BA hostie in the loo on landing.
 

Yesterday I flew back from CDG with BA. About 2 mins before touchdown a cabin crew member popped into the loo beside the flight deck (757) and stayed there till after we landed. Apart from the obvious reason why she might be in there, are there any rules to state that the loo's should be vacant for landing. Do BA have a problem with the number of crew seats on the LHR / CDG route. Just curious.

Can't comment on the actual case described, but if we have excess cabin crew members (due to a high club load) then the extra crew member is accomodated on the flight deck for take-off and landing.

You can be sure of one thing. That crewmember didnt have a seatbelt on. Although if there was anyplace that needed them it would be in there. Every think that it might have just been one of those "emergencies"?

Yes, the loos must be vacant on landing. And no, BA do not have a problem with the number of crew seats on the LHR / CDG route; or any other route for that matter.

. .Regards. .Exeng

...well just another reason why hosties should be recruited with just a little more intelligence...most are rather thick...as the story indicates.

or maybe she was all too familiar with the flight deck crews capabilities and went in there to excercise her barking spider <img src="eek.gif" border="0"> <img src="eek.gif" border="0">

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411, while your, perhaps humourously intended comment has no significance at all regarding the intelligence of fa's in general, it does give all of us a fine look at the extent of your own brain capacity. :)

Perhaps she was ill.

Or is that too obvious?

From Sky News:

""Traveller's Toilet Terror . . . .Every air passenger's nightmare came true for an American woman when she was sucked into an aeroplane's loo.

The traveller spent her entire transatlantic journey from Scandinavia to the US sealed firmly to the seat after she was dragged into the bowl by the high pressure vacuum flushing mechanism.

She was eventually liberated by technicians when the Boeing 767 touched down in America.

'Not happy'

The woman is now filing a complaint to Scandinavian Airlines.

"She was stuck there for quite a long time," a company spokesman said.

"She could not get up by herself and had to sit on the toilet until the flight had landed so that ground technicians could help her get loose."

. . :) :) :) :)

Not the first time at all....can recall years ago a female passenger was trapped on the "seat" when the outflow plug became lose on a United DC-6B over Colorado....took the fire department at least half an hour to "free" her in Chicago.. .4.16 psi...not all that much.. .Don't know if the "hosties" tried to assist....not likely <img src="rolleyes.gif" border="0">

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But surely one good fart would have released the vacuum! Feed em beans!! :) :) :)

Once had a rather ample american lady sucked snugly stuck on the toilet of a 747-400.

We eventually managed to break the vacuum somewhere over Greenland by inserting spoons.. . :)

I can remember in the early production days of the BAe146 where there was an occasion of a woman of ample proportions getting stuck, in a similar way, to the loo on an Air Cal machine.

The solution was to re-design the loo seat to cater for the larger American ladies that used that particular airline. In fact, if memory serves me right, the mod was offered to Air Wisconsin and Aspen as well.

My late Aunt made her own loo seat belt!

In the early days of the package trade she was returning from the Canaries in a piston type a/c. In her own words "It was a terribly rough night but when I thought it was okay I asked the girl if it was safe to go and she said yes. Anyway I had nearly finished when the plane hit a big "air pocket" (now my aunt always wore large volmuminous bloomer type underwear) and I went up, the seat went up and when I came down again my draws were underneath the seat. It took me well over 20 minutes to sort myself out. The stewardess did come and ask if I will all right and could she help? But I was certainly not going to open the door and let someone as young as that see me in that state!

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flapsfourty

You have a quite magnificent talent for finding interesting new uses for ordinary household items! :)

I know this is almost "jet blast" material, but I knew of a Hostie who hurried her safety demo before dep, legs crossed, only forgetting to lift the lid once in. A rather damp 4 sectors followed!! <img src="eek.gif" border="0">