Salt Lake City authorities are investigating the death of a man whose body was found inside a plane engine on New Year’s Day.
Police said the 30-year-old victim had “accessed an airport de-icing pad and entered an aircraft’s engine intake cowling.”
A store manager inside the airport called the police at 9:52 p.m. Monday to report a “disturbance involving a passenger on the secured side of the terminal.”
The passenger fled before police arrived and passed through an emergency exit that led him to the airport’s ramp area.
His body was later discovered inside “a wing-mounted engine of an occupied commercial aircraft bound for San Francisco”.
Officers and employees removed the man’s body through the cowling and tried life-saving measures.
An investigation into the man’s death involves the SLCPD, the Federal Aviation Administration, the National Transportation Safety Board, and the Transportation Security Administration.
