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星期三晚間,在孟買機場有一名印度航空工程師,被吸入引擎後身亡。
印度航空619航班,由孟買出發,原定飛往海得拉巴(hyderabad),起飛前,正從停機橋往後推。
大約晚上8時40分,現場目擊者說,副機師好像將一個信號誤解為跑道已清空,可以出發,而發動了引擎。
一位站在附近,監管後推程序的工程師,被吸入引擎,當場死亡。
該工程師身份為五十多歲的Ravi Subramanian。他的工作包括:在飛機進入跑道前,把推車從飛機上移除。
有消息指出,這架A319型號的飛機,輔助動力裝置(APU system)無法正常運作。在此情況下,飛機後推之前,其中一個引擎,必須用外部電源啟動。
一旦飛機往後推,啟動中的引擎必須加速運轉,才能讓令一個引擎啟動。
印度航空董事長Ashwani Lohani表示這是一樁不幸的意外,但目前尚不清楚詳情,事件仍在調查中。
英文原文:
An Air India service engineer was killed when he was sucked into the engine of an aircraft at Mumbai Airport on Wednesday night.
Air India Flight 619, en route to Hyderabad from Mumbai, was being pushed back from the parking bay before takeoff.
At around 8:40 p.m., an eyewitness said it appeared that the co-pilot mistook a signal as clearance for departure and started the engine.
A service engineer, who was standing nearby and supervising the pushback, was pulled into the engine and died instantly.
The technician, identified as Ravi Subramanian, was in his fifties. His job included disconnecting the pushcart from the aircraft before it moves toward the runway.
Sources said the A319 aircraft’s auxiliary power unit was not working. Without the APU system, one of the engines must be started with an external power source before the pushback.
Once the aircraft is pushed back, the live engine has to be revved up for the other engine to start.
Air India chairman Ashwani Lohani described the accident as a ‘mishap’, but it is not yet clear what happened. The incident is under investigation.