There’s been a surprise update to the tragic story of an airport worker “ingested” by the engine of a Delta Airlines jet on Friday. It answers the big question of how it happened. Nobody did anything wrong, other than David Renner. He did it on purpose.
Suicide by jet engine
The National Transportation Safety Board put their investigation on hold when they learned that 27-year-old David Renner intentionally walked into the air intake zone of a jet engine. He knew what would happen and did it on purpose.
At least it wasn’t painful. He died instantly, coming out the other side as a pale pink mist. His brother was kind enough to explain the details to the public.
According to his younger brother Joshua, David hadn’t shown any signs this was coming, “despite previous mental health struggles.” Things had finally been going well and stable for the young airport worker.
An airport employee in Texas committed suicide by jumping into the engine of an airplane
The employee's name was David Renner and he was 27 years old. He walked up to plane with the engines still running pic.twitter.com/65DCRjEmuz
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David was “happy, sober for months and gave no indication he wanted to hurt himself.” Not lately. Jumping into a jet engine took the family as much by surprise as his co-workers who witnessed the tragedy.
“This isn’t the first time David has tried something like this,” Joshua relates. “There were other times. This time I thought it was different.” His older brother’s childhood was “complicated at times with living in two separate households growing up just like all the other divorced kids.”
Before is fatal encounter with the jet engine, David “had been clean for over eight months, was in therapy, [was] actively taking his prescribed medication and had finally became the David we all knew he could be.”
Zero indication he planned it
While Renner was working as part of a ground crew at San Antonio International Airport, on June 23, Delta Flight 1111 arrived from Los Angeles. As it taxied to the gate, one engine remained running.
David calmly walked right up to the point he was sucked up like a bread crumb in a shop vac. Before that, he was “living every day to the fullest.” All Joshua can say is that “there was zero indication this time” that he planned to take his life.
Their parents had been checking in on him regularly and “were making sure that he was taking good care of himself.” David, his brother warns, “is one of many others that suffer with mental illness and it’s not always very clear to us to see.”
⚡️An airport employee in Texas committed suicide by jumping into the engine of an airplane
The employee's name was David Renner and he was 27 years old. He walked up to plane with the engines still running, and jumped into this meat grinder. pic.twitter.com/ROIOJ0XCxl
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They’ll remember him for his sense of humor. Before his trip through the powerful jet engine, David “loved to perform magic tricks for his friends and family.” He “also loved making people laugh. He made it his mission to tell everyone at least one joke a day.”
It was the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office who made the official determination of suicide. The report notes David “died Friday of blunt and sharp force injuries at San Antonio International Airport when he was ingested into the engine of the airliner.” Emergency crews discovered a “horrific scene.”
The NTSB was shocked. This was a new one for them. “There were no operational issues with either the airplane or the airport.” They “launched an investigation but it was halted Monday after the medical examiner’s determination.“
