'His body was unrecognizable' | Family of worker killed during incident at Delta TechOps heartbroken

Published: Aug 27, 2024 Duration: 00:01:43 Category: News & Politics

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Chelsea. Thank you a live look now at Hartsville Jackson International Airport, which is also Delta Airlines headquarters today. We are learning more about a maintenance accident that killed two Delta employees and injured another on Tuesday morning. In a report from Atlanta, fire workers described running from a tire explosion. Tuesday morning right now. Delta is not saying that the tire exploded. It says the tire was being disassembled. We are learning 58 year old Merkel, Mar Wegg and 37 year old Louis Al Dorando were the Delta employees who were killed in this tragic incident at the Delta Tech ops facility. It's like a mechanic shop. We spoke to Mar Wegg's family and they tell us he was a loving man who helped anyone he could. His son, Andre Coleman spoke with 11 alive just hours after the family got that heartbreaking phone call that this accident was deadly. He tells us the 58 year old served in the Air Force for four years and worked for Marta and Delta would have been his last job. I wanted to view the body because that I didn't believe it was true. Uh Neither did my mom what we were told, we couldn't view it as unrecognizable. So if you, we identified him by tattoos and is Mississippi State Lanyard around the snake, I'll make sure I keep your legacy alive and who you are alive while on this earth, while we are thinking of all of those people impacted by this tragedy, another employee was also injured but has not been identified. Meanwhile, an investigation into how and why this happened continues. If you wanna read more about this accident and investigation, we have everything we know so far on the home page of 11 alive.com.

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