Texas Airport Worker Ingested Into Plane Engine Committed Suicide: Medical Examiner

Houston
The horrific death of an airport ground worker in the US state of Texas who was sucked into a passenger jet engine has been ruled a suicide by the local medical examiner. The Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office on Monday said 27-year-old David Renner died of blunt and sharp force injuries at San Antonio International Airport.
The worker’s death occurred at about 10.25 pm (local time) as a Delta Air Lines flight which had just arrived in San Antonio, Texas from Los Angeles was taxiing to an arrival gate with one engine running when he was killed on Friday.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said the employee was ingested into the engine of the plane. An investigation was initially launched by the NTSB, but it came to a halt on Monday after the medical examiner confirmed suicide as the cause of the death. The NTSB will not be opening an investigation into this event. There were no operational safety issues with either the airplane or the airport, it quoted an NTSB spokesperson as saying. The family of Renner says he was working for a company that Delta Air Lines contracts for ground support.