American Airlines worker dies after crash with jet bridge at Austin airport terminal

An American Airways employee died Thursday after being injured at Austin-Bergstrom Worldwide Airport, in keeping with airport officers.

The employee was injured within the space the place planes pull as much as the terminal, a spokesperson on the airport in Austin, Texas, mentioned.

Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Companies mentioned it was known as shortly after 2 p.m. and located an individual lifeless from “traumatic accidents.”

An Austin Police spokeswoman informed reporters that the person was driving a service automobile that struck a jet bridge. She mentioned police had been investigating the incident as an accident.

“We acknowledge this incident of nature and we actually respect the group’s persistence as we absolutely examine this tragic incident,” Austin Police Officer Future Silva mentioned, CBS Austin reported.

Austin Police mentioned there have been a number of witnesses and all people concerned has been cooperating with the investigation, CBS Austin reported.

“We’re devastated by the accident involving a crew member at Austin-Bergstrom Worldwide Airport,” an American Airways spokeswoman mentioned. “Our ideas and prayers are with the household and our native crew members.”

American declined to remark additional. The employee’s title was not instantly obtainable.

There was no vital impression on airport operations, the airport mentioned.

Work round industrial airplanes has resulted in different deadly accidents in recent times. A person died on the Austin airport in 2020 after being struck by Southwest Airways jet on a runway. Police later dominated it was a suicide and officers mentioned the person was not licensed to be on the runway.

In December, a baggage handler for American subsidiary Piedmont Airways in Montgomery, Alabama, died when she walked in entrance of a working jet engine and was pulled into the fan blades.

In September, a contractor’s worker who was unloading baggage from a Frontier Airways airplane on the New Orleans airport died after her hair acquired caught in a conveyer belt.

In 2019, an worker of a United Airways contractor at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Worldwide Airport was pinned underneath a bag-loading automobile. He died later at a hospital.