US EditionItaly’s Bergamo airport suspends flights after a person reportedly got sucked into engine
PROVINCIA DI BERGAMO, LOMBARDY, ITALY, JUL 8 – Flight operations were suspended after a man trespassed on the tarmac and was sucked into an Airbus A319 engine, causing cancellation of 19 flights, airport operator SACBO said.
- Italy's Bergamo airport suspended flights on July 8 after a person reportedly got sucked into an engine.
- Sacbo, the airport's operator, said the incident happened on the taxiway, leading to a fatality.
- Flights were redirected to other airports, with at least 19 flights cancelled due to the incident.
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A man died on Tuesday, July 8, 2025 at Milan Bergamo airport - Orio al Serio (north of Italy) after breaking into the runway and being sucked into the engine of an airplane that was preparing to take off, which caused the temporary suspension of operations at the airport, official sources reported. The aircraft involved is an Airbus A319 of the Spanish company Volotea, destined for the airport of Oviedo (Spain), which was preparing to take off. …
A 35-year-old Italian man died on Tuesday morning at Bergamo airport, in northern Italy, as he approached a plane that maneuvered to take off and be sucked by one of the engines of the aircraft, according to sources from the terminal to Italian media. It was an Airbus A319 flight from the Spanish company Volotea that was headed to Oviedo.
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