Milano Bergamo Airport, Italy: Horror as man breaches safety zones and is sucked into jet engine
Tourists at one of Italy's busiest airports have witnessed a horrific incident after a man breached checkpoints and ran toward a passenger jet, before being sucked into one of the engines.
Security at the Milano Bergamo Airport was thrown into chaos after the man, reportedly identified as 35-year-old builder Andrea Russo, barrelled through various restricted access areas and burst onto the tarmac.
Russo, a resident from Calcinate county, in Bergamo, who was not ticketed to board the flight, then reportedly began throwing himself at one of the engines, before sprinting toward the other engine and being sucked into the casing as the plane was beginning to reverse.
Officials and police pursued Russo as he burst through security barriers but were unable to stop him reaching the packed Volotea Airbus A319, which was preparing for takeoff on its way to Asturias, Spain.
Russo reportedly entered the terminal driveway driving erratically against one-way traffic, before abandoning his vehicle and running into the airport and through security checkpoints.
He managed to pinpoint a door which then allowed him direct access from the arrivals hall and onto the tarmac, where multiple aircraft were positioning in and out of passenger delivery gangways.
'At first he threw himself against the casings — the protections of the right engine of the plane,' a witness told
The Sun
.
'Then he went around and either threw himself or was sucked into the propeller of the left engine.'
Another witness said he saw the man sprint through the airport and followed his path onto the tarmac from the arrivals hall.
'I saw [the man] running away from the stewards. He threw himself against the right engine, then he went around and threw himself into the other engine,' he said.
All flights into the airport were diverted to the Milano Malpensa Airport as a crime scene was declared and aviation officials began their investigations.
Nine flights were diverted, six had to be rerouted and eight departures were cancelled, with the airport delaying all flights for a number of hours.
The incident has raised questions about security at the airport and how the trespasser was able gain access to the tarmac within seconds of exiting his vehicle outside the building.
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