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What happened at an Alabama Airport? American Airlines employee killed in “industrial” accident

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Matthew Elliott

Updated on December 31, 2025

Montgomery Provincial Air terminal affirmed that an American Carriers/Piedmont Carriers ground group worker was killed in a modern mishap on New Year’s Eve, 2022.

The affirmation was made by means of Twitter on January 1, 2023. No additional data enumerating the course of occasions prompting the misfortune was uncovered separated from the hour of the occurrence, which was 3:00 pm in the early evening. The MGM Twitter account @flymgm expressed:

“Today around 3 pm an American Carriers ground team piedmont representative was engaged with a casualty, no extra data is accessible right now. Our contemplations and petitions to God are with the group of the departed.”
The American Aircrafts representative was supposedly standing excessively near a motor
An American Aircrafts worker was killed during a lamentable occurrence on December 31, 2022, at 3 pm at Montgomery Provincial Air terminal in Alabama.

The Government Avionics Organization (FAA) revealed that the worker was killed on the slope at the air terminal where American Carriers Flight 3408, an Embraer E175 twin-stream, was stopped. The air terminal was shut after the occurrence happened.

The air terminal continued ordinary activities soon thereafter at around 8:30 pm, yet examinations concerning the episode are as yet in progress.

In a proclamation delivered by The Public Transportation Security Board, the individual starting from the earliest stage work force was purportedly “ingested into the motor” of an airplane while it was stopped at the door with the stopping brake set. The worker was said to have been sucked into the running motor of an Agent Air flight that was stopped in front of its booked trip to Dallas, Texas.

Today around 3 pm an American Airlines ground crew piedmont employee was involved in a fatality, no additional information is available at this time. Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of the deceased.

— Montgomery Regional Airport (@flymgm) January 1, 2023


Piedmont Aircrafts likewise said it has doled out its Consideration group to offer help to the casualty’s loved ones, as well as colleagues who were available at the hour of the episode. Swim A. Davis, Montgomery Air terminal’s leader chief, made an announcement of sympathies to the casualty’s loved ones. He said:

“We are disheartened to catch wind of the shocking loss of a colleague of the AA/Piedmont Carriers. Our contemplations and petitions to heaven are with the family during this troublesome time.”
This isn’t the principal lethal episode to be accounted for from an air terminal. On August 30, 2022, Jermani Thompson, 26, working at Louis Armstrong New Orleans Global Air terminal as a baggage controller, was killed when her hair got tangled in a belt loader. She worked for GAT Ground Backing, and the occurrence happened at around 10:00 pm.