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EasyJet passengers told 'get off the plane or you will be arrested' after fuelling blunder makes flight too heavy
The flight from Birmingham to Geneva was over-filled with 10 tonnes too much fuel so the captain asked the last 37 customers to get off the plane. When some passengers refused to budge they were informed that three police officers were waiting in the airport terminal and would arrest them if necessary. (www.dailymail.co.uk) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
WTH! They are going to "investigate"? Seriously?? Well, I know one thing they just made REAL EASY-- the decision NOT to fly with them next time! Stage left, que Southwest!
Murphy's Law sometimes comes into play. How many people get into car accidents because they weren't paying attention? Aircraft gauges don't always work, fuel loads can get mixed up, and sometimes there's improper communication between dispatch, operations, the flight crew, and the fuelers (especially if it's a regional airline).
...so who doesn't know how to do fuel calculations here???? Or someone wasn't paying attention....comforting to know we've got idiots fueling planes who can't read a fuel meter...what else are they forgetting???
is there any need to make reference to peoples size in this conversation, sick and tired of comments being made about big people big people have rights to, i am 18 stone and i cycle ice skate, not lazy and work full time, so we are all not layabouts and deserve some respect, this error in the weight was clearly either the airlines fault or those that fuel the plane and as for easyjet saying to passengers to get off the plane is disgraceful, its not there fault someone made this error, i dont know.
miss fueling aircraft happen most likely everyday somewhere in the nation. Not all airports have defueling capabilities. it is a real problem to deal with the fuel that comes off an aircraft because it has to go back on the same aircraft because of microbes in the fuel. The ATA manual is specific on how to deal with this situation and not all airports can comply or simply refuse to defuel because of a contamination factor and possible lawsuit.
As a fueler, trainer, and pilot I've seen all kinda of things. We've had a plane that was overfueled by 10,000#'s, but the crew was able to take it. We have a defuel capability, but due to operational requirements, we cannot implement it on a whim. I've also seen a plane taxi for T/O without being fueled, TWICE (and that's just in the past year).
As far as I can gather they remain stubbornly and characteristically quiet.
Not so quiet if you're not in total compliance with (some not all of) their passenger rules.