Airport employee gets violently sucked into plane engine in front of her coworkers

A grim tragedy occurred at Montgomery Regional Airport on New Year’s Eve. Courtney Edwards, a 34-year-old mother of three working as a ground handling agent for Piedmont Airlines, was violently sucked into a plane engine and killed. According to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board, Edwards had been warned by a colleague to keep her distance from the plane after she was nearly knocked over by the exhaust of a nearby jet. …

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