Harsha Lobo, 52, was on an Air India flight at Mumbai Airport getting ready to depart for Delhi on Monday morning when the incident occurred.
The BBC reported that Lobo was first treated at the airport before being transported to the hospital for further medical care.
An airport official was quoted by The Hindu newspaper as saying: “She is conscious and well-oriented but has sustained compound (open) fracture of right lower leg bones and multiple blunt injuries.”
Air India said it is investigating the accident and released the following statement on the matter.
The airline said: “In an unfortunate incident, one of our cabin crew, Harsha Lobo, fell down on the tarmac from the Boeing-777 aircraft door while closing it."
This isn’t the first time an airline employee has fallen out of an aircraft.
Last year, a flight attendant from China Eastern Airlines fell out of a Boeing 737-800 and onto the tarmac at Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport in Guangdong, China, suffering several bone fractures and bruises and was immediately rushed to the hospital.
In 2016, Vesna Vulovic – a flight attendant who survived highest ever fall from plane explosion – passed away aged 66.
Vulovic was working as a flight attendant on a Yugoslav Airlines DC-9 plane when a suspected bomb brought the plane down from 33,000ft (10,000m) in Czechoslovakia on 26 January 1972.
All of the other 27 passengers and crew on board died.
According to investigators, Vulovic was trapped by a food cart in the plane’s tail when the bomb exploded.
She plummeted back to earth in the tail in sub-zero temperatures, where she landed on a steep, snow-covered slope near a village, which is believed to have softened her fall.
This story originally appeared on Fox News and was republished with permission.
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