Thursday, December 13, 2007

Excess Baggage

A two-year-old girl who wandered off in an airport suffered cuts and bruises after she was whisked into a baggage conveyor belt system.

The toddler walked through an empty check-in desk at Manchester Airport and hopped on to the luggage machine. She was then swept down the four-mile long tunnel of the conveyor system and trapped before being rescued by an engineer.

The girl went missing at about 6:45 p.m. last Thursday, as her parents joined the line for a flight to Islamabad in Terminal 2. The couple raised the alarm when they could not find her.

Shortly after the alert, an engineer found the child as he investigated a stoppage in the conveyor system.

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