cavortingcheetah
5th Jan 2007, 11:01
:hmm:
A strange rumour with far more truth in it than one might like to hear has come down the jungle drums.
On New Year's day a certain airline had a scheduled departure from Switzerland to South Africa. The scheduled departure time was, so one hears, 22.30LMT.
A group of seven family members checked in their ton of baggage and six of them went through security.
Subsequently those six members of the family boarded the aircraft. The seventh, arriving late, from the land side bar at security, was held at security for being drunk. This he was, totally. The matter was reported to the Captain who, quite rightly, refused to take the passenger southwards that night. (The airline in question however, very decently honoured the punter's ticket and shipped the chap out on the next day's flight.)
All fairly straightforward so far, I think?
However, it would appear that no baggage whatsoever was off loaded from this Africa bound flight. All the family had checked in together and so the baggage tag receipts were all on one ticket, as it were. One presumes that the presumption was made that the detainee was neither playing nor acting drunk with the motive of avoiding the flight, having already possibly placed something nasty in one or more of the many checked in bags?
Perhaps it would have been a better idea to off load either all of the family members (which would not have been very politic) or all of their baggage, which would, given the physological possibilities, have been sensible and could have been achieved surreptitiously.
(With a wary eye on the flack farm, little cheetah has tried very hard to make sure that this story is correct in every pertinent way before posting.
The details are correct, to the best of his belief - for what they are worth, of course!)
Toodle Pip!!:O
A strange rumour with far more truth in it than one might like to hear has come down the jungle drums.
On New Year's day a certain airline had a scheduled departure from Switzerland to South Africa. The scheduled departure time was, so one hears, 22.30LMT.
A group of seven family members checked in their ton of baggage and six of them went through security.
Subsequently those six members of the family boarded the aircraft. The seventh, arriving late, from the land side bar at security, was held at security for being drunk. This he was, totally. The matter was reported to the Captain who, quite rightly, refused to take the passenger southwards that night. (The airline in question however, very decently honoured the punter's ticket and shipped the chap out on the next day's flight.)
All fairly straightforward so far, I think?
However, it would appear that no baggage whatsoever was off loaded from this Africa bound flight. All the family had checked in together and so the baggage tag receipts were all on one ticket, as it were. One presumes that the presumption was made that the detainee was neither playing nor acting drunk with the motive of avoiding the flight, having already possibly placed something nasty in one or more of the many checked in bags?
Perhaps it would have been a better idea to off load either all of the family members (which would not have been very politic) or all of their baggage, which would, given the physological possibilities, have been sensible and could have been achieved surreptitiously.
(With a wary eye on the flack farm, little cheetah has tried very hard to make sure that this story is correct in every pertinent way before posting.
The details are correct, to the best of his belief - for what they are worth, of course!)
Toodle Pip!!:O