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Woman Arrested After Running Onto Phoenix Tarmac to Stop Flight She Missed
Complex ^ | 12/29/2021 | Joshua Espinoza

Posted on 01/01/2022 3:39:15 PM PST by simpson96

A Missouri woman was arrested this week after she rushed onto a tarmac in an attempt to stop a departing plane.

According to FOX 6, the incident took place at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on Sunday, after 53-year-old Vickie Meyers had missed her flight. Authorities say the woman initially tried to open the closed gate by entering numbers of the keypad, but eventually opened emergency doors and began making her way down a flight of stairs toward the nose of the plane. Airport staffers “immediately made contact” with Meyers and then called police for assistance.

Officers say the woman, who appeared to be intoxicated, admitted she tried to stop the plane “so she would not miss her flight.”

Cellphone footage of the bizarre moment was posted on social media, showing law enforcement confronting Meyers before placing her in handcuffs. She was ultimately charged with first degree criminal trespassing on a crucial public service facility—a felony in Arizona.

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To: wny

Oh, you’re right I think. On second read, it looks as if she never went anywhere near the tarmac, just went down the ramp without authirization. The headline needs to be rewritten...then again, the story is totally uninteresting if she never in fact made it to the tarmac...there goes another few minutes of OGINJ’s life he won’t get back....


21 posted on 01/01/2022 4:09:21 PM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: V_TWIN
Apparently she’s not familiar with the physics and damage associated with being sucked into a turbine aircraft engine......it rarely works out well.

As long as she wasn't wearing a cape.


22 posted on 01/01/2022 4:09:44 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: simpson96

First of all, we do not use Tarmac in the US, it is not as durable as asphalt. It also has a rougher surface. If you want Tarmac go to England...and quit calling airfield aprons Tarmac, you sound like an idiot. -DR


23 posted on 01/01/2022 4:12:26 PM PST by D Rider ( )
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24 posted on 01/01/2022 4:16:30 PM PST by Flick Lives
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To: simpson96

You are not supposed to say, but it sounds like a woman of a certain ethnicity.


25 posted on 01/01/2022 4:26:13 PM PST by xxqqzz
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To: simpson96

Looks like she put her mascara on upside down.


26 posted on 01/01/2022 4:35:58 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (81 million votes...and NOT ONE "Build Back Better" hat)
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To: wny

What did you call a hoagie or a grinder at JFK?


27 posted on 01/01/2022 4:37:22 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (81 million votes...and NOT ONE "Build Back Better" hat)
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To: dfwgator
...or get absorbed in your paperwork...


28 posted on 01/01/2022 4:43:23 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (81 million votes...and NOT ONE "Build Back Better" hat)
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To: simpson96

“Room for one more, honey.”

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E53TwentyTwo


29 posted on 01/01/2022 4:49:40 PM PST by Seeing More Clearly Now ( )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

They’re called “Heroes” everywhere in NYC / Long Island area….

“The ramp” referred to everything flat and paved but the runways and taxiways….


30 posted on 01/01/2022 4:50:03 PM PST by wny ( )
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To: dfwgator

“Officers say the woman, who appeared to be intoxicated, admitted she tried to stop the plane “so she would not miss her flight.”

Ah ha! So she was hanging out in the airport bar and missed her flight and didn’t mind inconveniencing everyone else.......who hasn’t been there?


31 posted on 01/01/2022 4:53:28 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: wny

…although that was in the 80s, maybe they call them “subs” now….


32 posted on 01/01/2022 4:55:17 PM PST by wny ( )
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To: wny

Kind of like the Brits that walk on the ‘pavement’, or use a ‘rubber’ to erase mistakes.. :P


33 posted on 01/01/2022 4:59:35 PM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: simpson96

People are starting to display behavior that would indicate to me that they spent too much time during the ‘RATs’ dempanic sitting on the couch, eating bon bons and watching the crap on the boob tube hour after hour, day after day.


34 posted on 01/01/2022 5:04:39 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: simpson96

A drunk ding from Missouri running around the tarmac attempting to stop airliners. Why not?


35 posted on 01/01/2022 5:18:33 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: simpson96

It’s okay. She’s a limo driver.


36 posted on 01/01/2022 5:23:46 PM PST by dixie1202
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To: V_TWIN
Ah ha! So she was hanging out in the airport bar and missed her flight and didn’t mind inconveniencing everyone else.......who hasn’t been there?
Uh... me.

1980s. I stepped off a layover flight at LaPaz, Bolivia, elevation 12K+, had a beer and a smoke at the airport bar. A few, or more, actually, hazy moments later, several Bolivian soldiers came at me screaming. First time in South America ... wow, am I Che? They beckoned me to follow, right out to the -- yes, ramp -- where the plane was readying to take off. Two of them were pushing the rolling stairs, two others guided me towards the plane, and two other soldiers stood in front of the plane waiving rifles in the air to stop it.

I rather sheepishly crawled up the stairs and apologized to the flight crew for missing the last call for re-boarding. They sat me down and put another drink on my table.
37 posted on 01/01/2022 5:26:21 PM PST by nicollo
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To: nascarnation

Yeah, like “jab”.


38 posted on 01/01/2022 5:36:22 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: nicollo

Great bar story. Lol!


39 posted on 01/01/2022 5:40:08 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: simpson96

but was she wearing a mask? /sarc


40 posted on 01/01/2022 5:42:31 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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