Federal officials said the worker was told more than once not to go near the engine.
Investigators say the ground crew was told that the engines would keep running for two minutes.
Federal investigators said that the airport worker who died last month after being sucked into a jet engine had been told not to go near it.
The airport worker, who worked at Montgomery Regional Airport in Alabama, died on December 31 after getting too close to the engine of an American Eagle jet that had just arrived from Dallas, Texas.
In the preliminary report, which was released by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Monday, the employee was not named.
The report said that Envoy Air, which is part of American Airlines, ran the flight, which had 63 passengers and crew on board.
Investigators said in the report that after parking the plane at the gate, the pilots decided to leave the engines running for two minutes to let them cool down.
The report said they did this because an auxiliary power unit on board wasn't working and they needed the engines to stay on until the plane could be hooked up to power from the ground.
The pilots told people at the airport not to leave the engines running. The report also said that the crew had been told twice before the plane arrived that they shouldn't get close to it until the engines were turned off.
It also said that rotating lights on the plane were on to show that the engines were still running.
The employee who died was also told to stay back by a coworker who saw them almost get knocked over by the jet's exhaust and told them to stay back.
But a few seconds later, the worker walked in front of one of the engines and was pulled in. The report said that the worker heard a "bang" before the engine shut off. The pilots said that the plane was "vibrating violently."
The report also said that the American Eagle manual says ground crew shouldn't get closer than 15 feet to the front of an engine until its blades stop spinning.
Insider asked American Eagle and Montgomery Regional Airport in Alabama for comments, but neither of them responded right away.
A file photo of an American Eagle jet in Dallas, Texas, in 2018. The person pictured here is not linked to the story. Robert Alexander/Getty Images
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