Michal Ingraham, a 37-year-old fleet service agent, died in a collision at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas on April 20.
An American Airlines employee who died in April was killed in a freak accident involving faulty machinery despite a corporate investigator who suggested that the actual cause of death was suicide, according to a report.
When other ground agents yelled at Ingraham to hit the brakes, it appeared that the accelerator “got stuck” moments before the crash, witnesses told police. Toxicology reports indicated that Ingraham had no drugs or alcohol in his system at the time of the crash. Ingraham was a fleet service agent who as driving an aircraft-towing vehicle on the tarmac at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas when it crashed.Lynn Fast, the corporate investigator, told Austin police a day after the incident that he had “obtained information overnight indicating that the fatal incident was a suicide and not an accident,” according to a police report cited by the American-Statesman.
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