I remember being in Guernsey waiting for a lunch time flight up to Alderney with a couple of other local passengers when this guy, an Alderney resident, arrived with a very long ladder that he had bought in the sale. The guys on the desk said 'no way - take it to the harbour'. But the pilot, another Alderney man, said 'might be possible if you all help'
To cut a long story short, I sat in row 2 on the right, another passenger in row 3 on the right, and the other two in rows 8 and 9 on the left. We travelled up to ACI - we in rows 2 and 3 clutching the ladder on our left shoulders, and the other two clutching the other end on their right shoulders. Boy, did we hold it tight, but we got there.