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Sleeping Brit Prof on Air Canada Plane Wakes Up in Hangar
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I kinda wondered how deep a sleeper this guy was, too.
That said, the cabin crew doesn't look like it checked the plane over very thoroughly after the flight - if it was an Air Canada Jazz jet, it wasn't even all that big.
That said, the cabin crew doesn't look like it checked the plane over very thoroughly after the flight - if it was an Air Canada Jazz jet, it wasn't even all that big.
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I find it sad that none of the passengers getting off the plane didn't have the common sense or decency to wake this guy up....It would be understandable in Toronto, but Vancouver? 
the above guy was only sleeping, but this one, no one was going to wake
Women try to take body on plane at Liverpool airport
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Police have arrested two women after they tried to take the body of a dead relative on to a plane at Liverpool John Lennon Airport.
Staff became suspicious when they tried to check in 91-year-old Curt Willi Jarant, who was wearing sunglasses, for a flight to Berlin on Saturday.
The women - his widow and step-daughter - said they thought he was asleep.
They were arrested on suspicion of failing to give notification of a death, police said.
The pair, who are German nationals but live in Oldham, Greater Manchester, have been released on bail until 1 June.
It is understood they took Mr Jarant to the airport in a taxi.
'Moving and breathing'
Asked to describe her late husband, who she called Willi, Gitta Jarant said: "[He was] the best man of the world - good man.
"I [did not] kill my Willi. My Willi is my god. I [have loved] my Willi for 22 years."
Mr Jarant's step-daughter Anke Anusic added: "They would think that for 24 hours we would carry a dead person? This is ridiculous. He was moving, he was breathing. Eight people saw him."
Anke Anusic: "Of course we did not know he was dead"
Ms Anusic said her step-father, who suffered from Alzheimer's, had been treated in hospital for pneumonia.
They had waited until he was better before booking a ticket to travel to his native Germany.
"He was released from hospital. He was fine. If he was not fine the hospital wouldn't release him," she said.
And she insisted that with his eyes closed they believed he was asleep.
"He was alive. He was pale but he wasn't dead," Ms Anusic added.
"A dead person you cannot carry to Germany, there are too many people checking and security. How can you bring a dead person to Germany?"
A member of staff at Broadway Cars in Oldham, who asked not to be named, confirmed the private hire company had taken the passengers to Liverpool but declined to comment further, saying it was "a big deal" for the business.
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Women try to take body on plane at Liverpool airport
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Police have arrested two women after they tried to take the body of a dead relative on to a plane at Liverpool John Lennon Airport.
Staff became suspicious when they tried to check in 91-year-old Curt Willi Jarant, who was wearing sunglasses, for a flight to Berlin on Saturday.
The women - his widow and step-daughter - said they thought he was asleep.
They were arrested on suspicion of failing to give notification of a death, police said.
The pair, who are German nationals but live in Oldham, Greater Manchester, have been released on bail until 1 June.
It is understood they took Mr Jarant to the airport in a taxi.
'Moving and breathing'
Asked to describe her late husband, who she called Willi, Gitta Jarant said: "[He was] the best man of the world - good man.
"I [did not] kill my Willi. My Willi is my god. I [have loved] my Willi for 22 years."
Mr Jarant's step-daughter Anke Anusic added: "They would think that for 24 hours we would carry a dead person? This is ridiculous. He was moving, he was breathing. Eight people saw him."
Anke Anusic: "Of course we did not know he was dead"
Ms Anusic said her step-father, who suffered from Alzheimer's, had been treated in hospital for pneumonia.
They had waited until he was better before booking a ticket to travel to his native Germany.
"He was released from hospital. He was fine. If he was not fine the hospital wouldn't release him," she said.
And she insisted that with his eyes closed they believed he was asleep.
"He was alive. He was pale but he wasn't dead," Ms Anusic added.
"A dead person you cannot carry to Germany, there are too many people checking and security. How can you bring a dead person to Germany?"
A member of staff at Broadway Cars in Oldham, who asked not to be named, confirmed the private hire company had taken the passengers to Liverpool but declined to comment further, saying it was "a big deal" for the business.
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Hodgson92 said:I find it sad that none of the passengers getting off the plane didn't have the common sense or decency to wake this guy up....It would be understandable in Toronto, but Vancouver?
Yeah, in Vancouver they tazer you to death
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Ouch!recceguy said:Yeah, in Vancouver they tazer you to death
Tough crowd..... ;D
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What gets me is the spin ( true or not) of how the Airlines come across as not fully accepting a "mea culpa". Yes Sleepy dwarf should be responsiable for being able to wake up, not be left behind and keeping the gene pool polution free. But the airline is also suppose to run a check of the seats to ensure primarily that no one is still on the plane. ( including the bathrooms if I recall correctly) That lost items are accounted for (also a security provision). They clearly had someone ( my opinion many ) fail to ensure the airplane was post flight checked.
