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An individual died on Wednesday after they “ended up” inside a working airplane engine at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, officers mentioned, though the circumstances of the individual’s dying remained unclear.
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, the flag service of the Netherlands, mentioned in an announcement that the episode concerned its Flight KL1341, which had been scheduled to take off for Billund, Denmark.
“We are at present caring for the passengers and staff who witnessed the incident at Schiphol,” the airline mentioned.
It was unclear whether or not the one who died, whose identify had not been made public, entered the airplane’s engine or whether or not they had been pulled into it. KLM didn’t say whether or not the one who died was an airline worker or airport employee.
Schiphol Airport mentioned in a message posted in Dutch on social media that “there was a horrible incident the place an individual ended up in an airplane engine.”
“Our ideas exit to the family, and we’re caring for the passengers and colleagues who noticed this,” the airport mentioned.
The passengers onboard disembarked after the episode, the Dutch army police mentioned on social media, including that they had been investigating.
Images that circulated on social media confirmed hearth vehicles and different emergency autos subsequent to the airplane on the tarmac.
The airplane was an Embraer ERJ-190, a twin-engine jet, in line with FlightConscious, an internet site that tracks air journey. The jet carries as much as 100 folks, and is called the “Cityhopper,” as a result of it’s used for brief flights inside Europe, in line with the airline.
Fatal episodes just like the one on Wednesday are uncommon on airport tarmacs, which have strict safety measures in place.
In January, a person died after climbing right into a airplane engine at Salt Lake City International Airport. The police mentioned that the person reached the airplane by passing by way of an emergency exit door on the airport. He died on the airport after lifesaving efforts failed, the police mentioned.
Claire Moses contributed reporting.
