‘Loving’ wife, 50, died five years after being crushed between hangar doors at Luton Airport private jet firm
A "LOVING" wife died five years after being crushed between hangar doors at Luton Airport, an inquest heard.
Susan Dorbon, also known as Suzi, was found trapped between two mechanical doors while on a night shift.
The jury inquest at Chicksands in Bedfordshire heard Mrs Dorbon was part of a three-person team moving aircraft for Signature Flight Support.
In August last year she died, aged 50, at a care home in Cambridgeshire.
Her cause of death was traumatic brain injury and cardiac arrest, the court heard.
Mrs Dorbon operated the doors to the hangar while her two colleagues collected the aircraft, jurors head.
Her colleague Stuart Hyde said they had already moved one aircraft into the hangar without a problem.
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Mr Hyde then used a tug to collect a second plane while Mrs Dorbon manoeuvred the doors.
He told the jury: "Suzi said she would move the doors. We went to Harrods to pick up the other aircraft.
"Suzi was to manoeuvre the doors for the second aircraft. We got held up by aircraft control. When we approached the hangar it looked like the doors were in the correct position. Suzi wasn't in sight.
"We slowed down and got out of the aircraft tug. The situation did not feel right.
"I started walking towards the hangar and crossed threshold of the doors. I saw a high-viz jacket. I walked towards it and I realised it was Suzi stuck in the doors.
"She was upright but at an angle but leaning into a cavity."
Mr Hyde said the mechanical doors - which are operated by a pendant and button - had been installed a year earlier and that staff had received an hour-long training session.
But he said there was no safety mechanism to stop two doors moving at the same time.
Ms Dorbon was freed by firefighters and airlifted to Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge where she was put into a coma.
Coroner Dr Sean Cummings said the door operator should have been standing a metre clear of the doors before operating them.
Suzi's husband Mick Dorbon was not at the hearing on Wednesday.
In a statement to the court, he said he and his wife had worked for different companies at the airport and had lived a happy life together.
But he was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and had not worked since the incident.
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Mick had spent all but five days beside his wife's bedside during those five years, jurors heard.
The hearing, which is expected to last three days, continues.
