{"id":424356,"date":"2026-05-09T17:32:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/delta-employee-tug-collision-orlando-jet-bridge\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T17:32:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:32:56","slug":"delta-employee-dies-after-tug-vehicle-collides-with-jet-bridge-in-orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=424356","title":{"rendered":"Delta Employee Dies After Tug Vehicle Collides With Jet Bridge In Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254993\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/delta-air-lines\/\"  >Delta Air Lines<\/a><\/span> ground crew member has died following a ramp accident at <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"261114\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/orlando-international-airport\/\"  >Orlando International Airport<\/a><\/span> (MCO). The accident, which occurred just before 11:00 PM on Thursday, May 7, saw an airport tug vehicle slam into a jet bridge while a Delta <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3525529\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/airbus-a321\/\"  >Airbus A321<\/a><\/span> was parked at the gate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ground crew member tragically lost their life after an accident at Orlando International Airport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,4056,475,565,4596,583,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aircraft-tug","category-airports","category-delta-air-lines","category-jet-bridge","category-orlando-international-airport","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=424356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424357,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424356\/revisions\/424357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}