The incident occurred in the area where planes pull up to the terminal.
An Austin Police spokeswoman told reporters that the man was driving a service vehicle that struck a jet bridge. She said police were investigating the incident as an accident.
“We are devastated by the accident involving a team member at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport,” an American Airlines spokeswoman said. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and our local team members.”Work around commercial airplanes has resulted in other fatal injuries in recent years. A man died at the Austin airport in 2020 after being. Police later ruled it was a suicide and officials said the man was not authorized to be on the runway.
In December, a baggage handler for American subsidiary Piedmont Airlines in Montgomery, Alabama, died when she walked in front of a running jet engine and wasIn September, a contractor’s employee who was unloading bags from a Frontier Airlines plane at the New Orleans airport died after her hair got
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