An employee trapped in a cargo hold on the plane was rescued in an hour...I almost lost both legs
Mar 25, 2025
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According to British media Daily Mail, Ali Celikten (29), who was working on a baggage loading day at Istanbul Airport, was arranging passengers' luggage in the cargo compartment of a Turkish Airlines flight. But my colleagues closed the cargo hatch without knowing that he was still on the plane.
Ali knocked on the thick door and shouted for help, but no one could hear him because of the engine and the sound of the wind.
Eventually, the plane took off from Istanbul Airport and headed to Athens Airport in Greece.
When the plane reached a cruising altitude of 36,000 feet, the cargo compartment temperature dropped to minus 25 degrees Celsius.
Ali tried to inform the flight attendant that he was trapped, to no avail.
As he became increasingly frozen, he opened his passengers' suitcases and took out his clothes.
At this time, employees at Istanbul Airport noticed that he was missing and reported him to the police.
CCTV investigation found that he entered and did not come out of the plane's cargo compartment, and the airport control tower immediately contacted the plane.
The plane made an emergency return and landed at Turkiye's Izmir airport about an hour later.
Paramedics found Ali in the cargo hold with severe hypothermia and frostbite and rushed him. He almost lost his leg in this accident.
He has since been confined to a closed, ice-cold room. I couldn't do anything but cry" and filed a complaint against the employees who accidentally locked them up.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
