Got to love her for it. Maybe she just didn’t want to be separated from her luggage, or thought the conveyor belt was just another one of those airport escalators. What ever it is, this woman who the internet assumes is a first time flyer hopped on to the belt along with her suitcases thinking it was a shuttle of sorts to her plane and found her self, lets just say, on the ground instead. The video has gone viral, not surprisingly given that fellow passengers and other ground staff were agog, watching what happened until someone had the presence of mind to stop the belt.
While it took everyone a moment to register what was happening, a member of the ground staff can be seen quickly stopping the conveyor belt from moving further and taking her to the luggage sorter room!
Here’s the video in a tweet below which garnered over two hundred thousand views.
While one commentator said it could be a case of ‘Airport brain’ that led her to walk on to the conveyor belt, others speculated that she clearly hasn’t flown very much, or that maybe she was hoping for a cheaper ticket by flying with the cargo. Others wondered where she was going and quipped at how polite she was to wait for the suitcase that was already ‘boarded’ on the belt, to pass before she hopped on.
While many couldn’t help but laugh despite themselves, one wonders if this little airport mishap could lead to future innovation in airport transport where you and your luggage go straight from check in belt to the aircraft. Hey wouldn’t you be up for the ride? Sure beats carting our stuff around on a trolley! Bravo lady. Hope you had a safe and uneventful flight wherever you were headed.
According to this report on The Sun the incident was situated at the Istanbul airport newly opened in April this year, with a capacity for 90 million passengers a year.
With inputs from The Sun
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