Jetstar plane starts taxiing to runway with ground worker attached

[RodH]

This is almost funny

Was flying as an F/O some years ago and was told a story by an old great Captain. He was about to fly a DC6B of Ansett-ANA from Lae in New Guinea when they had a lot of trouble starting the last engine of the DC6B ( as happened a lot). After getting it started he looked out of his window and saw the ground engineer holding up a signal and thinking it was the all clear, started to taxi and promptly ran over the battery cart thus wrecking the prop and severely damaging the engine.
Turned out that the engineer was simply holding up a " minty " lolly . There was an advert at the time that showed " at times like this you need a minty " and that's what the engineer was showing him , a Minty NOT the all clear signal. Very red faces all around !!