Family Loses Suit in Delta Engine Death (paddleyourownkanoo.com)

A lawsuit filed by the family of Kyler Efinger, a 30-year-old man killed when he was sucked into the engine of a Delta Air Lines Airbus A220at Salt Lake City International Airport on New Year's Day 2024, has been dismissed with prejudice. Judge Heather Brereton granted the city's request to dismiss, ruling that the airport owed duties to the general traveling public rather than to Efinger specifically. The family had alleged that airport workers failed to alert law enforcement about Efinger's erratic behavior and that a communications breakdown delayed the response to his breach of an emergency exit.