Usa, porter falls asleep in the hold and the plane takes off ...

An intoxicated American Airlines cargo handler fell asleep on the job and was trapped in the cargo hold, eventually flying from Kansas City to Chicago in the belly of a Boeing 737. The employee, who works for the American subsidiary Piedmont Airlines at Kansas City International Airport, was working on the ramp for American Flight 363 on Saturday, October 27, when it reportedly took a nap inside the cargo hold before the flight. No one noticed his disappearance and the plane took off at 5:52 local time with the worker in the cargo bay. The incident was confirmed by the police. The cargo handler, who was not identified, was not discovered until the plane landed at O'Hare International Airport and parked at the gate just before 7:30 am local time. Investigations are ongoing. Employees have been interviewed by the Chicago Police Department, the FBI and the United States Attorney's Office, which is part of a standard aviation safety policy. He told law enforcement officials that he was drunk and fell asleep, Chicago Police Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. This is not the first time, highlights Giovanni D'Agata, president of the "Rights Window”That an airline cargo attendant got stuck in the cargo hold during a flight. In January 2017, a baggage handler was trapped in the hold on a United Express flight from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Washington Dulles. A recent, high-profile incident occurred in 2015 when an Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle to Los Angeles had to return to the airport after pilots and passengers heard screams and bangs coming from under the plane shortly after. take off. A baggage handler was stuck in the hold. He called 911 and said he was trapped in the plane but the connection was lost. Bill Waldock, a professor of safety sciences at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona, said being trapped in a cargo hold is probably "quite claustrophobic," but overall it's not as risky as it sounds, as the area is pressurized and temperature controlled by bags and packages, and many airlines carry animals in the hold. "Especially if they travel with live animals, they will keep it between 60 and 70 degrees on average," he said. Waldock recalls that more than a dozen publicized accidents of airline workers have been trapped in the cargo hold over the years, usually because someone has fallen asleep. He said baggage handling is tiring work, with long shifts and weight lifting. "They try to take a nap now and then because they're so tired," he said. Waldock said airlines generally have two or three baggage handlers per flight, depending on the size of the plane, as well as a baggage handling supervisor. . The supervisor is in charge of making sure employees are registered after loading bags and other cargo, he said. "But sometimes they slip through the cracks."

Usa, porter falls asleep in the hold and the plane takes off ...

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