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Old Jun 24, 2008 | 2:15 pm
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Originally Posted by Burj
Apparently one of the jetbridges at a Northwest gate at SYR is broken so they boarded people via the tail stairs of a DC-9 this morning!

I'd never seen that in person, was pretty cool to watch! Is this common? Have others seen or boarded a plane this way before?
deplaned once last year just after Mesaba took over station operations in Virginia - we were told they "lost" the key's to the jet bridge....man it's slow deplaning that way, especially if you're in row 1
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