They might just fall off!
A JFK shuttle train that had just undergone preventive maintenance lost two doors just before picking up its first passengers yesterday, sources said.
As the AirTrain pulled into the Lefferts Boulevard stop at 3:30 a.m., the two doors swung off their hinges. One careened onto the tracks and the other jammed into the platform.
“This is very troubling,” said an airport source. “[Had] it happened when the train was crowded, people would have fallen out — and they’d now be dead.”
No one was aboard the computerized two-car shuttle — which carries no conductor or motorman.
One of the broken doors, affixed to the outside of the cars, became “embedded into the concrete platform like a knife into a birthday cake,” said a source.
An alarm sounded, but the train — minus the two doors — barreled on to the Howard Beach station, sources said.