mesa ground incident in phl 10/27

[Dash8]

read in another forum that a mesa flight in phl on 10/27 had a run in with a grnd vehicle, anyone know any details?

 

[DDpaysoff]

I'm surprised there is not more of these. We got cut off by some jackasss the other night. That airport should be imploded. What a dump. That's some ramp operation over there too. Good luck SWA. If you make that work, it will be a miracle.

 

[RIDETHELIGHTING]

Ground crews at all the U station run into airplanes all the time. This is not new news at all.

 

[Airpiraterob]

i saw a nice wall chart outlining all the USairways ground incidents by base....bar graphs going up and everything......all these bases had a nice bar goign up for a few inches...then it got to philly, at least 5 times the ammount of incidents! looked like a stock-market spike.

 

[islandhopper]

read in another forum that a mesa flight in phl on 10/27 had a run in with a grnd vehicle, anyone know any details?

The rampers were probably in a rush to get back to watching LOST.

 

[Dash8]

despite my general distaste for mesa,
i wasn't attempting to turn this thread into a bash fest,
just curious what happened because the whole scenario sounded f'd up
dragging a groundvehicle? how did it get so close as to be struck by a taxiing plane?

 

[Dash8]

f terminal rampies

The rampers were probably in a rush to get back to watching LOST.

or if there was basketball/foolsball game on, one of my many gripes about that station is that the rampies are hard enough to get to do their jobs normally,
let alone if the eagles or sixers are playin...
then your better off getting out and pushing the plane yourself than waiting for their lazy asses

and before any of you get on my case about how hard of a job it is, i'm intimately aware, i worked the ramp locally years ago for delta, i know how much it can suck to be out there, but we were still out there doing our jobs, waiting at the gate when the plane was taxiing in, regardless of the weather