A Delta Airlines employee was killed last week after a vehicle crash at Orlando International Airport, and officials identified the victim on Monday as a 49-year-old man.<\/p>\n
The fatal accident occurred Thursday around 11 p.m. while a Delta flight full of passengers was parked at a jet bridge, the walkway used by passengers to travel between a terminal and a plane. The bridge was struck by a tug, a vehicle used to tow planes, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The passengers had to exit the plane using its rear door and stairs.<\/p>\n
The FAA did not say anyone had been harmed or died in the collision, but provided details about the incident in response to questions about the man\u2019s death.<\/p>\n
Daniel Maldonado, 49, was the employee killed Thursday, the Orange-Osceola Medical Examiner\u2019s Office said in response to questions about the incident. The medical examiner\u2019s office said Maldonado died from multiple blunt-impact injuries, and it ruled the death an accident.<\/p>\n
Delta confirmed earlier Monday the \u201closs of a team member\u201d in an on-the-job incident, although the airline did not name the person killed or specify what happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Delta family is heartbroken\u2026we are focused on extending our full support to family and taking care of our Orlando team during this difficult time,\u201d Delta said in a statement. \u201cWe are working with local authorities as a full investigation gets underway to determine what occurred.\u201d<\/p>\n
Operations were paused at Delta\u2019s Orlando terminal that night following the collision, with one departing flight being canceled, according to the airline.<\/p>\n
After the crash, both the Orlando Police Department and the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration said they were investigating the fatal accident.<\/p>\n
An airport spokesperson offered condolences Monday to Maldonado\u2019s family.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe MCO community is deeply saddened about the loss of a team member from one of our airline partners, a member of our extended airport family,\u201d the spokesperson said. \u201cWe send condolences to his family and friends.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Delta Airlines employee was killed last week after a vehicle crash at Orlando International Airport, and officials…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[115046,64740,115047,52069,7811,139,141,3847,140,16915],"class_list":["post-267568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-daniel-maldonado","tag-delta-airlines","tag-delta-family","tag-fatal-accident","tag-federal-aviation-administration","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-international-airport","tag-orlando-news","tag-vehicle-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}