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A person died Wednesday after falling into the spinning turbine blades of a departing passenger jet at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, officials said.

The death occurred on the apron outside the busy hub’s terminal as a KLM flight was ready to depart for Billund in Denmark.

“An… incident took place at Schiphol today during which a person ended up in a running aircraft engine,” Dutch flagship carrier KLM said in a statement.

“Sadly the person has died,” KLM said, without disclosing the victim’s identity.

The airline did not say if the victim was an airport employee, a passenger or someone else.

Dutch border police, who are responsible for security at the Netherlands’ largest airport, said passengers were removed from the plane and an investigation was opened.

The plane involved is a short-haul Embraer jet, used by KLM’s Cityhopper service, which operates flights to other nearby destinations like London, Dutch news reports said.

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KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Cityhopper Embraer ERJ-190STD airplane at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Europe, on May 03, 2022.

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A picture posted on the NOS public broadcaster showed the plane surrounded by fire trucks and ambulances next to the departure terminals.

Safety and security measures are strict at Schiphol and accidents are rare at the busy airport, which handled around 5.5 million passengers last month alone, according to airport figures.

Other deaths related to passenger jet engines have occurred at different U.S. airports in recent months.

In January, a 30-year-old man died after he climbed into a plane engine at Salt Lake City International Airport.

Last June, a 27-year-old airport employee died after being sucked into a passenger plane engine in San Antonio, Texas.

An airline worker died in December 2022 after being sucked into a plane’s engine after an American Eagle flight from Dallas landed at Montgomery Regional Airport in Alabama. 



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Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, who last week backed Sen. Bernie Sanders’ bill to block U.S. sending arms to Israel, told “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that President Biden ” is not fully complying with American law” on sending arms to Israel.

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Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender person to be elected to Congress, tells “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that as Republicans have sought to put forward a bathroom ban in the Capitol, she “didn’t run for the United States House of Representatives to talk about what bathroom I use.”

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This week on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Sens. Rand Paul and Tammy Duckworth discuss President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks after a busy week on Capitol Hill. Plus, Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender person elected to Congress, joins.

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