World Tallest Woman Flies to America
- Rumeysa Gelgi is the World’s Tallest Woman
- The world’s tallest woman is a Turkish Citizen and lives in Karabuk Turkey
- Turkish airline made Gelgi’s trip to USA possible
- The Turkish national carrier converted six plane seats to stretcher
- Gelgi is 8 feet 2.8 inches tall. And just 25 years old
According to Rumeysa Gelgi, World Record Holder,
“This will be my first flight as well as my first travel overseas. But I believe that this experience will be a first for many individuals, not just me. Because as you know, the option of traveling as a stretcher passenger is generally reserved for patients who are being transferred from one intensive care unit to another.”
“It is an alternative for patients who are referred from one hospital to another and need an ambulance. However, because I couldn’t sit for lengthy periods of time due to my scoliosis, or spine curvature disorder, I had to fly on a stretcher,”
Anadolu Agency, A local news outlet reported that, the airline initiated several seating adjustments to enable Rumeysa Gelgi board their flight and this is for the first time in her life.
Expectedly, everybody on board was excited as well including kids and crews of the USA bound flight.
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Gelgi travels by stretcher due to Weaver syndrome, a genetic disorder characterized by rapid growth.
The record holder reportedly ditches her wheelchair sometimes to make some short distance walks which aids her health condition.
The 25-year-old software developer travels to America to collaborate with Guinness for an event and to help develop her professional career. Accompanied by her mother, the young woman boarded the flight with her wheelchair before laying on the stretcher inside the plane for a 13-hour flight to San Francisco.
