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‘Lost screws’ to blame for airport leg mangling

Airports of Thailand medics help an injured woman after her leg became caught in a moving walkway at Don Mueang airport on June 29. (Photo from Don Mueang International Airport-DMK Facebook page)

Missing screws under a platform of the moving walkway were the cause of the incident at Don Mueang Airport that cost a woman a part of her left leg on June 29, an observer in the fact-finding probe said on Friday.

Assoc Prof Weerachai Phut-dhawong, a lecturer of the Chemistry Department at Kasetsart University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts and Science, said it really was an accident.

Assoc Prof Weerachai was appointed by the victim’s family to join the fact-finding committee, which also comprises the Ministry of Transport, the Engineering…

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