A shocking incident occurred at Bangkok’s Don Mueang Airport, resulting in a woman losing her lower left leg. The incident took place at approximately 8:40 am on June 29.
The woman’s leg became trapped in a moving walkway after she fell down due to an impact from a piece of luggage.
Reports from Don Mueang Airport confirmed the occurrence of the accident, which left the woman severely injured.
According to Thai media Manager Daily 360 Degree, the woman’s leg was completely severed above the knee and she was then sent to the hospital.
The incident happened in Terminal 2 of Don Mueang Airport, where the woman was preparing to board a domestic flight.
Following the accident, the injured woman was promptly taken to Bhumibol Adulyadej Hospital for immediate medical attention where the hospital staff is providing necessary treatment and care to address her critical condition.
Authorities at Don Mueang Airport have initiated an investigation into the accident.
Closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage will be thoroughly examined to understand the sequence of events leading up to the incident.
The engineering team at the airport has temporarily halted the use of the travelator involved in the accident.
A comprehensive evaluation will be conducted to determine the cause and implement necessary safety measures to prevent similar incidents in the future.
The incident serves as a reminder of the importance of safety precautions and vigilance when using airport facilities and at the time of writing, investigations into the incident are underway.
Other freak accidents
Last month, a woman in Indonesia was found dead 3 days after falling into the gap at an airport lift.
According to a report by Tribun Medan, an Indonesian woman, Asiyah Sinta Hasibuan, fell to her death after falling into a huge gap between the lift and the ground outside while she was exiting the lift.
The shocking incident took place on 24 April at the Kualanamu International Airport in Medan, Indonesia and was caught on CCTV.
Her dead body was later found 3 days later at the bottom of the lift shaft, on 27 April.
The CCTV footage, which has been circulating on social media, shows the woman entering the lift, which has doors on both sides.
The doors behind her then opened first but she was unaware and appeared to be confused as the doors in front of her stayed shut.
The doors behind her then closed and the lift appeared to have stalled as the woman started to panic, as she then pressed the buttons on the lift and took out her phone to make a phone call.
The doors in front of her then opened and the woman then took a step forward, without realising that there was a huge gap between the lift and the floor, and she then fell to her death down the gap.
Asiyah was on her way home at the time when she got a call from her niece who was having problems with her documentation and stopped by the airport staff.
She rushed to the airport and called her niece while inside the lift, and her niece found it weird that her aunt didn’t show up and became unreachable.
The niece then asked the airport staff for help to look for her aunt, but the staff couldn’t find her, saying that they had even checked the elevators, which they described as working fine, with no signs of Asiyah.
The niece couldn’t contact her aunt and ended up missing her flight, and she then reported her aunt missing the next day, saying that she was in a lift at the time when they lost contact.
Staff members at the airport later came across a foul stench coming from the lift a few days later, and a maintenance team was then deployed to check it out, and that was when they discovered her body.
The case was then reported to the North Sumatra Police with the airport authorities assisting them with the investigations, and that was when the police discovered that Asiyah had fallen through the gap when they check the CCTV footage.
A video of the disturbing video can be found here. (Warning: Images are distressing, viewer discretion is advised)
