Alaska Airlines departs Sea-Tac with one extra on board

This sort of thing must not happen very often, right?

Airport worker gets trapped inside Alaska 737's cargo hold after takeoff | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | KOMO News

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Bit weird since says "the pilot reported hearing banging from someone underneath the plane" and then later says "When asked if passengers could hear the worker clamoring for help, Collins said: "Nobody on the plane heard anything like that.."

I can't see how pilot says heard but passengers didn't? unless was banging on hatch in floor near cockpit door?

Another article mentioned was trapped in the forward cargo hold and was pressurised so maybe so?

 

I just wonder why he didn't start his attempts to alert the crew before the airplane had taken off. You would think if he had been paying attention and known he was sealed inside the aircraft he'd have been able to get someone's attention even before push-back.

Napping on the job maybe?

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He was an employee of ”Menzies Aviation”.... Maybe it was that time of the month?

 

He admitted that he was taking a nap. It's exhausting when you are trying to lose all those bags. And all those bags piled up in front of you makes it hard to hear them close the cargo door. Good old Menzies.

 

Someone alert the TSA -- talk about a possible terrorist method.

 

Taking a nap in a place where aircraft turn-around is high. This stuff just boggles the mind. Real stupidity out there in aviation.

 

It's OK. The union will have him back working in no time.

Just like a government worker, no down side to being a first class screw up.

 

Menzies doesn't have a great reputation. He might have been adding a quick gang tag, and didn't get out before the door closed.

 

He just found out is pay of $15.05/hr is now barely above min wage

 

Rampers take breaks/nap in the cargo holds all the time. It was only a matter of time before this happened. I would have paid to have been there right when he woke up.

 

Bingo!

 

- In 2011, a US Airways bag handler was accidentally locked inside the cargo hold of a plane at Reagan National Airport. A passenger heard the man banging on the underside of the floor and alerted a flight attendant.

- In 2009, a bag handler for JetBlue flew from New York to Boston in the cargo hold. The 21-year-old said he fell asleep and panicked when he realized the plane was in flight. He used his cellphone to call the airline during the flight.

- In 2005, a bag handler at LaGuardia Airport in New York fell asleep in the belly of a Spirit Airlines plane and woke up in Detroit.

 

It gets better - he thought he was going to die.

Apparently he's never loaded or unloaded any LIVE ANIMALS from the cargo hold.

And yeah - back on the job.

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Well there is a good reason he is a baggage smasher.

Sure don't want that guy on my survival team.

 

As long as we are on the subject of baggage "smashers", I just HAVE to post this up:

Turn it up.

United Breaks Guitars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo

 

Menzies is also non-union and pays minimum wage.
You get what you pay for.
Just sayin'

Alaska has also stated that this person is forbidden to work on any of their airplanes, ever.

 

On the squak sheet, the pilots wrote, "Sound coming from cargo like a midget with a hammer." On the corrective action, Maintenance wrote, "Removed hammer from midget."
Its an oldie but goodie.

What do they expect. $15/ hr to sling bags in boiling heat during the summer and bone chilling cold in the winter.....no thanks. They are luck to get bodies that can pass a drug test.