Mechanic Killed after Sucked into Wing Engine of Air China Jet

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Mechanic Killed after Sucked into Wing Engine of Air China Jet

A Chinese mechanic was killed Thursday after he was sucked into one of the engines of an Air China jet as it pulled away from the airport gate, BBC report said.

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A Chinese mechanic was killed Thursday after he was sucked into one of the engines of an Air China jet as it pulled away from the airport gate, BBC report said.

Air China flight 928, carrying 211 passengers and seven crew, was to take off from Osaka's Kansai International Airport for Beijing when the incident occurred, said Junichi Odawara of the Kansai airport police.

The plane's engine was badly damaged and the flight was canceled, he said.

Odawara said witnesses saw the man sprint to one of the plane's wing engines, which pulled him in with the force of its rotating turbines.

Hiroshi Kato, another airport police official, said investigators were investigating the possibility that the man, identified as 39-year-old Zhang Xinmin, committed suicide.

Air China officials weren't immediately available for comment.

Kansai airport officials said there were no other flights to Beijing Thursday, and that passengers were expected to stay in Japan overnight.

Osaka is 255 miles west of Tokyo.

On Monday, an Air China flight from Beijing slammed into a mountain with 166 people on board while preparing to land at an airport outside Busan, South Korea's second-largest city. Thirty-eight people survived and six are listed as missing.

Source: Agencies

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