A disturbing video of the final moments of a Utah man found dead inside a Delta Air Lines engine shows him breaking through an emergency exit door and making his way onto the tarmac.
Kyler Effinger, 30, of Park City, died on New Year's Day after climbing onto the turbine of a plane waiting to take off at Salt Lake City International Airport with 100 people on board.
The newly released video is I got Fox 13 Video from the Salt Lake City Airport Authority shows Effinger running to the gate's locked door and trying to open it.
He had a brief conversation with someone who appeared to be an airport employee, then flew off to another door, hitting the window with his shoe.
He then took off again, kicking open another door to the emergency exit before running down the stairs, footage from another camera shows.
The next video obtained by the news organization, taken with a thermal imaging camera, shows Effinger running towards the plane and the plane taxiing slowly before the footage cuts out.
Other footage cited by Fox 13 Now shows him being dropped off at the airport, going through security, walking through the terminal and throwing his belongings as he flees through the gate.
Effinger's family believes the incident stemmed from a mental health crisis that occurred while he was flying to Denver to visit his sick grandfather.
“He was detained by security, he missed his flight, he was getting phone calls and I knew it was coming. They call it manic. Those don't end well for him. No,” his father, Judd Effinger, previously told FOX 13.
“Obviously this is the worst ever,” he added.
Just before 10pm that night, Effinger was found “partially inside the wing-mounted engine” of the plane after an airport store manager reported a disturbance on the secure side of the terminal.
The Airbus A220-100 was undergoing de-icing work before its flight to San Francisco, officials said. The engine was running at the time Effinger was discovered, even though the airport initially reported the engine was dead.
Salt Lake City police and airport officials found personal items, including shoes and clothing, abandoned on one of the runways.
Paramedics pulled the man out of the engine intake cowling, which directs air to the engine fan, and attempted life-saving measures, including administering naloxone, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
The coroner's office has not yet determined his exact cause and manner of death.
Police are working with the Federal Aviation Administration, National Transportation Safety Board and Transportation Security Administration to investigate the security violations and deaths.
