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.
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