Posted on 12/08/2013 8:02:15 PM PST by gooblah
Like many before him, Tom Wagner dozed off on his United Express flight on Dec. 6. But when he woke up, everyone else was gone — and the plane was locked.
“I woke up and the lights were out. I was like, what’s going on? I thought maybe it was a layover, still on the same plane,” he told KTRK.
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Was there any booze onboard?
Not any more...
LOL!
THAT is worth a free ticket ANYWHERE.
Horrifying...
On United Express???
Hasn't the guy suffered enough.
When they lock the plane up like that, do the emergency chutes still work?
Somehow, I think that “check for sleeping passengers” should be on the shut-down checklist.
Find one of the battery powered emergency beacons.
They transmit on 121.5mhz and 243mhz... set it off and when the sats report the beacon at the airport someone will investigate...lol
Also, all commercial planes are required to listen on those freqs....it would be very noisy at the airport.
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I see your point. MONEY would be nice.
Being United Express it could’ve been small enough not to have a sky waitress.
I can relate. I was famous for falling asleep on the train on the way home. “Yeah, it’s me. Umm, can you pick me up in Port Jervis?”
Even when American Eagle flew SAAB 340s, they had an FA. This was likely an Embraer Regional Jet (some version of an RJ-145, most likely), so odds are that there was an FA.
Did he still have both kidneys?
When I was flying a great deal I paid close attention to that sort of thing but don’t fly much at all now and have forgotten a lot of it. I do recall that SAAB made a comfortable aircraft, never felt ill at ease on any of theirs, some of the larger SAAB turboprops were even preferable to smaller jets, to me. There’s a goofy-looking, boxy but vaguely aquatic Canadian plane, Bombardier maybe? It was very popular in the Chesapeake Bay area, roomy and stable, liked those. The rest were miserable. I flew into Chattanooga once on one with a recording instead of a flight attendant, and dotted lines painted on the top of the fuselage labeled “in case of emergency cut here.” Really didn’t like that one, lol.
That’s probably it. From a passenger perspective it was one of the more pleasant puddlejumpers. Near-vertical side walls in the cabin, you could actually stand upright in the aisle, little in the way of excess noise, no unsettling movements or fumes. Comfortable even if small. Ungainly looking, though.
Yeah, they are pretty popular in the Caribbean and other tourist areas. A friend of mine once flew aboard an Il-62; according to his description, it was a wholly unpleasant experience (makes those turboprops seem quiet by comparison).
If it was louder than sitting in the rear of a Fokker F-28 I’m sure it was. Hated those things, cramped seating, abrupt movements, noisy with odd clunks and whirrs, eau de jet fuel, high pitched whine the entire time and a slight but noticable fishtailing that caused me to question the basic stability of the design. Tried to avoid them as much as possible but USAir had most of the scheduled flights here and had a bunch of them.
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