Chicago airport police issue new update after dead woman found entangled in baggage conveyor belt
A woman was found dead and entangled in an airport baggage conveyor belt at in Chicago earlier this week, and police have now revealed she was from North Carolina
A dead woman found entangled in O'Hare baggage machinery was from North Carolina, authorities say.
A woman was found entangled in a baggage conveyor belt at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport was from North Carolina, authorities said today.
The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office identified the woman as 57-year-old Virginia Christine Vinton of Waxhaw, North Carolina. The office's spokesperson, Natalia Derevyanny, said an autopsy was scheduled for Friday.
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Firefighters responding to a 911 call found Vinton's body entangled in the belt around 7.45am on Thursday in a baggage room near a terminal that serves international flights.
According to police, surveillance footage shows Vinton enter the area around 2.27am on Thursday, but it doesn't show what happened to her. The room where Vinton's body was found is off limits to the public, and it's unclear why she was in it, authorities said. A US Department of Labor spokesman said she was not an airport employee. Police declined to comment further on the matter.
O'Hare International Airport, which opened in 1944 near the Rosemont area of Chicago, houses all major airlines including United Airlines, American Airlines as well as Frontier Airlines, and Spirit Airlines, per Fly Chicago. As of August 2024, the airport has about 964 daily direct flights to 171 U.S. cities, per Fly Chicago. It also has approximately 129 daily direct flights to 65 international destinations.
The international hot spots include destinations in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania. In January 2023, a new extension of Terminal 5, which was built in 1993, was unveiled, per O'Hare 21. Construction for the project began in 2019. The major changes were part of a $1.3billion, multi-year investment project to expand and modernize the O'Hare gate.
Last month, a woman died after collapsing on a Virgin Australia flight in front of horrified passengers. The passenger collapsed on the plane at about 9.30am on Monday. Flight crew performed CPR on the woman as the plane was given priority landing at Tullamarine in Victoria, Australia at 10.15am.
Emergency crews were waiting on the tarmac to aid the woman. A Virgin Australia spokesperson told the Mirror at the time: "The passenger was taken off the aircraft but unfortunately later passed away."
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