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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I hear reporters refer to the “tarmac” far more often than I do real aviation professionals (of which I am one). Most in the industry talk about the “ramp” or “ramp area”, meaning the area between the terminal gates and the taxiways at a commercial airport, or the area between the FBOs, hangars, etc. and the taxiways at a GA airport. At a commercial airport, this is also usually part of the “movement area” in which the aircraft needs clearance from ATC Ground to taxi.
But then, due to clueless reporters most of the non-aviation world thinks that everything an aircraft does happens on the “runway.” How often do we hear that passengers had to wait three hours “on the runway” for a flight delay? Um, no. Aircraft take off and land on runways, but that’s all they do there.
Die hard lady ....
Intoxicated? Better she is outside the plane trying to het in than inside the plane trying to get out at 30000 feet
“...or use a ‘rubber’ to erase mistakes.. :P “
Right. Everyone knows a ‘rubber’ is to PREVENT mistakes.
Sorry.
...take another shot of courage...good advice for 53 year old woman.
I know the feeling. I lived in England for a while years ago. Whoever said that Yanks and Brits were “two peoples separated by a common tongue” was right.
When my Australian wife and I were stationed at Mannheim, we were at the PX one day. I needed to get some erasers for my mechanical pencil, but I couldn't find the stationary department. My wife wandered off to the front of the store and asked a lady working the register where the "rubbers" were. That was bad enough until she yelled across the store, "Oh, love, the rubbers are up here by the checkout!"
Yipes. Guilty
Lol!
Now that’s funny.
My understanding of the British expression “Knock me up tomorrow night”, by a young lass, does’t mean the same thing in the USA!
Shes not an outlier when it comes to crazy self entitled bitches over running this country these days. Perhaps telling young boys to to never hit a woman was a bad move.
Great story.
Was it at least the correct flight? Or did you end up being flown to some other destination entirely?
Regards,
Haha, but that wasn’t a problem. It was 2 am in 1980s Bolivia... Back then the terminals at many South American airports had one door. That entire flight, btw, was 24 hrs w/ 6 stops. It was the Eastern Airlines Miami-Panama-Columbia-Ecuador-Peru-Bolivia-Paraguay run. That flight was like being on a Columbian bus.
Speaking of... when American Airlines bought Eastern’s assets, they found stashes of cocaine left hidden on the planes.
She found out she isn’t on the do you know who I am list.
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