A North Carolina woman died after becoming “entangled” in a baggage claim conveyor belt at Chicago O’Hare International Airport on Thursday morning, authorities said.
Airport surveillance cameras captured the woman entering a staff-only area of Terminal 5 at around 2:30 a.m. Found He was found unresponsive around 7:30 a.m., NBC Chicago reported.
Chicago Fire Department officials later said the woman had become “entangled” in the conveyor belt at baggage claim and was pronounced dead at the scene.
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The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled her a suicide, and the official cause of death was determined to be asphyxiation due to hanging.
The woman was identified Friday as 57-year-old Virginia Christine Vinton, of Waxhaw, North Carolina.
A Department of Labor spokesman confirmed that Vinton was not an airport employee.
It is unclear how she managed to gain access to restricted areas within the terminal.
