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.
Trial run perhaps?
He “bangs for aid.” So it was Laz stuck in the hold!
He Tard.
now he knows how the dogs feel!
He was checking his eyelids for cracks..............
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.
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 .
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.
How do you fall asleep inside a cargo hold? That should be a busy place with others going in and out. Someone should have noticed. It is a wonder more planes don’t crash when you can misplace a worker in a cargo hold!