From Daily Mail: A man killed himself by throwing himself into a passenger jet engine at an Italian international airport as a plane prepared to take off on Tuesday morning.
Andrea Russo, 35, from Calcinate near Bergamo, who was not a passenger or airport staff member at Milan Bergamo Airport, reportedly entered the terminal in his his red Fiat 500 car car before abandoning the vehicle and running into the building.
He arrived at the airport without a ticket and made his way to a restricted area leading to the runway before two Border Police on duty attempted to stop him.
He managed to free himself from the officers before running onto the tarmac and ‘throwing himself into one of the two turbofans’ on the Volotea Airbus A319 flight V73511 from Milan to Austurias.
According to police sources, the man had a history of “drug problems.”
A witness said, “I wasn’t on that plane, I was boarding another plane next to it and we saw everything.
“He ran towards the right side. The he ran and [was] sucked by the left side motor.”
“I can’t describe it as pleasant,” he said.
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