Woman "woke up to find herself alone" on deserted airplane


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https://www.foxnews.com/travel/air-canada-passenger-dark-empty-plane-alone

I don't buy it, not for a minute. No one over four feet tall could possibly fall asleep in an airplane, certainly not so soundly that she never wakes up while everyone's leaving. I think someone's looking for free flights or other "compensation".

(Though on a very slightly more serious note, I'm sure the crew must have a post-flight walkthrough procedure to avoid just this sort of thing.)

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17 minutes ago, mikbone said:

I totally buy it...

Having never seen the show, I had no idea what you were talking about.  Google to the rescue.

According to WP: This has happened before.  It's apparently extremely rare.  But it happens.

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14 hours ago, Vort said:

https://www.foxnews.com/travel/air-canada-passenger-dark-empty-plane-alone

I don't buy it, not for a minute. No one over four feet tall could possibly fall asleep in an airplane, certainly not so soundly that she never wakes up while everyone's leaving. I think someone's looking for free flights or other "compensation".

(Though on a very slightly more serious note, I'm sure the crew must have a post-flight walkthrough procedure to avoid just this sort of thing.)

This woman is gonna be a millionaire.  I'd say, "Is this a Canada thing?" but interestingly, this happened in IAH back in 2013 as well... 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/06/24/this-is-nightmare-woman-fell-asleep-mid-flight-woke-up-trapped-dark-plane-alone/?utm_term=.05f8b7d967ae

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On 6/24/2019 at 7:18 AM, Mores said:

I was unaware that commercial aircraft were left unused overnight.  Don't they need to be constantly used to justify their cost?

Having grown up (dad was a flight engineer) and worked myself in the aviation community, I'm not surprised that a plane would be left unused overnight.   They are required after a certain number of flight hours to do period checks or maintenance.  Some they can do at the terminal, the more detailed has to be done at a repair facility.  It may have been time for one of these servicings.  

Years ago when I was a Supply Logistics Manager in a facility that repair Navy helicopter and jet engines, the Navy was required to swap out helicopter engines after 700 hours of flight.  

So really not surprising to have downtime for an aircraft. 

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15 hours ago, Vort said:

https://www.foxnews.com/travel/air-canada-passenger-dark-empty-plane-alone

I don't buy it, not for a minute. No one over four feet tall could possibly fall asleep in an airplane, certainly not so soundly that she never wakes up while everyone's leaving. I think someone's looking for free flights or other "compensation".

(Though on a very slightly more serious note, I'm sure the crew must have a post-flight walkthrough procedure to avoid just this sort of thing.)

I once fell asleep in a train. Woke up to find myself alone, in the dark with the train car shuttled into a shed. Pre cell phones. I managed to get out through a very circuitous route. Union station Toronto. Missed my connecting train of course. 

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23 hours ago, Sunday21 said:

I once fell asleep in a train. Woke up to find myself alone, in the dark with the train car shuttled into a shed. Pre cell phones. I managed to get out through a very circuitous route. Union station Toronto. Missed my connecting train of course. 

:eek:

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On 6/24/2019 at 10:07 AM, anatess2 said:

This woman is gonna be a millionaire.  I'd say, "Is this a Canada thing?" but interestingly, this happened in IAH back in 2013 as well... 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/06/24/this-is-nightmare-woman-fell-asleep-mid-flight-woke-up-trapped-dark-plane-alone/?utm_term=.05f8b7d967ae

Oddly enough, I’m sitting in the IAH airport as I’m reading this.  Should I be concerned?

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