Global News: A woman had to have part of her leg amputated after it became trapped in a movable walkway at Bangkok’s Don Mueang Airport on Thursday, officials said.
The 57-year-old Thai woman was on her way to board a domestic flight to Nakhon Si Thammarat province at around 8:40 a.m. when the incident took place.
Authorities believe the victim, who was not named, fell on the moving walkway and the force of the fall exposed the walkway’s safety cover. The woman’s left leg was then drawn into the mechanism, the Bangkok Post reported, and a medical team had to amputate her leg above the left knee at the airport. MORE
DO NOT search “escalator accident” with the safe search off! You will not be able to un-see!
Must have been a flimsy cover if the “force of her fall” caused it to flip up and allowing her leg to get stuck! And What the heck?!
I saw a drunkard roll down the length of an escalator that was about 100 feet long at a casino a few years ago. Looked like she had been run through an automatic laundry with a dozen cheese graters.
After this incident, I bet she was hopping mad.
@Cynic — I share your inappropriate sense of humor. /-:
I wonder…is her name Eileen? Oh, wait, Thai. Irene?
Uncle Al AT 8:43 PM
“Cynic — I share your inappropriate sense of humor. /-:
I wonder…is her name Eileen? Oh, wait, Thai. Irene?”
…by now, it’s Peg.
Or ‘Pleg’, s’il vous plait…
…I’ve been there to hold the gauze when a flight surgeon cut a person from a car when there was no other way.
Quite exciting outside of a surgical setting.
And noisy. Don’t really have an anesthesiologists under such circumstances…
…only thing I know about Bankok is their drug capacity is legendary among Canadian rock bands…
https://youtu.be/Wy7cmGyKwek
In the photos of her with one leg, there’s not a drop of blood ANYWHERE. What’s going on?
When I was a little boy my aunt would always take me downtown (Chicago) during the Christmas Season. The displays, the toys, Santa, etc. Marshall Fields was the biggie. And after getting off the down escalator I looked at Aunt Florence and said, “What do they do when the basement fills up with stairs?”
Escalator accidents often take the form of what is known as “de-gloving” when the side of a hand or foot gets caught in a gap that is a little wider than it should be. The injury is so called because it can rip all the skin off the appendage, leaving the bones and musculature relatively intact (think Terminator T2).
Cowgirl, unless it was Stacy Abrams or Whoopi, then the entire concourse could have collapsed.
If it was Stacy Abrams or Whoopi, the escalator would have gagged them out.
I don’t even care to recall the number of accidents that occurred on the escalator that was in the store where I worked.
The department I was in, afforded me a front row seat to watch patrons whose untied shoelaces or flip flops would get them in trouble.
The airport’s lawyer said she doesn’t have a leg to stand on. I know… 😮
Now she can get a job at IHop!