CNN —A person has died after falling into an airplane jet engine at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on Wednesday.
“We are currently taking care of the passengers and employees who witnessed the incident at Schiphol,” KLM added on Wednesday.
Schiphol Airport, which is one of Europe’s busiest aviation hubs, described the event as a “horrible incident” in a post on X.
In December 2022, an airport worker died in an accident at the Montgomery Regional Airport in Alabama after also being ingested into the engine of an aircraft.
And in December 2015 an engineer at Mumbai airport died after being sucked into the engine of an Air India plane.
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