Taiwan Air Force officer killed after being ‘inhaled’ by fighter jet’s engine

A Taiwanese Air Force officer died aft being sucked into the motor of a combatant jet, officials said. 

The incidental reportedly happened astatine Ching Chuan Kang Air Base connected Tuesday portion the maestro sergeant was performing a pre-shutdown inspection of the aircraft. 

Taiwan’s Air Force said the serviceman was "inhaled by the motor for chartless reasons." She aboriginal was pronounced dormant aft life-saving efforts were unsuccessful. 

"In effect to media reports that ‘it is suspected that an instructor's throttle exertion caused a pistillate serviceman to beryllium inhaled by a combatant jet,’ the Air Force Command stated that the lawsuit is presently being investigated by a task unit successful practice with prosecutors to clarify the cause," it added. 

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A Taiwanese Air Force crushed unit mounts a Sky Sword II rocket onto an Indigenous Defense Fighter craft arsenic portion of a combat readiness workout astatine Ching Chuan Kang Air Base successful Taichung connected Jan. 8. (I-Hwa Cheng/AFP via Getty Images)

Officials accidental they are "deeply saddened" by the death. 

Taiwan’s Air Force besides said that it volition "fully assistance the household successful handling the aftermath" and that it volition "conduct a broad reappraisal and amended the enactment process to forestall akin cases from happening again." 

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A Taiwanese aerial unit aviator climbs into the cockpit of his Indigenous Defense Fighter craft during a scramble arsenic portion of a combat readiness workout astatine the Ching Chuan Kang Air Base successful Taichung connected Jan. 7, 2025.  (I-Hwa Cheng/AFP via Getty Images)

The level progressive successful the incidental was an Indigenous Defense Fighter, the Taipei Times reported, adding that the unfortunate served successful the military for astir 17 years. 

A root acquainted with the craft told the Taipei Times that the accidental of a crushed unit subordinate being sucked into its motor – which has a reasonably tiny intake opening -- is "miniscule."  

The root said aft the level lands, its centrifugal velocity is connected a dilatory rotation and should person been stopped by the clip the instrumentality chocks were being deployed astatine the base. 

A Taiwanese Air Force Indigenous Defense Fighter craft takes disconnected during a scramble arsenic portion of a combat readiness workout astatine the Ching Chuan Kang Air Base successful Taichung connected Jan. 7.  (I-Hwa Cheng/AFP via Getty Images)

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Security cameras installed successful the hangar of the basal should supply the afloat representation arsenic to what happened, the root added.