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Woman who plunged 50 feet to death at Indianapolis airport called operators before suicide

New York Post·Ronny Reyes·6 months ago
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The woman who plunged to her death after jumping from a terminal deck at the Indianapolis International called operators moments before her suicide, officials said.

The airport’s operations center got a call from Ashley Michelle Kidd, 38, on Saturday afternoon and tried to keep her on the phone while desperately trying to find her.

The operators, however, were not able to calm the woman down as police raced to her on an upper terminal deck.

A woman fell to her death at the Indianapolis International Airport. USA TODAY Sports

“During the call, the woman became despondent and began to travel away from the location and across the four lanes of vehicle traffic on the upper level of the terminal drive,” airport officials said in a statement.

“There she climbed the retaining wall and fell [50-feet] to the grassy area below.”

Airport public safety personnel arrived at the scene moments later and tried to apply life-saving first aid to the woman, but she did not survive , officials added.

“Our officers and…

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