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http://www.king5.com/sharedcontent/VideoPlayer/videoPlayer.php?vidId=44506&catId=231
Passenger Jeremy Hermanns describes what happened
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No duct tape?
How was that again - we'll save money with non-union contract labor?
¿ahorraremos el dinero con el trabajo de contrato no sindical?
Holy cow, luckly, no one was injured.
What was the ramp worker's name? What company did he work for that was being contracted to load baggage?
While we have what I consider an over abundance of security at the front door to an airport, I have always been concerned about what is done to guard the back doors??????
Dishonest ground crew ping.
feh, they didnt follow procedures. one ramper stands by the pit door and guides the belt loader in to a stop, the other drives it. They get hit often but you have to smack it hard to dent it like that.
Company rampers weren't much better but they had more to lose if they screwed up. Plus the Union would protect them.
That's impossible.
I was in Vegas playing blackjack at the Golden Nugget all weekend.
TSA Screener movin' up?
It didn't matter what type of bump... even if you just brushed it with any object.
I can see that if this is also the case with this company, the ramp ape didn't want to lose his job.
The unfortunate thing is; The hiring of unqualified personell. Sure anyone can stack bags inside a belly, drive a tug and push carts. But it takes a special person to understand aircraft and have a passion for for it. It isn't just a job, but a serious responsibility.
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About 2 years ago at SeaTac I watched a rookie run into a tugger with one of the baggage conveyers. He did some damage to the tugger, a baggage cart, and to the conveyer. He got off, looked around, and then quickly walked away. I'm sure he probably filled out an incident report.
At least it was the plane that landed safely, and not the hole. The AP version of this story begins with the sentence: "A foot-long hole in the fuselage of an Alaska Airlines jet en route from Seattle to Burbank, Calif., was forced to make an emergency landing Wednesday."
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Emergency-Landing.html
My daughter flew out on Alaska yesterday- thank heaven this was not her flight. Sheesh, what a nitwit of a worker....
Ground crew ping!
I think that baggage cart driver should lose his job over this. No excuses.
Amateurs. I work our Washington Dulles operation where three different languages are spoken at all times on the ramp. In the run-up to Christmas, we had a belt loader put a nice dent near the aft cargo door on one of our planes resulting in a maintenece ferry to the manufacturer. Next, one of the fuelers tried driving under the right wing and took out the entire leading edge. Another carrier who operates the same contract that we do in Dulles, had an aircraft taken out of service for ramp damage in November that wont be back in service until Jan. Im against unions, but when mainline UAL, USAIRWAYS, and AA ground crews worked our flights, we never had the problems that we do now. Outsourcing airport work to foreigners who dont speak english is a recipe for disaster and a boon for our aircraft sheet metal contractors..