A man has died after reportedly being sucked into a plane engine at Woodbourne Airport near Blenheim.
Safe Air has confirmed one of its engineers was killed during a routine maintenance check this morning.
A statement said the company was co-operating with investigations launched by police and the Department of Labour.
Police southern communications team leader Mike Murphy said emergency services were called to the airport at 8:10am.
St John's Ambulance spokesman Ian Henderson said staff found a man dead when they arrived at the airport.
Woodbourne Airport manager Dean Heiford said the incident happened in a section of the airport used by Air New Zealand group.
Mr Heiford said he'd heard the man had been sucked into a plane engine.
A further statement would be issued by Safe Air later this morning.
Based in Blenheim, Safe Air is an aviation maintenance, repair, overhaul design and manufacturing business who do work for both the military and commercial airlines.
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