Italy’s Milan Bergamo airport resumes flights with delays after man sucked into aircraft engine

Orio al Serio airport within the northern Italian metropolis of Bergamo suspended flights on Tuesday resulting from a runway incident.

Native media reported that it was brought on by somebody operating onto the tarmac and getting sucked into an airport engine.

The Volotea flight headed to Asturias in Spain was performing a manoeuvre earlier than taking off.

All flights suspended at Bergamo airport

The Bergamo Milan airport authority, generally known as SACBO, closed the Bergamo-Orio al Serio airport at 10.20 native time.

All flights have been suspended “resulting from an issue that occurred on the taxiway.”

These included Ryanair companies to Crotone, Prague, Zadar, Tirana, Kos, Malta, Naples, Porto, Alghero, and a Eurowings flight to Dusseldorf.

Air site visitors resumed at 12pm, however there are nonetheless some delays.

These embody Ryanair companies to Fez, Lisbon, Copenhagen, Bristol and Cagliari, an AJet flight to Istanbul and an AirArabia flight to Casablanca.

Authorities open investigation at Bergamo airport

An investigation is underway into the incident.

Corriere della Sera newspaper, citing unnamed airport officers, mentioned the 35-year-old man had deserted his automobile outdoors the terminal and run by the arrivals space on the bottom ground.

He accessed the runway by way of a safety door and ran in direction of the Volotea airplane because it was pushing again in preparation for takeoff.

Ansa, an Italian information company, confirmed the sufferer was neither a passenger nor an airport worker. It added that the person is assumed to have taken his personal life.

There was no fast response to calls positioned to the authority’s headquarters.