Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Mechanic sucked into jet engine
From CNN, Fatal accident occurred as aircraft prepared to fly to Houston:
A mechanic standing near a Boeing 737 at El Paso International Airport in Texas was sucked into one of the engines and killed Monday, officials said.Darwin in action on the tarmac?
[S]aid Roland Herwig, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration's southwest region in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, "Someone on the ground was sucked into the engine."
A spokeswoman for Boeing said Monday's incident is not the first such accident. "It doesn't happen very often," spokeswoman Liz Verdier said. "It has happened in the past."
