ISTANBUL, TURKEY — A Turkish man is lucky to still be alive after he was swallowed up whole by a hungry subway station escalator.<br /><br />The insane incident was captured on video at the Ayazaga Metro station in Istanbul on Feb. 27 at 5:30 p.m., according to the Mirror.<br /><br />The footage starts with busy commuters walking down an escalator that was not moving.<br /><br />But when Mehmet Ali Erik stepped on, the escalator suddenly came to life and started moving, that's when a section collapsed, opening up a large hole. <br /><br />Erik fell in the gap and can be seen disappearing from the CCTV view. <br />The man was reportedly trapped under there for an hour, before firefighters were able to rescue him and transport him to the hospital for unspecified injuries. <br /><br />According to local news, the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality had put a warning sign by the broken escalator.
