Alaska Pilot Bitten

[Fubijaakr]

I don't see where it says the bite victim was a pilot. I can't understand why a pilot would have exited the cockpit before the aircraft reached the gate.

I call BS until further info.

Wrong.

The article was very vague as was the info we got from the rumor tree. I am assuming the FO was in back commuting home and tried to help out. Truth is, you never know what you are going to get out of Anchorage. I would imagine this rabid dog of a person took some kind of illicit drug on descent and had a bad reaction. Or they were completely nuts. Who knows. Hope he didn't have HIV or rabies.

Wrong.

Posted: 11:03 am PDT September 5, 2011Updated: 1:06 pm PDT September 5, 2011
SEATAC, Wash. -- An Alaska Airlines crew member was taken to the hospital after an early morning attack by a passenger at Sea-Tac airport. The incident happened on Alaska Airlines flight 108 from Anchorage just after 4:30 am Monday morning.
Alaska Airlines officials say a passenger became disruptive towards the end of the flight and charged the door once the plane was stopped at the gate. Crew members and other passengers were able to calm the suspect down.
Because the plane was parked at the gate, the First Officer (Co-Pilot) came out of the cockpit to assist. In the struggle, the passenger bit the First Officer on the arm. Port of Seattle Police took both the First Officer and the passenger to the hospital. The passenger will undergo a mental evaluation and could face felony assault charges.

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True Story, heard from a management person today that they had just docked at the gate, before the jetway was in place. This Nut freaked out and attempted to open the L1 door. Apperently they had just opened the flight deck door when it started, the FO was trying to help the the A, who was trying to keep him from opening the door before the jetway was in place!​

Correct. We talked to the F/O on the phone the night it happened. The jet was at the gate. Passenger tried to open the door. F/As tried to restrain him, when the F/O came out of the flight deck, the pax was down on the floor with the F/A and a couple other pax holding him down. When the F/O went to assist, the guy bit a chunk out of his forearm.

 

[BarbrPole2theOM]

That sounds closer to the truth, except the passenger was still up and trying to open the door when the FO came out and he processed to wrestle the passenger to the ground with the assistance of other passengers.

 

[Fubijaakr]

I think you might be right. I heard the story 2nd hand from the guy who talked to the F/O on the phone.

 

[bpapaDC8]

Overheard at the bar, you think you had a bad day? Lemme tell you about the time...

 

[dicko]

True Story, heard from a management person today that they had just docked at the gate, before the jetway was in place. This Nut freaked out and attempted to open the L1 door. Apperently they had just opened the flight deck door when it started, the FO was trying to help the the A, who was trying to keep him from opening the door before the jetway was in place!​

As long as the door was disarmed, perhaps the simplest solution would have been to let him open it. He steps out into space, legs peddling like Wiley Coyote running off a cliff.

The PD scrape him off the tarmac into the van. Problem solved.

 

[ImbracableCrunk]

As long as the door was disarmed, perhaps the simplest solution would have been to let him open it. He steps out into space, legs peddling like Wiley Coyote running off a cliff.

The PD scrape him off the tarmac into the van. Problem solved.

I like it! Who are we to argue with natural selection? He'll probably breed and make more little nutcases now.

 

[ultrarunner]

I'm thinking let the idiot open the door and fall to the ground. Problem solved.