A person died on Wednesday after they “ended up” inside a running plane engine at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, officials said, although the circumstances of the person’s death remained unclear. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, said in a statement that the episode involved its Flight KL1341, which had been scheduled to take off for Billund, Denmark. “We are currently taking care of the passengers and employees who witnessed the incident at Schiphol,” the airline said. It was unclear whether the person who died, whose name had not been made public, entered the plane’s engine or whether they were pulled into it. KLM did not say whether the person who died was an airline employee or airport worker. Schiphol Airport said in a message posted in Dutch on social media that “there was a horrible incident where a person ended up in an airplane engine.” “Our thoughts go out to the relatives, and we are caring for the passengers and colleagues who saw this,” the airport said. The passengers onboard disembarked after the episode, the Dutch military police said on social media, adding that they were investigating. Images that circulated on social media showed fire trucks and other emergency vehicles next to the plane on the tarmac. The plane was an Embraer ERJ-190, a twin-engine jet, according to FlightAware, a website that tracks air travel. The jet carries up to 100 people, and is known as the “Cityhopper,” because it is used for short flights within Europe, according to the airline.<br/>
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South Korea‘s largest airline, Korean Air Lines, which is finalizing its merger with Asiana Airlines, and its affiliates secured major new routes to Indonesia. T’way Air also secured eight new routes, expanding its reach into Central and South Asia. According to industry sources on Tuesday, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation (MLIT) recently awarded 30 routes to 11 airlines. The most coveted Busan-Bali route was awarded to Air Busan Co. and the Cheongju-Bali route to T‘way Air. The Busan-Jakarta route went to Air Busan while Jin Air Co., Korean Air and Jeju Air secured the Incheon-Batam route. Indonesian routes, which used to be served exclusively from Incheon International Airport, were criticized for being inaccessible to other regions and being expensive due to the concentration of operations by Korean Air and Asiana Airlines. The 2024 allocation to provincial cities outside the metropolitan area is expected to improve the convenience of international flights for regional residents, a change that was welcomed by local airports.<br/>