Plane passenger, 32, plunges 50ft to her death after falling from boarding bridge ‘while arguing on phone’
A WOMAN died after plunging 50ft from a plane’s boarding bridge in front of horrified passengers.
Businesswoman Beyza Taskiran, 32, was reportedly having a heated argument with someone on the phone when she fell at Adnan Menderes Airport in Turkey.
Beyza, a marketing manager at an IT company in Antalya, plummeted to her death while boarding a plane back to the city at 10pm on Monday.
She was said to be on her way home after attending a tourism fair in Izmir.
Beyza tragically died at the scene despite the efforts of the emergency services.
According to reports, she was talking on the phone just before she fell.
She was said to be having a heated conversation.
Eyewitnesses claimed she then jumped through a gap between the boarding bridge and the aircraft before hitting the ground, Sabah reports.
Turkish authorities have launched an investigation into her death.
Cops are analysing Beyza’s phone records to find out who she was speaking to on the phone.
They said they will take a statement from the mystery caller.
Police are understood to not be treating her death as suspicious.