Was an airline ground crew worker pulled into the engine of a plane during a fatal accident at an Alabama airport?

A National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) review of a New Year's Eve incident, in which a ground crew worker was killed at an airport in Montgomery, Alabama, after being sucked into the engine of a plane, says the aircraft shook violently as it shut off with a bang.



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Depends on how the aircraft crashes! Some have been traveling nearly 500 miles an hour and nose-dive straight into the ground or sea, in which case the impact would kill instantaneously, and no physical pain would be felt, but mental anguish could be felt on the way down!

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It is rarely possible to identify a victim of a major disaster by visual recognition; fingerprints, dental records or DNA samples are often required for a conclusive identification.

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As the flight neared the line of massive thunderstorms straddling the Inter Tropical Convergence, any passenger who happened to be awake would probably have felt some light turbulence. Those looking out window would have watched the plane fly into a bank of clouds, then out into clear sky, and then back into clouds.

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Some remains for each of the terrorists were recovered, as evidenced by five unique postmortem profiles that did not match any antemortem material provided by victims, families.

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I know of a few cases of people being sucked into jet engines. Two survived with minor injuries because their bodies never made contact with the blades. The other three died and were rendered unidentifiable instantly.

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Courtney Edwards, 34, a mother of three, died after investigators said she was “ingested into the engine” of an American Airlines flight parked at Montgomery Regional Airport.

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The Occupational Health and Safety Administration levied the fine against Piedmont Airlines after investigators found it was responsible for a safety breach that led to the death of Courtney Edwards, a mother of three, at Montgomery Regional Airport on Dec. 31.

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