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Sheremetyevo Technician Dies After Being Sucked into Jet Engine

13.07.2004 18:15 MSK (GMT +3)

MosNews

An employee of the technical maintenance service of the Moscow Sheremetyevo-1 airport died on Tuesday after he got sucked into a Boeing’s jet engine, the Gazeta.Ru Internet newspaper reports.

The incident took place early on Tuesday morning.

The man, whose name was given as Igor Yelfimov, stayed near the engine of the Boeing-737-700 passenger jet when the crew started it. The plane belongs to Kazakhstan’s Air Astana airline.

The airport’s press service has told the newspaper that the reasons behind the incidents were being investigated and that it was too early to draw conclusions. A special commission has been created which was manned by representatives of the Federal Service of Transport Control, the Moscow Air Transport Prosecutor’s Office and the Sheremetyevo Police Directorate.

The aircraft was grounded after the incident.

The passengers were put into a hotel.

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