Sept. 1 (UPI) -- A baggage handler working at a major New Orleans airport has died after his long hair appeared to get caught in a plane, officials said.
Handler Germani Thompson was unloading a Frontier flight at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport earlier this week when the accident occurred, sources said.
Thompson, 26, was seriously injured when his hair got caught in the machinery of his loader on the conveyor, airport officials said. She was taken to Ochsner's Kenner Medical Center and pronounced dead. Thompson was an employee of GAT Airline Ground Support.
According to ABC News, GAT CEO Mike Huff said, "What we do know so far is that her hair got tangled in the tape loader machinery." Even though I am at a loss, I will support her family and friends in any way I can."
"We are deeply saddened by the tragic loss of a member of GAT Airlines' ground support team," Kevin Doriol, director of aviation at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, told WGNO-TV.
"[The airport] extends its deepest condolences to her family and friends, and to our partners at GAT and Frontier Airlines."
Thompson is a former basketball player from Tougaloo Her College in Jackson, Mississippi, with a degree in sociology.
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