Airline Loses Athlete’s Leg
August 29 2006 07:30 am
A woman from New Zealand traveling to compete in the world athletic championships for the disabled got a pretty miserable surprise when she landed in Amsterdam for the event: British Airways had lost her prosthetic leg. As you can imagine, this is a problem if you are a one-legged runner heading to a running competition. For its part, BA was extremely helpful, telling the woman that her bag is "one of 20,000" sitting in Heathrow. The leg’s manufacturer is trying to make her a new limb before the competition begins.
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