Disturbing video captures the final moments of a Utah man found dead inside the engine of a Delta plane – showing him hitting an emergency exit and heading for the runway.
Kyler Efinger, 30, of Park City, died on New Year’s Day after riding the turbine of the plane, which was waiting to take off at Salt Lake City International Airport with 100 people on board.
Newly released footage Fox 13 Now obtained from the Salt Lake City Airport Department shows Efinger running up to a locked door at the gate and trying to open it.
He had a brief interaction with what appeared to be an airport employee before running to another door and using his shoe to bang on the window.
He then took off again and opened another door to the emergency exit before running down the stairs, video from another camera showed.
Kyler Efinger, 30, was seen breaching security and heading to the plane at Salt Lake City International Airport, where he died after climbing into the engine. FOX 13 News
A subsequent video obtained by the outlet was captured by a thermal imaging camera, showing the plane moving slowly as Efinger ran towards it before the footage cut out.
Other footage cited by Fox 13 Now shows him being dropped off at the airport, going through security, walking through the terminal and running out of the gate throwing his belongings.
Efinger’s family believes the incident stemmed from a mental health crisis when he was about to fly to Denver to see his ailing grandfather.
Efinger was seen trying to enter a security gate at Salt Lake City International Airport. FOX 13 News He fell during his futile attempt before escaping through another door. FOX 13 News
“He was held up in security, missed his flight, and that phone call, I just knew it was coming. They call it the manic phase. That didn’t end well for him,” his father, Judd Efinger, previously told Fox 13.
“Obviously, this one, the worst ever,” he added.
Efinger was found “partially inside the wing-mounted engine” of the plane after the airport shop manager reported a disturbance in the secure part of the terminal shortly before 10pm.
The Airbus A220-100 is being de-iced before flying to San Francisco, officials also said. Its engine was spinning at the time Efinger was found, although the airport initially reported it was out of order.
Salt Lake City police and airport workers found personal items, including shoes and clothing, dumped on one of the runways.
A thermal imaging camera caught him running towards the plane as the turbines spun. FOX 13 News
First responders pulled him out of the engine intake cowling, which directs air into the engine’s fan section, and attempted life-saving measures including administering naloxone, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
The medical examiner’s office has not yet determined the exact cause and manner of death.
Police along with the Federal Aviation Administration, the National Transportation Safety Board and the Transportation Security Administration are still investigating the safety violations and deaths.
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