That’ll learn him to eat the other baggage handler’s leftovers in the breakroom.
In the mid-80’s a co-worker intentionally locked me into the baggage compartment of a Convair while I was loading baggage, this happened in Bethel Alaska, temperature was flat out cold, minus temperatures. Flight was Bethel/Anchorage
I was a new employee so it was a hazing of sorts done maliciously, and when I was let out after 20 minutes trapped in the dark with engines warming up I was angry but hid it so as not to let anybody have the satisfaction of seeing me both pissed and frightened.
I found out several weeks later or rather figured out who it was, and I’ll state for the record, it was an Athabascan Indian from Holy Cross. He absolutely hated whites (and Eskimoes)
25 years later one of our sons graduated from an Alaskan state home school program and our teacher came down for his graduation ceremony, she had spent time on the Yukon and Kuskokwim Rivers I found out so I asked her if she knew of this man.
She did indeed much to my surprise, and knew his family in fact. He had been abused at a boys school or something to that affect hence his hatred. Before he died he did an about change and his heart softened. Made it easier to forgive him, my only choice at the time.
Years went by and because of incidents similar to this I stopped being such a nice guy about situations like this and decided if “good guys” didn’t stand up to “bad guys” and teach them the fear of God then assholes would continue to oppress good guys. Anyway, that’s what happened.
Looks like a couple of different people with different duties dropped the ball on this one, and did not perform due diligence. The airline should learn from this experience that if a wandering worker could accidently stow away, a weaponized terrorist could do it too.
