jabird

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

"Drunk tries to stop easyJet on runway"




....don't you just love journos!!

lomapaseo

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

"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

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

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!

BOAC

Few Cloudy - classic! Thank you - I enjoyed it. Worth framing that

Jerricho

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

Few Cloudy,

Spot on.

oTd.

PAXboy

Perhaps add?

Shrieking What is assumed to happen when there is an Emergency. Whereas people usually go very quiet to try and learn something.

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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you any different." Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Beausoleil

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

"Hell" - an inconvenience, esp. when related to safety

cwatters

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

(is there such a thing as a "drunk strike"?)

Few Cloudy

Thanks boys,

There is no copyright on these terms - the more the merrier.

FC.

Onan the Clumsy

Greedy Airline Management = Airline management who are greedy

Monty77

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