QR crew stuck in a lift for 3 hours
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QR crew stuck in a lift for 3 hours
As reported in the press a QR crew were stuck in a lift at Birmingham airport.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/new...after-28376131
You couldn’t make it up
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/new...after-28376131
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Oh, but you could. As a crew we were stuck in a lift at Aberdeen once. Naturally we pressed the intercom button, and spoke to the person at the other end. After explaining the situation, the reply was "Stay there; don't move". THAT you couldn't make up
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As reported in the press a QR crew were stuck in a lift at Birmingham airport.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/new...after-28376131
You couldn’t make it up
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/new...after-28376131
You couldn’t make it up
QR crew stuck in a lift for 3 hours
Really grott Hotel in Trivandrum. Stuck in the lift with stunning Dutch CA. Staff had to work really hard io get us out. Didn't h elp with both of telling everyone to just go away.
As a flight crew we once got locked into a corridor at Newcastle airport very late one night after a long duty. No agent with us and not our base, so we had no door release cards. Using the wall phone had no effect and we could not call anyone else.
Sod this I said, I need to sleep and I am not going to wait here in this corridor all night. So I broke the glass on the green emergency door release switch.
Not so easy in a lift though.......Poor sods. Although, taking the lift at Birmingham?? It's only 2 storeys high - use the stairs !
Sod this I said, I need to sleep and I am not going to wait here in this corridor all night. So I broke the glass on the green emergency door release switch.
Not so easy in a lift though.......Poor sods. Although, taking the lift at Birmingham?? It's only 2 storeys high - use the stairs !
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I got stuck in the southern end of BN domestic at midnight. This was bak in the days when Ansett occupied that section.
Escorted pax to the empty terminal. Automatic doors opened to let us off the apron.
Went to go back to the aircraft only to find that the doors to the apron would not open.
Funny when you need security they are hard to find.
An hour or so later I got back to the aircraft.
Escorted pax to the empty terminal. Automatic doors opened to let us off the apron.
Went to go back to the aircraft only to find that the doors to the apron would not open.
Funny when you need security they are hard to find.
An hour or so later I got back to the aircraft.
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The temporary lifts are a bit weird, and do not feel particularly temporary. Almost a normal lift built onto scaffolding.
Felt a little rickety.
Bet they use the stairs next time...
Felt a little rickety.
Bet they use the stairs next time...
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Schiphol (AMS) had a temporary lift to one of the upper levels of the airport for some months a few years ago. It took you via a temporary path along the roof around some construction (maybe around the time they were converting from at-gate to central security, and therefore building a lot of new passages on top of existing walkways).
I'm sure it was a fully functional and safe device, and it did seem to work well, but it was definitely incongruous walking along a temporary passageway along part of the roof, made of scaffolding and plastic sheeting, to what looked like a perfectly normal lift with all the usual sort of buttons just stuck in the middle of the scaffolding works.
I'm sure it was a fully functional and safe device, and it did seem to work well, but it was definitely incongruous walking along a temporary passageway along part of the roof, made of scaffolding and plastic sheeting, to what looked like a perfectly normal lift with all the usual sort of buttons just stuck in the middle of the scaffolding works.
