Originally Posted by
1010101
It would be very dangerous to have ground staff out operating heavy equipment on an airfield.
There are a number of citizen-reporter videos out there from Hato showing trucks keeling over, heavy dumpsters and other loading equipment shuffling wildly all over the place, a construction crane doing wild 360s, scaffolding smashing into building windows, people getting knocked over by the wind, and the clincher, a truck overturning and crushing its owner to death.
And airports are full of loading equipment, trucks, and things that swing in and out. Plus things that fly.
I guess
christep grew on up on the French Lieutenant's Woman coastline, but to me Hato was a one in a 5-10 year event...