Introduction:
Aspiration of a foreign body is commonly reported among children. Although considered the gold standardfor extraction of airway foreign bodies,rigid bronchoscopyfails in up to7% 1,2of cases. Although there are reports of successful use of flexible bronchoscope for airway foreign body removal it has many limitations. We describe an adolescent patientwherein a distally placed airway foreign body after the failure of removal with rigid bronchoscope twice could be removed successfully using flexible-through-rigid bronchoscopy technique. We discuss the advantages of this technique over either of the scopes used alone.