A flight attendant had to be rushed to the hospital on Monday afternoon after she was seriously injured when she fell from the open door of a Boeing 737, which was preparing for departure at East Midlands Airport in England.
Accident investigators have opened a probe into the incident on December 16, which occurred when TUI Airways flight BY7158 was preparing to depart to the popular winter sun destination of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands.
The East Midlands Ambulance Service scrambled to the scene at around 4:30 pm on Monday and rushed the flight attendant to the Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham.
Witnesses who were onboard the plane said that everyone had boarded and all the doors had been closed in preparation for departure when the flight attendant had to reopen one of the main boarding doors.
The young woman expected the mobile airstairs to be attached to the side of the plane and went to step out onto the platform. By this point,…
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