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Old 19th Apr 2011, 03:33
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glhcarl
 
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As I have already commented in a previous post, 99% of the people on this forum have absolutely no experience of taxiing a wide-body aircraft around JFK at night (or even by day for that matter).
Add me to that 99%. However, I am undoubtly in the minority because I have driven around the access road at JFK. I spent the summer of 1988 as an on-site rep for an OEM and would have to drive the different terminals. It was scary with airplanes, trucks, tugs, baggage loaders, etc all moving in different directions, I am suprized there are not more incidnts. Every time I started to go from terminal 1 to terminal 5 I remembered those soothing words of the man I replaced, "don't worry the car and everyone in it is insured for a million dollars"!
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