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Wed, Aug 10, 2011

Engine Ingests, Kills Worker In NZ

C-130 Engine Was Running On Test Stand

Authorities in New Zealand say an engineer who had recently been called back from a furlough died Monday morning when he was sucked into a turboprop engine on a test stand at Woodbourne Airport near Blenheim on New Zealand's south island.

The New Zealand website stuff.co.nz reports that 51-year-old Miles Hunter walked into a test enclosure in a remote corner of the airport while an engine from a Royal New Zealand Air Force C-130 Hercules was being run on a test stand without a propeller following maintenance. An investigation continues.

The maintenance operation is run by an Air New Zealand subsidiary called SAFE Air.

FMI: www.airforce.mil.nz

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