Man dies after being sucked into plane engine in front of passengers at airport

A person died at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport after falling into the spinning turbine blades of a departing passenger jet, Dutch airline KLM said.

The death occurred as a KLM flight was ready to depart for Billund in Denmark. The plane, carrying up to 104 passengers, was scheduled to take off for Billund in Denmark at 2.25pm.

"An... incident took place at Schiphol today during which a person ended up in a running aircraft engine," Dutch flagship carrier KLM said in a statement.