Chasing Pax

[VFE]

Hi folks,

Have you as Captain or First Officer with an airline ever left the flight deck whilst parked at the gate before departure to go in search of a wayward passenger? Reason I ask is because some time ago on one of those TV airport documentaries they showed a Lufthansa A320 Captain leave the FD in search of a late pax...

Have you ever done this?

VFE.

[con-pilot]

Only if she was very, very good looking!

[bafanguy]

If I had to leave the cockpit on the ground (never in flight) because of a passenger, it was to eject them from the airplane. By the time the story got to me through the gate agent or F/A...the story was already told.

The only time I didn't throw them off, I regretted it later.

[BOAC]

VFE - maybe it was his wife/mistress/boyfriend - delete as applicable:D