Snuggle
Well-Known Member
So this is more of a discussion, however as a Captain what would you do?
So I'm non revenue passenger sitting in the first class cabin of a 777 which has just arrived into EWR from BOM. After a long but pleasant 15.5 hour flight me and all the other passengers are ready to get off the airplane. I am standing in front of the main cabin door as it opens. It opens to 2 police officers who start asking (shouting actually) at the flight attendant.
Officer "Where is the sick passenger?!?!" (very argumentative and yelled loudly)
FA: "I don't know anything about this"
Officer: "You are supposed to have everyone seated so we can get the passenger out, and we need to know where the passenger is seated"
FA "I didn't even know we had a sick passenger on board, I was never told anything about this. " At this time the flight attendant is already calling up front to find out about this.
All the while the other officer now enters the airplane.
Officer: "I need you to have everyone sit down"
Officer "Nobody gets off this airplane until I say so!, everyone needs to sit down!" (this was yelled very loudly)
Officer: "What do you people not understand, I said sit your asses down!"
(yelled loudly as well)
Everyone returns to their seats. Eventually it is discovered there is no sick passenger on board and everyone is allowed to exit the airplane. While deplaning one of the flight attendants is being yelled at by one of the officers. I never found out if the pilots called in a sick passenger and never told the FA's but it seemed like the cops got some wrong information either way. All the FA's were pretty stunned and not too happy about the way the police were handling the situation. It felt more like the twilight zone where we somehow flew back in time and arrived in Nazi Germany.
Discuss....
So I'm non revenue passenger sitting in the first class cabin of a 777 which has just arrived into EWR from BOM. After a long but pleasant 15.5 hour flight me and all the other passengers are ready to get off the airplane. I am standing in front of the main cabin door as it opens. It opens to 2 police officers who start asking (shouting actually) at the flight attendant.
Officer "Where is the sick passenger?!?!" (very argumentative and yelled loudly)
FA: "I don't know anything about this"
Officer: "You are supposed to have everyone seated so we can get the passenger out, and we need to know where the passenger is seated"
FA "I didn't even know we had a sick passenger on board, I was never told anything about this. " At this time the flight attendant is already calling up front to find out about this.
All the while the other officer now enters the airplane.
Officer: "I need you to have everyone sit down"
Officer "Nobody gets off this airplane until I say so!, everyone needs to sit down!" (this was yelled very loudly)
Officer: "What do you people not understand, I said sit your asses down!"
(yelled loudly as well)
Everyone returns to their seats. Eventually it is discovered there is no sick passenger on board and everyone is allowed to exit the airplane. While deplaning one of the flight attendants is being yelled at by one of the officers. I never found out if the pilots called in a sick passenger and never told the FA's but it seemed like the cops got some wrong information either way. All the FA's were pretty stunned and not too happy about the way the police were handling the situation. It felt more like the twilight zone where we somehow flew back in time and arrived in Nazi Germany.
Discuss....