Virgin engineer died after explosion in fuel tank

Georgie Buxton was injured after a "non-combustion explosion" inside the fuel tank.

A Virgin Atlantic engineer died of a traumatic brain injury after an explosion as he worked inside a plane fuel tank, an inquest heard.

Phil Noble/Reuters A Virgin Atlantic engineer has died four weeks after machinery crushed him inside a Boeing 787 at London’s Heathrow Airport. Georgie Buxton, who joined the airline about two years ago from Ryanair, where he was a technician at Stansted Airport, was running maintenance tests inside the jet’s fuel tank

An aircraft technician was killed in a plane’s fuel tank when some heavy machinery collapsed on top of him while he was carrying out maintenance work at London’s Heathrow Airport, according to a report. Georgie Buxton, 23, died earlier this month – just two years after starting his technician role at Virgin Atlantic, t

A 'much-loved' member of Virgin Atlantic's engineering team died after a plane collapsed on him while working at Heathrow Airport, with an inquest set to open this week

Engineer, just 23, 'crushed to death in Boeing 787 fuel tank' at Heathrow Airport  GB News