Mike wrote:You didn't sit that one on it's ar*e as well, did you?
1. I was one of the first peeps to have a licence for the air jetty. After an early shift starting at 06:00. I was asked to stay on to put the air jetty on the B707 when it arrived at 19:00.....
2. Got sent to see Liam in the bar at 14:00 for a meal - ended up having a drink with him, which ended up as a bit of a session.
3. 18:45 comes, I'm completely p*ssed, can't stand up, so Colin M in Servisair taes me in a wheelchair to the jetty and tells me that he'll do it, as he is "under training" and can do it when someone with a licence is present.
4. Aircraft comes up the stand, door opens and there is this utterly beautiful hostie awaiting the air jetty.
5. I decide that I'll show her how good I am, get out the wheelchair and wrestle the controls from Colin.
6. Stick fully forward, I whacked the air jetty into OO-SJC at full speed, bouncing off the fuselage and ending a metre or so out of position to the left, apparently taking off one of the external attitude indicators. All we could see was the fuselage, the door had completely disappeared.
7. I was forced back into the wheelchair and taken away (back to the bar) whilst Colin sorted things out. I believe the aircraft had to night stop for repair (?)
8. Suspension for a fortnight (that was the second one - I got an earlier one for putting EI-ANH out of action for a week when the freight went through the floor landing at Dublin....)
9.Sent to Tees-Side and never looked back
J