An independent contractor unloading bags on a Frontier airplane perished after getting her hair tangled in the belt loader.The event took place about 10:20 p.m. She was working to offload an incoming plane after it landed at Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans for GAT Airline Ground Support, which has a contract with Frontier, when her hair managed to become entangled in the belt loader.The incident's specifics are unknown, however GAT CEO Mike Hough acknowledged in a statement to ABC News that the female victim suffered serious injuries and passed away as a result of the incident.What is now known is that her hair became tangled up in the belt loader's gear, according to Hough. We are devastated and doing everything we can to help her family and friends.Kevin Dolliole, Director of Aviation for Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, provided a comment about the event to ABC News' New Orleans affiliate WGNO.
Dolloile expressed her heartfelt sorrow over the untimely death of a GAT Airline Ground Support staff member. "The Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport offers its deepest sympathies to her family, friends, as well as to our associates at GAT and Fontier Airlines. We will continue to offer one another support in whatever manner we can during this tough time because [the victim] was a member of our Airport family.In the wake of the disaster, Hough urged people to extend their well wishes to the victim's family as well as to everyone at their New Orleans station.
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