Mumbai: An Air India technician died after being sucked into the engine of an aircraft parked at the Mumbai airport on Wednesday.
The mishap occurred when the co-pilot of Mumbai-Hyderabad flight AI 619 mistook a signal for starting the engine and the victim, Ravi Subramanian, got sucked into it at bay 28 of the Chhatrapati Shivaji domestic airport around 8.40pm.
The incident is being investigated said Air India CMD Ashwani Lohani.
As per sources, a probe has been ordered into the incident as there are several questions about the incident which is still unanswered.
The local police, the airline and other authorities have launched independent investigations into the case. Officials from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), too, were investigating the episode, an airport source said.
A similar incident had occurred in the late 1990s in Chennai when a bird scarer was sucked into the engine after he ran towards the plane, while it was preparing for take-off.
