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.
This is familial negligence...first and foremost.
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.
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!
a terrible tragedy
but wheelchairs do not go on escalators, alas
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!
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?
Did they have a person escorting her the entire trip? How did she get to the Airport in Hawaii?
This Woman was mentally incapacitated and she was by herself on a five Hour Flight? The Flight Attendants are not Babysitters for the Elderly.
When my Blind Elderly Aunt traveled from the East Coast to CA, I went there and flew back with her. The idea of hoping that a stranger will take care of her is ridiculous, especially a stranger who has never met her (hopefully) waiting at the Gate.
Just my $.02, your Mileage may vary.
Although in vain, because she died, for those two men- I shout a bravo in praise.
In before the Hillary pics.
The idiot was completely by herself. There was no attendant there.
Good news is that she died, cutting the airline’s cost from millions to hundreds of thousands (a death claim for a 75 year old, not worth much).
I’m just curious about who would let their wheelchair bound, 75 year old mom/grandma fly alone, without a family companion??
Either fly with Grandma/ma, on your available or vacay days, or postpone her trip until someone can fly with her. That’s how we would handle this in our family.