Ramp Agent Hit in Charlotte. RIP

Discussion on a.net was that a tug with poor rearward visibility did a 180 after detaching and ran over a marshaller.
 
This is the damage done to a CRJ-200 that was done when ramper pulled out in front of it in CLT a while ago. Damn near killed the ramper. She got away with just a missing finger.
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jtrain609 said:
Same. The ramp is incredibly dangerous.
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demanding, dangerous work out in the elements- and people who are rushed through training just to move the metal. The covid loss/brain drain of experience didnt help them, lots of learning on the job to keep you alive. I will chew anyone out who talks smack about the rampers while we sit in a dry, air conditioned cockpit.
 
ERfly said:
Yep!

Both of my IOEs at Purple, both LCAs showing me the first walk around on the MEM ramp said the same thing:
"The number 1 goal of the walk around is not to get killed."
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This! I worked the ramp for years and it seems a bit more dangerous as a pilot. Cargo ramps seem to be worse, at least for us in SDF especially on ramp 9. The way most of the airplanes are parked over there require you to be walk on the service road or on the very edge to get to the steps.

This and blind spots when getting out the van. I always look before hopping out. I’ve seen vehicles speed right past an open van door too close for comfort.
 
phill1174 said:
This! I worked the ramp for years and it seems a bit more dangerous as a pilot. Cargo ramps seem to be worse, at least for us in SDF especially on ramp 9. The way most of the airplanes are parked over there require you to be walk on the service road or on the very edge to get to the steps.

This and blind spots when getting out the van. I always look before hopping out. I’ve seen vehicles speed right past an open van door too close for comfort.
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The scary part for me is the left wingtip. The tugs are pulling up to and away from the loader at the main cargo door. They're often watching the ramper and the loader marshal them in and out and not looking in front or behind.

Or worse, they're coming up to the loader from the tail end of the jet at a fairly good rate of speed and I can't see them coming behind me. Given that these are Memphis drivers outside of work adds a whole new level of danger.

People ask me what the scariest part of my job is. I have 2 answers:
1. The drive to and from work on 240
2. The bus ride to and from AOC and the jet.

(But at least everyone honks their horn...)
 
Walking around the tail in JFK you have to enter the service road. I am always extremely cautious of that. Never makes me feel great.
 
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