SALT LAKE CITY — FOX 13 Information has obtained footage from safety cameras on the Salt Lake Metropolis Worldwide Airport exhibiting the moments main as much as a person’s premature loss of life after he entered the tarmac by way of an emergency exit, then was ultimately discovered useless inside a jet engine turbine.
Kyler Efinger, 30, died the night time of Jan. 1 after climbing into the turbine.
Salt Lake Metropolis Police mentioned that at 9:52 p.m., a retailer supervisor contained in the airport reported a disturbance involving a passenger on the secured aspect of the terminal. Airport management later advised officers {that a} man went by way of an emergency exit door.
Newly launched movies from the Salt Lake Metropolis Division of Airports present Efinger operating as much as a locked door at one of many gates and trying to open it. He then has a short interplay with an individual who seems to be a custodian, then runs off and tries to open one other door.
Efinger then makes use of his sneakers — which he had beforehand taken off — to hit the window subsequent to the second door. He then runs off once more.
A safety digital camera simply outdoors an emergency exit then exhibits Efinger kicking the door open, then operating down the stairwell.
After that, the following video offered is from a thermal imaging digital camera, exhibiting a distant view of the tarmac. It exhibits a airplane slowly taxiing as Efinger runs towards it.
The video cuts out earlier than he reaches the plane.
The reason for his loss of life has not but been launched.
There are dozens of different clips with a number of hours of footage offered by airport officers, which FOX 13 shall be reviewing and probably releasing extra. They span from him being dropped off on the airport to going by way of safety, strolling by way of the terminal, approaching the gate, and ultimately, operating away from the gate and dropping his belongings.
Efinger was scheduled to fly to Denver to see his sick grandfather, however he had an unspecified episode and breached the airport safety door. His household believes the incident stemmed from one other psychological well being disaster.
“He received held up in safety, missed his flight, and people telephone calls, I simply knew it was approaching. They name it the manic part. These simply don’t finish properly for him,” his father, Judd Efinger, advised FOX 13 within the days after the unlucky incident. “Clearly, this one, the worst ever.”