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fox niner
11th Aug 2007, 12:57
According to this article the cargo door of a 737 operated by Blue Air (flight from Rome to Bucharest) was left open with a dog in the cargo bay. (not a stray dog, it was travelling as cargo)
The 737 started taxiing WITH ITS CARGO DOOR STILL OPENED, the dog escapes, and its owner, who was looking through the window from the cabin, sees his own dog run away from the plane!
Eventually he is caught and all is well...
--How is it possible that a 737 departs with its cargo hold still opened???
bomarc
11th Aug 2007, 13:02
bad warning system, inattentive ground crew, pilots ignoring warning
very lucky they didn't takeoff in that configuration...it was probably the forward cargo area.
Surely a dog wouldn't just be stuck in the cargo bay, and left to have a free run of the place.
Wouldn't it have to be put in an approved travel crate?
pwalhx
11th Aug 2007, 16:06
Exactly 419, the dog would have to be in an approved carrier, so are we to believe the dog escaped from both the carrier and the aircraft seems somewhat unlikely.
Maybe, just maybe, It's...
HoudiniDog.
http://www.houdinillewellins.com/images/homepage_hlsign.jpg
Final 3 Greens
12th Aug 2007, 09:59
Surely a dog wouldn't just be stuck in the cargo bay
No! But you can hardly the pax that its the first officer - whose job is to bite the touches anything :E
llondel
12th Aug 2007, 16:25
Surely a dog wouldn't just be stuck in the cargo bay, and left to have a free run of the place. Wouldn't it have to be put in an approved travel crate?
Having run the article through Babelfish, it implies the dog was in some sort of box closed with sticky tape because the owner expected to be able to have it in the cabin. As the airline rules said it had to go in the hold, said box ended up there and the dog escaped.
Babelfish:
According to one first reconstruction, initially the dog had been put in a not consistent cage, whose closing was entrusted to the adhesive tape, for being carried like baggage by hand. But inasmuch as the company does not admit animals to edge, the volpino it had been subsequently transferred in the space baggages.