Air India flight attendant hospitalized after falling from plane

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INDIA Boeing 787-8 lands at Frankfurt airport.
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• An Air
  India flight attendant was hospitalized after falling from
  a parked plane in Mumbai,
  according to multiple reports. 
• In a statement to the Economic Times, an Air India
  spokesperson said, “In an unfortunate incident, one of our
  cabin crew members, Harsha Lobo, fell down on the tarmac from
  the Boeing-777 aircraft door while closing it.”
• BBC
  News reports that an airport official was quoted by The
  Hindu Newspaper saying, “She is conscious and well-oriented but
  has sustained compound (open) fracture of right lower leg bones
  and multiple blunt injuries.” 

An Air India flight attendant was hospitalized after falling from
a parked plane in Mumbai, according to multiple
reports.

According to the
Economic Times, Air India Flight 864, a New Delhi bound
flight, was preparing to depart from Chhatrapati Shivaji
International Airport, when a a 53-year-old flight attendant
experienced a serious accident. 

“In an unfortunate incident, one of our cabin crew members,
Harsha Lobo, fell down on the tarmac from the Boeing-777 aircraft
door while closing it,” an Air India spokesperson said in a
statement to the Economic Times,

Air India did not immediately respond to Business Insider’s
request for comment. 

Business Today reports that the female flight attendant was
trying to close the door during the push back from the gate when
she fell. New Delhi Television Limited (NDTV)
reports “Ms. Lobo fell several meters to the hard tarmac” and
that the flight was delayed for over an hour from its planned
7:00 a.m. takeoff time.  

BBC
News reports that an airport official was quoted by The Hindu
Newspaper saying, “She is conscious and well-oriented but
has sustained compound (open) fracture of right lower leg bones
and multiple blunt injuries.” 

The Business Times
reports Ms. Lobo was admitted to the Nanavati
Hospital.  According to
NTDV, Nanavati Hospital chief Rajendra Patankar told
reporters that aside from the injuries to her legs, Ms. Lobo has
“soft tissue injuries to her chest, abdomen and lower
spine.”

This is the latest incident involving Air India in the last few
months. Last week, an Air India plane traveling from the south
Indian city of Trichy to Dubai hit an
airport wall upon takeoff and had to be diverted to land in
Mumbai, after it had flown
for almost three hours with a damaged body.

And in July, two Air India planes had
to be grounded after passengers complained of being covered
with bedbug bites during their flights.