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Old 4th November 2004 | 16:15
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LGB
 
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Looks like this tragic event happened on july 13th:


(Various sources, found via google.com)




Sheremetyevo Technician Dies After Being Sucked into Jet Engine

13.07.2004 18:15 MSK (GMT +3)

MosNews


An employee of the technical maintenance service of the Moscow Sheremetyevo-1 airport died on Tuesday after he got sucked into a Boeing’s jet engine, the Gazeta.Ru Internet newspaper reports.

The incident took place early on Tuesday morning.

The man, whose name was given as Igor Yelfimov, stayed near the engine of the Boeing-737-700 passenger jet when the crew started it. The plane belongs to Kazakhstan’s Air Astana airline.

The airport’s press service has told the newspaper that the reasons behind the incidents were being investigated and that it was too early to draw conclusions. A special commission has been created which was manned by representatives of the Federal Service of Transport Control, the Moscow Air Transport Prosecutor’s Office and the Sheremetyevo Police Directorate.

The aircraft was grounded after the incident.

The passengers were put into a hotel.


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Russian Airport Worker Sucked Into 737 Engine
Shocked Passengers Removed From Flight
No one's exactly sure why Igor Yelfimov was standing so close to the engine of an Air Astana 737-700 at Moscow's Sheremetyevo-1 Airport Tuesday. Yelfimov won't be providing any answers. When the crew of the Kazak airliner started up the engines, Yelfimov was sucked into one of the turbines and instantly killed.The Russian newspaper Gazeta reports officials quickly set up a commission to investigate the grisly death. The aircraft was reportedly grounded after Yelfimov was killed, its passengers off-loaded and put up in local hotels for the night

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Thursday, July 15, 2004. Page 3.

Engineer Sucked Up by Boeing's Jet Engine

By Lyuba Pronina
Staff Writer A maintenance engineer was killed early Tuesday morning when he was sucked into a Boeing jet engine at Sheremetyevo Airport.

Igor Yelfimov, 26, an airport engineering service employee, was torn to shreds when a Kazakh airline's Boeing 737-700 started its engines at 3:44 a.m., Valery Luchinin of the Federal Service for Supervision of Transportation said by telephone Wednesday.

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Engine tragedy probe

Russian investigators are probing a fatal ramp accident at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport in which a ground engineer was killed apparently after being sucked into the engine of a Boeing 737-700.
The incident occurred in the early hours of 13 July and involved a Boeing 737 from Kazakhstan-based carrier Air Astana.

In a statement, the operator of Sheremetyevo Airport says that the accident occurred on the ramp of Terminal 1 at 03:44 while the aircraft was preparing to carry out a flight between Moscow and Almaty.

A commission has been set-up to investigate the accident which includes federal safety personnel, the Moscow air transport authorities and representatives from Sheremetyevo Airport’s internal affairs division.
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