Plane runs over mans foot @ Gatwick.

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Hope the guy is Ok.

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Certainly something you don’t see everyday…

Hope his foot is intact and has not been crushed 😂

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He was airlifted to hospital, so unfortunately it doesn’t really sound minor. Hope they make a full recovery

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Bit more than just a broken toe I think. Not good.

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Yep, that’s gotta hurt!

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I though accidently crushing your foot underneath a chair hurt. 😯

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I do wonder how this managed to happen though. Hope the guy recovers

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Yeah. It’s not like you can’t see it. 🤔

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His foot got crushed by a PLANE…a Plane which is extremely heavy. Get this, if a car runs over your foot you may have at least 1 broken or fractured bone. Now use this info but change the car into a heave A320 family plane…I’ll let you use your imagination for this one.

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How in the world did that happen?

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Well: Thank you Russia.

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I can’t even begin to imagine the pain! Imagine just having a car go over your foot, that would hurt enough, but to have a plane go over your foot which is many times bigger and heavier, that would hurt so much more.

Surely a broken bone or two.

Imagine the chaos when it happened, at least they reacted quickly and he was taken to hospital via a helicopter.

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Ahaha, the article was quick to establish that the aircraft was a “Russian Aircraft” very early on

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“Waiting for extra plane parts as plane is not operational now” - hope there weren’t any nervous flyers on there…

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Gee @RAH that’s next level stuff… savage. Bye bye foot that’s for sure.

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You just had to tag me in this didn’t you - hopefully he recovers, but it didn’t look good that’s for sure

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Was he doing the pushback?

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I don’t really have the details but just based on experience, the ‘likely’ scenario is that the guy was disconnecting the tow-bar of the aircraft and perhaps due to a language barrier with the pilots, the parking brake wasn’t set, thus the aircraft would have rolled forward as soon as the tow bar was lifted and straight over his foot/leg. (Disclaimer: this is not a confirmed fact, purely an opinion based on where the aircraft was, and who would be feasibly close enough to the nose gear for this to happen)

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My question is how was his foot trapped under the aircraft if they were taxing to the runway. The plane should of just ran over his foot and kept going i dout they would feel that.

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Sounds like an understatement to me

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