US Air handler trapped in the baggage hold!
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US Air handler trapped in the baggage hold!
Passengers heard him thumping and shouting, while the pilot of the Embraer E170 was wondering what had happened to the ground handler who was also scheduled to do the pushback from the gate at Reagan Airport, Washington DC on Monday morning, Feb. 7.
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Evidently another baggage handler had closed the cargo compartment door on the first worker, who had crawled into the space, just 37 inches high, while loading baggage.
A spokesman for US Airways, James T. Olson, said that the airline was investigating the incident and that ramp personnel were told to put safety first. The plane, with 76 seats, carried only 29 passengers, mostly business travelers who did not check much luggage.
"It was a light passenger load, a light luggage load, and there was no condition to require anyone to be rushing," Olson said.
"It was a light passenger load, a light luggage load, and there was no condition to require anyone to be rushing," Olson said.
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They are pretty tight, but clearly procedures have failed I handle these aircraft and with the webbing that needs to be secured across the front of the hold door before its shut how he was left in there shouldnt happen.
