Originally Posted by
ATC Watcher
Quite common in Africa ( and in most of the world until the 1980s,) to releive the security guards at the perimeter duting night shifts using a vehicle or some kind .and crossing the runway to get there was never considered an issue . You have bad luck sometimes., such as poor vsibility, did not see the landing lights , wearing headphones , etc.. .TIA .
I find it hard to imagine that you wouldn’t hear or at least see an A320 on a runway. I suppose with earplugs, those Neo engines would be a lot quieter, but with the LED lights on, it’d be like daylight as the plane approached.