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Old Apr 23, 2016, 11:58 pm
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Transpacificflyer
 
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Originally Posted by Stranger
Do these luggage carts even have a seat belt?
Baggage tugs are supposed to. Provincial workers comp safety rules apply in respect to safety harnesses and seatbelts etc. Here is the summary from the USA and seatbelts are a requirement. Canada is the same.

http://airlines.org/wp-content/uploa...ide-4-3-13.pdf

This will be very interesting. Seems to me that either the tug was blown over by jet engine exhaust or it was speeding in excess of the applicable limit. I won't speculate and will await the WSIB report (next year....)
The tarmac is covered by CCTV so there should be a recording of the event.
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