MUMBAI: An Air India flight attendant fell from the rear door of a parked Boeing 777 onto the tarmac in Mumbai on Monday morning, suffering critical injuries. The distance from the door to the bottom, resources said, will have been around 9 metre, or about 30 toes. The coincidence took place at 6.10am, when Harsha Lobo (52) and her cabin group colleagues were readying the airplane for a 7am departure to Delhi.
“The step ladder wasn’t aligned to the door when she opened it. She slipped and fell in the course of the hole between the door and the ladder, onto the tarmac,” said a source. “Though seriously injured, she wasn’t subconscious.”
Lobo suffered a compound fracture on the right leg, fractures in both heels and cushy tissue damage within the chest, abdomen and decrease spine. “She also suffered from a sprain within the neck (cervical spine sprain),” said Nanavati Hospital’s COO Dr Rajendra Patankar.
This is the second one coincidence in recent times involving an Air India staffer at Mumbai airport. On December 16, 2015, service engineer Ravi Subramanian died after he used to be sucked into the reside engine of an A319 airplane that used to be being readied for a Hyderabad flight.
Elaborating on Monday’s incident, a cabin group member said, “The standard procedure is that when a step ladder is aligned to an airplane door, the ladder operator climbs up and faucets the window of the door to signify to the group that the door can also be safely opened. After a group member opens the door, a purple rope is fixed throughout it until the time it's opened for passenger use.”
Air India has begun a probe. The key question is whether the step ladder operator had wrongly indicated that it used to be aligned to the door or whether the flight attendant opened the door ahead of she were given the indication.
An airline spokesperson said, “(The flight attendant) fell while remaining the door… She has been admitted to Nanavati Hospital.”
Praveen Tonsekar, a business class passenger who used to be on the flight, said the passengers were ignorant of the coincidence.
“We had all boarded through 7am. The doorways were locked. But after 15 mins, the captain announced that the flight used to be watching for air visitors keep watch over clearance. Then, at 7.30am, he announced that there were some technical and issues of safety. Finally, around eight.05am, the airplane pushed again for departure,” he said.
“It used to be most effective once I landed in Delhi after 10am that a good friend called to tell me in regards to the coincidence. It’s very sad. I did see the group crew up and communicate amongst themselves, but I thought they will have to be discussing the technical issue that resulted in the prolong.”
“The step ladder wasn’t aligned to the door when she opened it. She slipped and fell in the course of the hole between the door and the ladder, onto the tarmac,” said a source. “Though seriously injured, she wasn’t subconscious.”
Lobo suffered a compound fracture on the right leg, fractures in both heels and cushy tissue damage within the chest, abdomen and decrease spine. “She also suffered from a sprain within the neck (cervical spine sprain),” said Nanavati Hospital’s COO Dr Rajendra Patankar.
This is the second one coincidence in recent times involving an Air India staffer at Mumbai airport. On December 16, 2015, service engineer Ravi Subramanian died after he used to be sucked into the reside engine of an A319 airplane that used to be being readied for a Hyderabad flight.
Elaborating on Monday’s incident, a cabin group member said, “The standard procedure is that when a step ladder is aligned to an airplane door, the ladder operator climbs up and faucets the window of the door to signify to the group that the door can also be safely opened. After a group member opens the door, a purple rope is fixed throughout it until the time it's opened for passenger use.”
Air India has begun a probe. The key question is whether the step ladder operator had wrongly indicated that it used to be aligned to the door or whether the flight attendant opened the door ahead of she were given the indication.
An airline spokesperson said, “(The flight attendant) fell while remaining the door… She has been admitted to Nanavati Hospital.”
Praveen Tonsekar, a business class passenger who used to be on the flight, said the passengers were ignorant of the coincidence.
“We had all boarded through 7am. The doorways were locked. But after 15 mins, the captain announced that the flight used to be watching for air visitors keep watch over clearance. Then, at 7.30am, he announced that there were some technical and issues of safety. Finally, around eight.05am, the airplane pushed again for departure,” he said.
“It used to be most effective once I landed in Delhi after 10am that a good friend called to tell me in regards to the coincidence. It’s very sad. I did see the group crew up and communicate amongst themselves, but I thought they will have to be discussing the technical issue that resulted in the prolong.”
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