View Full Version : Easyjet Nice - "drunk" tries to board plane
jabird
26th Apr 2005, 11:07
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/18174870
Does anyone know more about this? The problem seems more to do with NCE than EZ, but if the gate is closed, isn't that the end of the matter?
Farrell
26th Apr 2005, 12:55
"Drunk tries to stop easyJet on runway"
....don't you just love journos!!
lomapaseo
26th Apr 2005, 13:49
I believe there is liitle that can be done to stop a determined unarmed passenger from exiting the terminal via an alarmed emergeny door and running out on the apron to save their life from fire or greet a plane.
It seems to me that the practical controls worked. i.e. he was denied boarding.
jay_hl
26th Apr 2005, 15:30
"Drunk tries to stop easyJet on runway"
How is this possible?
"I thought maybe they were going to let him on, but he just stood there while the engines started up It was so dangerous."
How can the drunken passenger make his way to the runway and also how can the aircraft make its way to the active runway without engine power.
Few Cloudy
26th Apr 2005, 16:20
Maybe it is time for a translation of populist aviatics into our language:
Runway: means anywhere airside.
Landing Lights: means any lights on an aeroplane or even an airplane
Giant: means big enough to carry passengers
Dangerous: means any unusual situation
Overshoot: means run off the end of the runway
Air pocket: means turbulence
Victim: means an inconvenienced person (who might score a freebie)
Emergency: see Dangerous
Fire: means smoke
Engine fire: means torching
The Pilot: means the Captain
The Cabin: means the Cockpit
Counselling: means lawyers
...and so on. We will never beat them, so we had better learn the language.
sammypilot
26th Apr 2005, 16:26
Lomapaseo refers to there being no way to stop a determined, unarmed person getting through fire doors. Doesn't give us much of a sporting chance with somebody who is both determined and ARMED!
Few Cloudy - classic! Thank you - I enjoyed it. Worth framing that:D
Jerricho
26th Apr 2005, 19:34
Can I add one Few Cloudy, if you don't mind :
Seconds (as in "seconds from disaster") - an indeterminate period of time where the "dangerous" situation is noticed
ou Trek dronkie
26th Apr 2005, 22:11
Few Cloudy,
Spot on.
oTd.
:ok: :ok: :ok:
PAXboy
26th Apr 2005, 23:42
Perhaps add?
Shrieking What is assumed to happen when there is an Emergency. Whereas people usually go very quiet to try and learn something. :p
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Beausoleil
27th Apr 2005, 08:53
Can non-pilots play?
Terror - a state of some anxiety occurring among passengers when something out of the ordinary seems to have happened.
Lucky escape - leaving the aeroplane as usual after a flight in which something out of the ordinary happened.
simonjwt
27th Apr 2005, 11:54
"Hell" - an inconvenience, esp. when related to safety
cwatters
27th Apr 2005, 17:23
Nice one cloudy. Some more...
Panic - The baggage was more than 5 mins getting to reclaim.
Communications failure - pax couldn't get a dial tone.
Fuel Emergency - No peanuts left in the galley.
Nearly died - Man with beard seen using forward WC.
ExSimGuy
29th Apr 2005, 19:23
but he just stood there while the engines started up. It was so dangerous
(is there such a thing as a "drunk strike"?)
Few Cloudy
30th Apr 2005, 16:27
Thanks boys,
There is no copyright on these terms - the more the merrier.
FC.
Onan the Clumsy
2nd May 2005, 01:46
Greedy Airline Management = Airline management who are greedy
Monty77
8th May 2005, 17:40
Codes are great:
from the mil forum
SNAFU: Situation Normal: Another F*ck Up
DTF : Ditch The F*ckwit (wrong pub, wrong time)
TFD : Too F*cking Difficult
TFE : opposite
KIPS : Kunt In (a) Pilot Suit (management favourite)
WIWOB : When I Was On Boeings
WIWOT : When I Was On Turboprops
There's bags more, bring it on gents,
love from
OBBI