How hard is it for Air Canada reps to go. Your absolutely right we messed up and are going to make things right. ( fly anywhere free ticket pronto for say two) Yes they offered him 20% off for four people but the optics are still bad on this one in my opinion.
How hard is it for Air Canada reps to go. Your absolutely right we messed up and are going to make things right. ( fly anywhere free ticket pronto for say two) Yes they offered him 20% off for four people but the optics are still bad on this one in my opinion.
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The 20% offer from Air Canada is a standard offer when things go badly. I had a situation recently which resulted in my family spending some extra time out east because of a booking issue. They had return tickets to YQQ, but when checking in the boarding passes only had them going to YVR.
Apparently the YQQ portion of the trip was never confirmed, even though I had a reference number and an e-ticket through to YQQ. Anyway they could not get back for a couple of days due to availability on CMA. We were offered 20% off our next booking, I declined, and counter offered. I asked that they cover the expenses incurred during those extra days. Which they gladly paid, we ended up getting close to $400 for the two extra days.
Apparently the YQQ portion of the trip was never confirmed, even though I had a reference number and an e-ticket through to YQQ. Anyway they could not get back for a couple of days due to availability on CMA. We were offered 20% off our next booking, I declined, and counter offered. I asked that they cover the expenses incurred during those extra days. Which they gladly paid, we ended up getting close to $400 for the two extra days.
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GAP said:
Weekend at Bernies!?
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PuckChaser said:
That was my first thought too...
With Air Canada, when I was flying back from Hawaii through Vancouver and Calgary to Winnipeg they had overbooked the Hawaii-Vancouver flight by some staggering 40 persons or so. It was a Saturday night, but due to the time differences, and length of the flights and layovers, I wouldn't arrive home until late Sunday afternoon, this being the case for the majority of passengers on my flight. They went through the line and offered us all one nights free hotel stay if we could fly home the next day, but because Monday was a workday for most this was an impossibility.
In the end they went through the manifest and arbitrarily removed people from the flight based on check-in time. They were offered 200$ future travel vouchers as well for any future flights. I just happened to be a lucky one to arrive early and check in early.
I know that all airlines overbook their flights with the knowledge that people will not show, but common sense has to prevail, arriving back on a Sunday afternoon, with Monday being a workday, chances are the flight will be full...
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PuckChaser said:
Heh Heh... I was waiting for someone to mention that.... ;D
My first thought as well....
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Years ago, they sent us to pick up a guy, still in his seat, on a flight from Europe. ( Not the airline in question. ) He was VSA. I didn't notice anyone doing CPR. We asked, but got a vague answer. We could all see he was a goner, but protocol required CPR and transport to ER. The airline people were happy with that. Then some guy ( apparently one of the passengers ) intoduces himself to us as a doctor. He says to stop CPR. We've been burned before, so insisted on seeing some ID. He produced it. We did as we were told, and covered the patient with a sheet. The doctor pronounced the guy and signed our paperwork. He really saved our backs because the now legally dead guy was big, and it's hard work carrying people out of airplanes. Especially while attempting to rescusitate them.
Now, the airline people are pissed at us. A lot of radio chatter between themselves. They called the airport cops on us. The police are talking on their radios. Everybody has a radio except us. He just signed him legally dead on our Ambulance Call Report AS5A, and the doctor is now telling us to schlep the guy to the morgue. They want to use our ambulance as a hearse for their convenience. We told them to call the Coroner's Office to send a body-wagon.
We always tried to keep our customers happy, but we didn't like people ganging up on us and telling us how to do our jobs. So we head back into the Terminal leaving one legally dead passenger ( a Code 6 ), and some very irate people behind. I am sure complaints were made, but we never heard anything about it. It would have been a violation of The Ambulance Act of Ontario to transport a legally dead person, who is not in a public place, by ambulance. We had living people out there waiting for our help.
If that doctor had stayed out of it and let us do our jobs, everyone would have been happy and they could put their jet back into service.
Now, the airline people are pissed at us. A lot of radio chatter between themselves. They called the airport cops on us. The police are talking on their radios. Everybody has a radio except us. He just signed him legally dead on our Ambulance Call Report AS5A, and the doctor is now telling us to schlep the guy to the morgue. They want to use our ambulance as a hearse for their convenience. We told them to call the Coroner's Office to send a body-wagon.
We always tried to keep our customers happy, but we didn't like people ganging up on us and telling us how to do our jobs. So we head back into the Terminal leaving one legally dead passenger ( a Code 6 ), and some very irate people behind. I am sure complaints were made, but we never heard anything about it. It would have been a violation of The Ambulance Act of Ontario to transport a legally dead person, who is not in a public place, by ambulance. We had living people out there waiting for our help.
If that doctor had stayed out of it and let us do our jobs, everyone would have been happy and they could put their jet back into service.
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milnews.ca said:
An 18 year old needed to be escorted to her connecting flight? Really? How do these people even take care of themselves.
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Follow the directions on the door and deploy the slide ;D
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