DEADLY TRAGEDY

Baggage handler ‘sucked into plane’s engine’ with Montgomery Airport closed after horrific freak accident

AN airport employee has died after allegedly getting sucked into a plane's engine in a freak accident, reports claim.

The scary incident unfolded on Saturday at Alabama's Montgomery Regional Airport involving an unidentified American Airlines/Piedmont Airlines ground crew employee.

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that the employee, identified only as a baggage handler, was killed in an accident involving one of the engines of an American Airlines plane that was running while at the gate.

"Today around 3 pm an American Airlines ground crew piedmont employee was involved in a fatality, no additional information is available at this time," Montgomery Regional Airport tweeted.

"Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of the deceased."

“We are devastated by the accident involving a team member of Piedmont Airlines, an American Airlines regional carrier, at Montgomery Regional Airport (MGM)," AA said in a statement.

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