An investigation is underway after a man was found dead inside the engine of a plane at Salt Lake City International Airport.
The Salt Lake City Police Department (SLCPD) confirmed the investigation in a statement, saying the man "died after he accessed an airport de-icing pad and entered an aircraft's engine intake cowling." The engine was not running, the early stages of the investigation revealed.
The man, 30, has not yet been publicly identified.
SLCPD's investigation began on New Year's Day at around 9.52 p.m. "when a store manager inside the airport contacted dispatchers with the Airport Control Center. The store manager reported a disturbance involving a passenger on the secured side of the terminal."
In a statement, the police department said: "As officers with the Salt Lake City Police Department's Airport Division responded, Airport Control informed officers that the man passed through an emergency exit door. SLCPD officers and Airport Operations employees started looking for the man and determined he accessed the airport's ramp area from the emergency exit.
"At approximately 10:10 p.m., SLCPD officers and Airport Operations employees found the man unconscious inside a wing-mounted engine of an occupied commercial aircraft on the de-icing pad."
Responders worked to save the man after he was recovered from the engine intake cowling, but were unable to revive him and he died at the scene.
This is a breaking news story and will be updated.
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