SpiceJet technician dies on plane care duty in Calcutta
A young SpiceJet technician died after his neck got stuck between the hydraulic door flaps of the landing gear of an aircraft while carrying out maintenance work at the Calcutta airport early on Wednesday.
Rohit Pandey, 22, was working under the rear section of the right wheel in Bay 32 of the airport when the flaps closed “inadvertently”, the airline has said.
The youth from Mumbai lived in Topsia with his uncle.
Airport sources said pressure on a lever closed the flaps while Pandey had his neck stuck between them. The incident occurred around 1.45am. It took firefighters 40 minutes to break open the doors with hammers and bring Pandey out. He was dead by then, doctors said.
