Air Canada Baggage Handler Trapped In Cargo Hold, Screaming Heard From Cabin

I remember an Alaska Airlines incident a decade ago years where a ramp agent fell asleep and the aircraft have even taken off already.

So there were two incidents in the past year.

Imagine to be so dumb in your head you call 911 for something happening in the moving plane you're sitting in instead of talking to the purser/FAs.

What on earth would 911 be able to do

I could see passengers laughing at the lunacy of their situation: we finally get away after a five hour delay and now this crazy nonsense!

Guessing/hoping Rouge had to compensate all these passengers for their inconvenience,

Well, kinda an emergency; maybe they could do both - and these days it's nice to read about a humane response rather than laughter or filming it...

Yes, I think the 5 hour delay prior is an important part of the story - and therefore some laughter may be a natural reaction.

Laughing at the situation? Those who did are scum. Did the baggage handler not have a cell phone on him to call for help? Just curious.

Well, because this does seem to be under the airlines' control, unlike weather, I'd say, yes, those affected passengers should very much be compensated in accordance with Canada's APPR legislation. Now, if this happened in the US, they'd get nothing, because, our airline lobby pays our elected officials to screw us, so they can make more profits, stock buybacks, etc. Let that sink in.

That means an alarming 100% spike. Crap.

Oh, Canada.

The ramper DID have a cellphone. But in accordance to the regulations, he placed it in airplane mode when the door shut. LOL.

1990, the number of posts you make which sound just like Ben’s rhetoric, is uncanny.

That person was there stealing items from baggage, this is why no other handlers said anything because they didn't know someone was still in the compartment. I get items stolen from checked luggage and this is where it happens. That person should have his home searched and charged.

I'm with you. Notify the crew. Consider calling 911 if they crew does nothing. Idiots, we'll intentioned, but idiots.

I'm rather surprised they are equipped with radios that connect to a central location for this or other tarmac issues. At minimum, you'd think they carry those super loud devices used to scare of attackers.

More likely they were assigned to work the flight, didn't get reassigned during the delay and figured they'd catch a nap before anyone called for them to report to another gate.

Ask around about JFK BOS B6 years ago.

I wonder if the ramper, who was trapped in the cargo hold, called 911.

For air canada a 5 hour delay is considered an early arrival.

Well they were going to Moncton....so

I had 35 years with a major US carrier......The ramper fell asleep, bet the house.

Seems about right. Or is said in the States these days, par for the course.