An airline mechanic was killed today after he was sucked into an engine on a Continental Airlines 737:
El Paso Times—An airline mechanic at the El Paso International Airport was sucked into an airplane’s jet engine and killed Monday morning, officials said.
The name of the victim was not released but officials said the worker was doing maintenance work on a Boeing 737 when he was sucked into the engine.
“It was a Boeing 737 and was doing an engine run up for a maintenance problem and a person was sucked into the engine,” said Roland Herwig, a spoksesman for the Federal Aviation Administration in Oklahoma City. …
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Update (1/18/2006 7:27am):
ABC7 has identified the mechanic as 64-year-old Donald Gene Buchanan of El Paso.
Our prayers are with his family; God bless them.
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Mechanic Sucked Into Boeing 737 Engine
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