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Video Shows Man’s Final Moments Before He Was Found Dead In Plane Engine

FOX 13 News Utah reports that surveillance camera footage shows a man attempting to break through multiple airport exit doors, then running across the tarmac toward the plane before dying inside the plane's engine. was reflected.

Kyler Effinger, 30 years old; died According to reports, he climbed onto the engine turbine of a plane that was about to take off at Salt Lake City International Airport on New Year's Day with about 100 people on board. Exit.

Newly released video shows Effinger attempting to open a locked gate inside the terminal, briefly speaking with an airport employee who found him, and then fleeing to another gate. He tried to pull the second door and fell, but that door also appeared to be securely locked.

Mr. Effinger was then seen angrily throwing a shoe at a glass window next to the second gate. When the glass did not break, he walked away with both shoes in his left hand.

The next video showed Effinger kicking open what appeared to be an emergency exit door and running down the stairs. In the final footage, he was sprinting toward a plane about to take off.

According to the New York Post, responding officials found Effinger “inside a portion of the wing-mounted engine” of the plane and tried to extricate him using naloxone and other means, but later He was confirmed dead at the scene. (Related: Delta Air Lines employee dies after reportedly being 'sucked' by plane's engine, officials say)

Effinger was heading to Denver, Colorado to visit his sick grandfather, but missed his flight and suffered a mental illness, FOX 13 reported.

“He was detained by security, he missed his flight, he was getting phone calls,” his father, Judd Effinger, told the outlet. “I knew it was going to happen. They call it manic. Those don't end well for him. Obviously, this is the worst ever.”

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