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 in a hangar when heavy equipment gave way. He spent four weeks in intensive care before his family agreed to end life support this month. “Georgie was a young and very loved member of the team,” a source told British tabloid The Sun. Virgin Atlantic has said it is “heartbroken” by Buxton’s death and is investigating alongside authorities and Boeing. The airline told Simple Flying that Buxton, 23, died in a hospital and that an engine was not involved. The jet remains grounded. A coroner’s inquest into his death opens this week in London.
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