The 35-year-old man, named locally as Andrea Russo, ran onto the tarmac at Milan Bergamo Airport, the third-busiest international airport in Italy on Tuesday. He then got sucked into a plane's engine, it is said, as the aircraft attempted to take off.

Bergamo airport in Italy was temporarily closed after a man died on the runway during take-off preparations. Operations were suspended as authorities launched an investigation. The deceased was not a passenger or airport staff,