Easyjet has been ordered to pay compensation to a disabled man who broke both legs after falling out of a wheelchair at an airport.
The Court of Session in Edinburgh ruled the airline should pay damages to paraplegic Colin Mather, 56, who was flung from a wheelchair after travelling from Edinburgh to Hamburg Airport in 2017.
The court heard Mather was helped from the aircraft by “assistance personnel” from DRK, the German Red Cross’s Mediservice based at the airport.
In a written judgment judge Lord Uist, said the wheelchair stopped “very abruptly”.
He also wrote that Mather sustained “compound fractures” to both legs below his knees.
The amount of compensation is yet to be decided.
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