Kolkata: A trainee technician in India was crushed to death on Wednesday by the landing gear flaps on an aircraft while conducting maintenance work, airline SpiceJet said.
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“Inadvertently, the main landing gear hydraulic door closed and he got stuck in between the hydraulic door flaps,” SpiceJet said after the incident at Kolkata airport in eastern India.
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“The hydraulic doors were broken to rescue (Rohit) Pandey, but he was declared dead,” the airline said. “The entire SpiceJet family stands together in grief in this unfortunate incident.”
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Airport director Kaushik Bhattacharya said that Pandey, 26, was “sucked into the lower end of the aircraft due to hydraulic pressure. His body had to be cut out of it”.
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The aircraft was a Canadian Bombardier Q400.
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