Co-pilot forgets passport and delays SFO flight
May 13, 2018, 8:12 am
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Co-pilot forgets passport and delays SFO flight
It appears that today's LHR-SFO flight (BA 287) has been delayed due to one of the flight crew forgetting their passport. They've just popped home to get it!
The Tweeters are all over it...
The Tweeters are all over it...
May 13, 2018, 8:30 am
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OSKAR: Okay, show me. Suppose you’re all ready to take off. Suddenly you realise: oh no! You’ve left your licence passport at home. What do you do?
MARTIN: Oh, that’s easy.
OSKAR: Yes?
MARTIN: That wouldn’t happen.
OSKAR: Okay. But if it did?
MARTIN: But it wouldn’t. No, mylicence passport is in a special inside pocket of my flight bag. I never take it out except at Customs; and I check it’s there on leaving my home, on getting into my car, on leaving my car, on entering the terminal, on leaving the terminal, and on entering the aircraft.
OSKAR: Why do you do that if you never take it out?
MARTIN: So that I can never leave it at home.
MARTIN: Oh, that’s easy.
OSKAR: Yes?
MARTIN: That wouldn’t happen.
OSKAR: Okay. But if it did?
MARTIN: But it wouldn’t. No, my
OSKAR: Why do you do that if you never take it out?
MARTIN: So that I can never leave it at home.
May 13, 2018, 8:31 am
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Hmmm to my mind something doesn’t ring true here.
He/she would of needed the passport to check in for the flight so I don’t see how it ceases only identified once the passengers were onboard.
Surtelt the cree check in sometime prior to the boarding, have the briefing, check out the aircraft. Sort the fuel. Walk around etc.
if this really ally is the truth I think it would of been known about prior to passenger boarding.
Clearly im no pilot and am quite happy to be corrected.
cs
He/she would of needed the passport to check in for the flight so I don’t see how it ceases only identified once the passengers were onboard.
Surtelt the cree check in sometime prior to the boarding, have the briefing, check out the aircraft. Sort the fuel. Walk around etc.
if this really ally is the truth I think it would of been known about prior to passenger boarding.
Clearly im no pilot and am quite happy to be corrected.
cs
May 13, 2018, 8:34 am
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I find it a bit astonishing - but that many twitter users can't all be wrong at once ;-)
Personally - my passport remains in a common place when I'm not travelling. It goes in my bag the night before, but it doesn't get crossed off my packing list (and yes - I do have a packing list for every single trip) until I'm about to walk out the door - and even then, I check where it is, get it out, open it, check it's mine and put it back. I'll do that two or three times before I leave the house.
A wise man (my brother who spent the greater part of his 20s living on exs on company business) use to tell me: "Make sure you have your passport and your credit card. Everything else can be bought". So I continue to live by that mantra - and I will triple check both of those items before I leave.
Personally - my passport remains in a common place when I'm not travelling. It goes in my bag the night before, but it doesn't get crossed off my packing list (and yes - I do have a packing list for every single trip) until I'm about to walk out the door - and even then, I check where it is, get it out, open it, check it's mine and put it back. I'll do that two or three times before I leave the house.
A wise man (my brother who spent the greater part of his 20s living on exs on company business) use to tell me: "Make sure you have your passport and your credit card. Everything else can be bought". So I continue to live by that mantra - and I will triple check both of those items before I leave.
May 13, 2018, 8:41 am
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A wise man (my brother who spent the greater part of his 20s living on exs on company business) use to tell me: "Make sure you have your passport and your credit card. Everything else can be bought". So I continue to live by that mantra - and I will triple check both of those items before I leave.
May 13, 2018, 8:42 am
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We don’t need our passports to “check-in” for flights, however of course we are meant to have them with us. I have seen this happen a few times. Usually the crew member has just come back from holiday or they came back as a passenger on their previous duty. Us females need to use a different handbag when we position. I check as I leave home and once I get to T5. Depending on where we are going it’s really the last thing you want to happen.
May 13, 2018, 8:42 am
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Hmmm to my mind something doesn’t ring true here.
He/she would of needed the passport to check in for the flight so I don’t see how it ceases only identified once the passengers were onboard.
Surtelt the cree check in sometime prior to the boarding, have the briefing, check out the aircraft. Sort the fuel. Walk around etc.
if this really ally is the truth I think it would of been known about prior to passenger boarding.
Clearly im no pilot and am quite happy to be corrected.
cs
He/she would of needed the passport to check in for the flight so I don’t see how it ceases only identified once the passengers were onboard.
Surtelt the cree check in sometime prior to the boarding, have the briefing, check out the aircraft. Sort the fuel. Walk around etc.
if this really ally is the truth I think it would of been known about prior to passenger boarding.
Clearly im no pilot and am quite happy to be corrected.
cs
When departing from LHR, the operating crew would not need to show a passport when checking in. (only their airline ID is required)
May 13, 2018, 8:50 am
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Our passports live permanently in the travel wallet. They get joined by relevant currency and BPs. The only time they ever leave the wallet is when have checked in, and we each carry our own BPs and Passports through security and to boarding, when all items are then re-united.
We are phobic about ensuring everything is in place, but I guess in the FOs case a bit of unusual activity tripped him up. He has my sympathy.
We are phobic about ensuring everything is in place, but I guess in the FOs case a bit of unusual activity tripped him up. He has my sympathy.
May 13, 2018, 8:50 am
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Perhaps they can make up some time en route. This has just been released from BA (and it has a sound track) and got Cpt Dave in to SFO in four minutes, so I'll slip it in here.
