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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You keep sniping at people to read the article.
Perhaps YOU should do a better job at excerpting and posting.
I guess they thought they could trust Alaska and Huntliegh, Alaska Airlines after all has a better reputation than United. Hindsight is always 20/20.
a terrible tragedy
but wheelchairs do not go on escalators, alas
So you died and made me the English Professor here?
“Should have sent a family member or someone close to accompany her...all the way”
Correct.
My DIL flew from the East Coast to Honolulu to pick up her mother-——————and then repeated the trip a month later to take her mother home.
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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!
The problem is....you can’t trust grandma. Sorry...it’s negligence on the part of the family.
Wouldn't it be the contractor that the family hired who would be responsible .. that is, if anyone else other than Ms. Kekona is actually responsible for what happened?
The family deserves as much the blame for this too. A wheelchair bound person should never be allowed to travel alone.
So you died and made me the English Professor here?
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Perhaps the same person who died and made you the blog pimp queen in charge of posting badly excerpted articles designed to confuse people. Which then allows you the smug satisfaction of correcting people.
You’re old, alone and sad, aren’t you?
Without knowing the arrangements between the contractor and the airline, and how that all interlocks, if this woman was compromised enough to get on an escalator with a wheelchair, I simply don’t believe she should have been traveling alone, period.
And it is hard for me to believe her family didn’t know she was compromised enough to actually put her wheelchair on an escalator.
I am sorry for her suffering and her loss.
But not a single member of her family could have gone with her, and entrusted her to strangers, and is now suing them?
I am not inclined to side with her family unless I know more detail. The family will likely win, this will be settled out of court, probably, but I don’t like the smell of it.
Can’t trust grandma? Seems to me you can’t trust workers these days, they had one job!
Even as a scheme to get money for your family.
Come to think of it, that does sound like a good idea. I might try it when I become old and retarded and on death's doorstep. This granny might be smarter than I think.
:)
Who pissed in your Cheerios today?
No kidding . Just before Christmas we were in Kohl's.
Big sign..Don't put strollers, shopping carts on escalator.
We used the elevator.
“This granny might be smarter than I think. “
Don’t know why you’d say that as she’s dead now because of this accident. If this was a scheme done by her for money it cost her dearly. At her age she should have known better.
The family did not indicate that they needed assistance upon purchasing the ticket. They did not check the boxes.
If she refused assistance after getting in her powered wheelchair, she is then on her own. It is the fault of her and her family, not Huntleigh nor Alaskan Airlines.
Be nice. Mears is a very sweet lady.
Oooops. I meant Morgana. She is also very nice. Respect your elders
In my experience Alaska Airlines is the single most pleasant airline to fly on, bar none.
Nothing against granny (as opposed to her worthless family) but I hope AA comes out unbled.
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