Napping worker in cargo hold bangs for aid as flight departs

apnews.myway.com ^ | April 14, 2015

[PROCON]

SEATTLE (AP) — The airport worker's shift started early, at 5 a.m., and ended with an unfortunate nap in the cargo hold of a departing Alaska Airlines flight bound for Los Angeles.

When he realized what was happening, his banging for help could be heard by both the pilots and first-class passengers aboard Flight 448.

The plane had just taken off Monday afternoon when the pounding noise from down below started, the airline said. The captain immediately returned to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and declared an emergency for priority landing. The plane was airborne for 14 minutes.

[PROCON]

Oooops, I wonder if his Union will say he was just taking a rest break?

[MrB]

I THOUGHT this had to be the situation.
The radio stories aren’t saying anything about “napping”,
but that’s the only way he’d not notice he was trapped in the cargo hold until takeoff.

[Paradox]

Trial run perhaps?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

He “bangs for aid.” So it was Laz stuck in the hold!

[Larry Lucido]

You think he’d have learned the first time.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3278881/posts

[TexasCajun]

He Tard.

[PGR88]

now he knows how the dogs feel!

[Lazamataz]

He “bangs for aid.” So it was Laz stuck in the hold!

In the 1980's, I organized BangAid, which was meant to help starvation in countries in Africa.

[PROCON]

Thanks for the info...

[Larry Lucido]

Already posted:

[Red Badger]

He was checking his eyelids for cracks..............

[Red Badger]

No he’s Bangs for Fun!...............

[Red Badger]

Brian? Izzat you?.................

[PROCON]

:-)

[mosesdapoet]

Flight crews fault. Plane is supposed to be inspected before takeoff that incluides the cargo bay. That’s not happening like the kid in nose wheel well.

[Lazamataz]

I’m too sexy to be Brian.

[varyouga]

“In the 1980’s, I organized BangAid, which was meant to help starvation in countries in Africa”

Sounds like a name for Clinton Foundation project

[kaila]

This whole story sounds fishy. Who sleeps on a plane that you just loaded baggage on, and is going to take off shortly?
Or, you seize the moment to rifle through baggage and leave the plane at the last moment.
However, the timing was off.
If I was Alaska Airlines, I would look into complaints of theft on flights that this baggage handler was assigned to .

[EQAndyBuzz]

“In the 1980’s, I organized BangAid, which was meant to help starvation in countries in Africa. “

Starvation...cough cough..Ok, if you say so.

[Conan the Librarian]

My wife use to take naps in the air intake of F-4s when she was an NDI ‘airman’. They could do anything to the jet until she signed off on it, and, she is small enough to fit.

My brother-in-law was better, he’d nap behind the refrigerator he was working on, in chicken coops he was working on...in fact just about any thing he was working on, he’d nap in on or around.

Now he is retired and he isn’t so bad off.