A person died on Wednesday after they “ended up” inside a running plane engine at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, officials said, although the circumstances of the person’s death remained unclear.
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, said in a statement that the episode involved its Flight KL1341, which had been scheduled to take off for Billund, Denmark.
“We are currently taking care of the passengers and employees who witnessed the incident at Schiphol,” the airline said.
It was unclear whether the person who died, whose name had not been made public, entered the plane’s engine or whether they were pulled into it.
KLM did not say whether the person who died was an airline employee or airport worker.
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Organizations:
Schiphol, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, KLM
Locations:
Amsterdam, Netherlands, Billund, Denmark, Schiphol