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A Texas airport worker who was sucked into a plane's engine died by suicide (www.npr.org)

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The 27-year-old airport worker took his own life in San Antonio on Friday, the local medical examiner said. The incident marked the second fatal aviation engine ingestion so far this year.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I had never considered this a suicide option but honestly like decompression probably too fast to comprehend, but on the other hand, complete arseholes for doing it like that considering the cleanup. Some maintenance tech having to pull your teeth out of a turbine blade.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Seems like suicide is the medical examiners opinion. My wife was talking about how you know when you just zone out....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

But....why do they think that? The article doesn't say?