Heard a story about a B707 freighter steward when I was with Big Airways back then, they ended up in Aus somewhere, the A/C disappeared onto its next sector. A little later the crew, Capt, F/O & F/E were called to position to pick up another A/C, the steward left it a couple of days and then called company, yes its all in hand he was told, nothing happened, everything was being paid as was he, also he quite liked Aus, so after a couple of weeks he got himself a part time job in a pub and enjoyed himself for more than 6 months, until a wandering crew found him and he had to return to LHR, they just forgot about him, great story the way he told it, true?
As for how many are allowed on a 747, it has nothing to do with escape doors, but the inertia reels, on recent 747s I have operated there were 22 inertia reels!
