ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) -- A baggage handler at Reagan Washington National Airport was killed Tuesday when she was pinned between a luggage loading device she was driving and a U.S. Airways plane being prepared for departure.
US Airways spokesman David Castelveter said the woman drove the baggage loader - a mobile conveyor belt used to move luggage into and out of an airplane's cargo hold - too far and was pinned between the device and the plane.
The accident happened about 30 minutes before US Airways Express Flight 1821's scheduled 7 a.m. departure for Chicago's O'Hare Airport. It was not immediately clear whether passengers were on the Embraer 170 jet, which seats about 70 people. Passengers scheduled for that flight were put on other flights to Chicago.
The National Transportation Safety Board was investigating. The victim was not immediately identified.
