Posted on 12/29/2017 9:44:57 AM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Family sues Alaska Airlines after wheelchair-bound grandmother fell down airport escalator and died following surgery to amputate her leg due to wounds from her accident
A family is suing Alaska Airlines and a contractor after a disabled 75-year-old grandmother suffered a fall down a Portland International Airport escalator in June and later died.
Video captured the moment that Bernice Kekona, seat-belted to her power wheelchair, tumbled and crashed down an escalator, landing near the bottom with the heavy chair on top of her.
After her flight from Hawaii landed in Portland in June 2017, the family says they hired a contractor to make sure Kekona arrived safely to her connecting flight. But now they argue the airline and its contractor did not provide the service as promised.
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From the article, it sounds like this poor confused woman put herself on the escalator.
Yup, and elevators are provided for this. Slam dunk for some lucky attorney.
Unless an Alaska Airlines staff member tried to put her wheelchair on an escalator, there is no case.
I don’t see how that’s Alaska Airlines’ fault. I’m sure there are elevators in that airport. Either way, hard to see AA as the either the direct cause or proximate cause of this and without cause you ain’t got negligence.
Exactly. That's what elevators are for.
Bless old retarded and legless granny.
It's the American dream!!!
“Who is the idiot who decided to put a wheelchair on an escalator?”
Read the article! She was a sick old woman. Someone was suppose to escort her from one terminal to the next. They got her off one plane but left her on her own. She got confused. She thought she was getting in an elevator but by the time she realized her mistake it was too late.
This company, Alaska and Huntliegh, had one job and people too lazy to do it?
This is familial negligence...first and foremost.
It sounds like they may be comparing this to the airline being responsible for a minor on the plane and somehow the minor gets lost and is picked up by a pimp.
Or something like that.
Read the article! The family paid Alaska and Huntliegh to have someone take her from one flight to another.
From the article:
Kekona's family is now suing Alaska Airlines and Huntleigh, USA for failing to provide what they say was agreed upon gate-to-gate transportation.
I believe she was trying to make a connecting flight and was not escorted between gates.
The family says they hired someone to take care of her but the airlines says she refused help. Someone is lying.
The video shows granny wheeling herself to the escalator. If she was that addleheaded then the family should have been there to help her themselves.
“Who is the idiot who decided to put a wheelchair on an escalator? Everyone I’ve seen has a sign for no wheelchairs and no strollers.”
Exactly my thoughts. I thought they were specifically verboten on escalators. How can one even imagine that could work? Sure, if there is an attendant leaning the chair back, but even then, the steps don’t seem like they would be wide enough for the big rear wheels.
They did! The company Huntliegh got her off the flight then left her on her own.
More here:
https://www.kxly.com/news/spokane-family-sues-alaska-airlines-for-mothers-escalator-fall/678606175
Sorry....the family didn't make a great decision on this one. Should have sent a family member or someone close to accompany her...all the way. It's simply not that much money.
Something just doesn't seem right...and I'm talking "the family".
Well on 2nd read, if they hired a gate-to-gate attendant they are distinctly liable.
“Bless old retarded and legless granny. “
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Oh Bagster,there you go again. Do NOT poke fun at old people.
Signed,
Mears——(an old person.)
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She thought she was in an elevator? Why on earth would any family send a 75 year old woman on a trip like that alone? Granted a lot of 75 year old men or women could handle it without any problem. I’m lots older and probably could but I’m not handicapped and don’t require a wheelchair.
Trust someone else to take care of someone they should have taken care of themselves? Even if they had no interest in going to OR, some member of the family should have made the trip with her...I doubt she was a world traveler with lots of experience.
No doubt that thought occurred to them when it was too late. Sad but good grief, when are people going to start using the brain God gave them? An elderly handicapped woman on a plane alone from HI to OR? Nothing works except stupidity!
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