On January 24, an accident occurred at Shandong Qingdao Jiaodong International Airport: an Airbus A320 aircraft managed and used by Qingdao Airlines was towed in the airport, and a maintenance engineer who was moving with the aircraft was crushed, causing the accident. people died.

  It is reported that the number of the aircraft involved is B-30FG. According to public information, it is an Airbus A320neo aircraft that will join the Qingdao Airlines fleet at the end of July 2020.

Flight data shows that the last time the B-30FG aircraft performed a civil aviation flight mission was on January 23. After completing the Changchun-Qingdao flight mission at 23:34 that day, it landed at Qingdao Jiaodong International Airport for maintenance.

In the early morning of January 24, after the B-30FG aircraft completed the maintenance work at the designated seat, it was escorted and supervised by the crew and moved to another seat.

During the transfer of the plane, the flight attendant who had been in contact with the aircraft was found to have fallen to the ground suddenly by other personnel. The on-site staff immediately stopped the towing of the aircraft after they found it, but after the subsequent arrival of medical staff, it was determined that the flight attendant had unfortunately passed away.

On January 26, the B-30FG aircraft has been put back into the flight operation of Qingdao Airlines and flew a flight from Qingdao.

  It is understood that after the incident, the Qingdao police conducted an investigation and other work on the scene after receiving the police, and the safety supervision agency also intervened in the incident investigation.

A staff member of the Qingdao Airlines propaganda department said in a telephone interview with a reporter from the main station that the accident occurred at 6:19 a.m. on January 24. A maintenance staff of Qingdao Airlines was carrying out the task of dragging an empty plane off the maintenance apron. In the event of an accident, the on-site staff immediately called first aid and called the police, but the crew died after all efforts were made to rescue them.

  (Headquarters reporter Wang Wei Zixuan Zhang Ming)