment is a pun or not
Sorry for the mispunderstanding 😇
According to someone I know who works there it was someone who was in training as a push-back chauffeur (those trucks that push the planes away from the terminal)
It’s said he wanted to pick something off the ground close to the engine.
That’s a pretty bad way to go. :(
At least they were probably killed instantly and hopefully didn’t even feel it.
Having sustained some moderate injuries throughout my life, I’m confident they didn’t even know what happened, it was just lights out.
Even with serious injuries it can take surprisingly long for the pain to really ramp up. Something that fast, they probably didn’t even have time to be scared much less experience physical discomfort.
When it was reported on the radio news yesterday they said “jumped into the engine”. I cannot find anything else to confirm if that’s true. Either way it’s horrific.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A person has died after falling into the spinning turbine blades of a departing passenger jet at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport.
The death occurred on the apron outside the busy hub’s terminal as a KLM flight was preparing to depart for Billund in Denmark.
“A fatal incident took place at Schiphol today during which a person ended up in a running aircraft engine,” the Dutch flag carrier, KLM, said in a statement.
Dutch border police, who are responsible for security at the Netherlands’ largest airport, said passengers had been removed from the plane and an investigation opened.
The aircraft involved is a short-haul Embraer jet used by KLM’s Cityhopper service, which operates flights to nearby destinations such as London, Dutch news reports said.
A picture posted by the Dutch public broadcaster, NOS, showed the plane surrounded by fire trucks and ambulances next to the departure terminals.
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Gruesome death. 😬 grinded into meat paste.
They took ‘woensdag gehaktdag’ (Wednesday Minced Meat day) a bit too literal. ☹️
Was it a boeing plane ?
The aircraft involved is a short-haul Embraer jet used by KLM’s Cityhopper service
If its a boeing they will put it in the headline for more clicks
Even these little clicks on mobile devices halfway round the world tend to really wear hard on Boeing hardware.
Or, if it had been a Boeing, then only the plane, but not the person, would have been injured in the accident.
The plane was an Embraer ERJ-190, a twin-engine jet, according to FlightAware, a website that tracks air travel. The jet carries up to 100 people, and is known as the “Cityhopper,” because it is used for short flights within Europe, according to the airline.
C’hopper info via NYT (paywall)
