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In a bizarre, tragic twist of events, an Air India worker has died after getting sucked into a plane engine.
The service engineer was reportedly sucked into the engine of an Airbus A-319 aircraft as it pushed back for take-off at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport on Wednesday.
According to Mashable, the co-pilot of the Mumbai-Hyderabad flight AI 619 misunderstood a signal from the ground staff and started the engine, which then sucked in the victim, Ravi Subramaniam.
The engine of the aircraft is now being dismantled to recover the body.
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The airline, local police and other authorities are investigating the incident to find out whether there was a security lapse in the flight's take-off procedure.
Meanwhile, Air India tweeted about the tragic event: