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'Healthy, Strong' Newark Airport Worker Dies Of Coronavirus, Coworker Says
A United Airlines employee who worked at Newark airport died of coronavirus despite being healthy and strong, his coworker says.
Carlos Consuegra, 52, of Union City, worked as a ramp service employee in Terminal B and died Tuesday of the virus.
Marco A. Alva, Sr., who worked in Terminal C, told NJ.com that Consuegra looked healthy until March 17 -- when he fell asleep on a company tug.
Consuegra was sent home and was evaluated at Trinitas Medical Center in Elizabeth, where he passed out and then was diagnosed with an ear infection, according to Alva.
With no sick time, Consuegra…
Police: NY Madman Beats Flight Attendant, Breaks Officer's Ribs After Landing At Newark Airport
An upstate New York man went berserk on a flight to Newark, barreling into the cockpit door and pummeling a female attendant before injuring one of six Port Authority police officers in a brawl on the tarmac, authorities said.
United Airlines Flight 4965 from Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C. had almost reached Newark shortly before 9 p.m. Thursday when passengers said Matthew Dingley went off.
Dingley, 28, of Wynantsville, NY, sprinted to the cockpit door and began banging on it, then attacked the much smaller attendant when she tried to stop him, they said.
A passeng…
