Salt Lake City police detectives are conducting a death investigation at the Salt Lake City International Airport.
According to a prepared statement by the SLCPD PR Unit a “30-year-old man died after he accessed an airport deicing pad and entered an aircraft’s engine intake cowling.
This investigation began Monday about 9:52 p.m. when a store manager inside the airport “reported a disturbance involving a passenger on the secured side of the terminal.”
Police said just before 10 p.m. on Monday, a store manager called police to report a disturbance involving a passenger in a secured area of the airport.
As police responded, they got a report that a man had gone through an emergency exit door and then determined he was in the airport’s ramp area.
Around 10:10 p.m., they found him unconscious inside a wing-mounted engine of a commercial aircraft with passengers on board.
“The aircraft’s engines were not running, based on the preliminary investigation,” the SLCPD PR statement said.
“SLCPD officers, Airport Operations, and the Salt Lake City Fire Department performed lifesaving efforts, but the man died on scene.”
“It is unclear at this time what injuries caused the man’s death whose name is being withheld upon notification of family members,” the SL International Airport statement said.
The Delta Airbus A220-100 flight was headed to SFO from SLC.
The FAA, NTSB, SLCPD and TSA will continue investigate the incident.
