Originally Posted by The Independent
Meanwhile, back among the 87 passengers on the shuttle flight bound for Gatwick via Antigua, were sitting two very anxious men: the local BA airport duty manager and station engineer.
Sitting together in aisle 10, they knew that the jet was about to take off from the wrong section of tarmac.
Must have been a pretty wide aeroplane too according to The Independent - Most aircraft have one or two aisles, but this one had 10.
There's a map of the airport on
flightglobal.com.
I was just wondering though - the local airport people on board clearly were unsuccessful in preventing the take off. I can kind of understand that - as cabin crew you probably don't want to listen to a passenger jumping up at you saying the aircraft shouldn't take off. But, the crew must have known these two people, and must have appreciated that these guys knew what they were talking about, and being BA employees wouldn't unnecessarily prevent an aircraft from taking off. So why didn't the message get through?