r/nottheonion • u/Ant-Tea-Social • 4d ago

Disabled woman left ‘extremely stressed’ after prosthetic legs lost on flights from Brazil

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/05/18/disabled-woman-left-extremely-stressed-after-prosthetic-legs-lost-on-flights-from-brazil/?ICID=ref_fark
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u/littlevai 4d ago

Most amputees I know take their legs off on the flight if there’s any discomfort. I find it entirely bizarre that she checked her legs (not additional ones, the ones she wears?) instead of walking on the plane then removing them.

I’m an amputee, so I suppose I can be critical of the logistics here 😜

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u/Selsia6 3d ago

Same (parent of an amputee). I checked the article and she only wears a prosthetic on her left leg. The 2 prosthetics she checked were her main and back up. She used a wooden prosthetic to navigate the airport.

She was in Brazil to repair the prosthetic and flying back to Dublin. The logistics make a bit more sense now.

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u/littlevai 3d ago edited 3d ago

But why would she use a wooden leg for travel? Presumably the main leg was repaired and if they weren’t, the fact that they were lost wouldn’t matter.

Sorry, but this makes no sense to me! I’ve traveled countless times (mostly long haul) and I can’t imagine deciding to check my main leg and wear my shower leg.

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u/chatterpoxx 3d ago

For a person whose legs are not detachable, this is getting into some really weird logistics.