People stand in front of Milan Bergamo Airport (Il Caravaggio International Airport), on the day of the death of a person on a runway during take-off preparations, in Orio al Serio, near Bergamo, Italy, July 8, 2025.
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A man died at one of Milan's main airports Tuesday after being sucked into a jet engine on the runway, an airport spokesperson said.
The man was neither a passenger nor an airport employee, according to an official for Sacbo, the company that manages Milan Bergamo Airport. The official requested anonymity because he was not authorized to be quoted.
Flight operations at the airport were suspended at 10:20 am local time because of "a problem" on the taxiway, Sacbo said in a statement, and resumed at noon.
Authorities were investigating the incident, the official said. He did not respond to questions about the airline the plane belonged to or how the man had accessed the runway.
Nineteen flights at Milan Bergamo Airport were canceled and several were delayed, according to FlightAware, a company that tracks flight information. The airport is the third busiest in Italy after Fiumicino Airport in Rome and Milan's Malpensa Airport.
Airport tarmacs usually have strict security protocols, and fatal incidents on them are rare.
Last May, an airport employee died after climbing into a running jet engine at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, in what Dutch military police called a suicide. A few months before that, a man who had passed through an emergency exit door died after climbing into a jet engine at Salt Lake City International Airport.