Surveillance footage captured the moment Kyler Efinger burst through an emergency exit door at Salt Lake City International Airport (Picture: FOX 13)
The chilling final moments of a man who missed his flight then breached security and climbed inside an airplane engine have been revealed.
Kyler Efinger, 30, died after entering a plane turbine engine at Salt Lake City International Airport on New Year’s Day.
New surveillance footage from the airport shows Efinger running toward a Delta Air Lines gate which is closed, with no other passengers or staff there. He seems to exchange words with a custodian, then begins to walk and runs off.
Another clip in a different area of the terminal shows Efinger trying to pull a locked gate door open, and falling down, then getting up and trying again. Efinger then goes to a window with a view of the tarmac and pounds on it, the footage obtained by FOX 13 on Saturday shows.
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A third clip shows Efinger bust open an emergency exit door using his foot and run down the stairs. The last part of the video shows a man running on the tarmac toward a plane that is moving in his direction. It cuts out just before he reaches the aircraft.
His father, Judd Efinger, told the TV station that he spoke to his son the night of the incident.
‘He got held up in security, missed his flight, and those phone calls, I just knew it was coming on. They call it the manic phase,’ he said. ‘Those just don’t end well for him. Obviously, this one, the worst ever.’
Efinger was supposed to fly to Denver to visit his sick grandfather, and his family believes he suffered an unspecified mental health episode.
Kyler Efinger pounded on a window inside the airport after missing his flight (Picture: FOX 13)
Kyler Efinger got through an emergency exit door at Salt Lake City International Airport on the night of January 1 (Picture: FOX 13)
An airport store manager contacted control center dispatchers just before 10pm that day to report that a passenger had gone through an emergency exit door to the ramp area.
About 10 minutes later, airport workers and police found a man unconscious in a wing-mounted engine of an occupied plane that was heading to San Francisco.
Responding officers used naloxone, which is used to reverse and stop opiate overdoses.
Surveillance footage shows Kyle Efinger running onto the tarmac (Picture: FOX 13)
The death is being investigated and a cause has not yet been determined (Picture: KUTV)
‘Based on the officers’ training and experience and their observation, they did believe that there had been some indicators that the use of naloxone may have been appropriate,’ police spokesman Brent Weisberg told KSL-TV.
‘Despite the administration and other life-saving efforts, including CPR, the man did die on scene.’
The cause of Efinger’s death has not been released.
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Surveillance footage shows a man breaking through an emergency exit door and run onto the tarmac at Salt Lake City International Airport.