?...THE Funniest/most outrageous thing, in your opinion

[skydrol]

[quote name='Nor'Easta' post='554568' date='Dec 20 2007, 10:48 PM']It has yet to happen. It will be when all 3 unions on property (APFA, APA and TWU) all go on strike at the same time! Shutting this piece of an airline down for hours, days or weeks. Now that will be the funniest moment in AA history![/quote]

You can say what you want try to provoke you management stooge.

 

[NewHampshire Black Bears]

As I mentioned earlier(during BOSTONS "hey days") around the time of the mysterious Fires/Leprechauns.....The BOS GM was a Cocky, Pugnacious Little(small) Irishman named Murphy, Who loved to throw his weight around(to Impress HDQ's) :blink: :blink:

With a Looong 4th of July weekend beginning(the 4th was on a Tuesday), an INTRUDER entered (with keys) MURPHY's office, late on Friday evening. 😛h34r:

The "Perp" jumped up on Murphy's large mahogany desk, and opened the top middle desk drawer.

The INTRUDER lowered his trousers, and DEPOSITED a "LARGE steaming LOG" into the drawer, and then closed it. Upon leaving the "scene of the crime", the PERP switched OFF the AC control, and turned the HEAT, to the tune of 90+ degrees...........and then quietly relocked the door, and Vanished into the dark of night. 😎

(Fast forward to 5 days later/Wednesday 8am) Murphy's secretary became ILL, upon reporting to her desk in the next room to MURPHY's. :wacko:

Murphy, ever the "whats wrong, I'll take care of it", little Bastard, unlocked his office, and stormed to his desk/middle drawer. :rant: :rant:

Within 10 minutes, the WHOLE station was rolling on the floor/ramp, wetting their pants from laughter.

Murphy wasn't seen for a week, as he Immediately took an UNSCHEDULED vacation, due to his RAPID acendance to the LAUGHING STOCK of the WHOLE station !!


To this day, the poor building cleaners have been the KEY suspects, but Someone got hold of the right Keys, and made copies !!!!!!!!!!


Hey, "whatchagonnado" ?
Sometimes this job just ..STINKS 🙄 🙄

 

[A/C FIXER]

Back in the days of my being a FSC, we had a FSC in TUL who was getting married and was going to SAT for his honeymoon, his mistake was telling us when he was going. Well we told him that his bags would never make it and they would end up in HNL.
Well needless to say the day arrived and we were all primed, as his and brides bags came thru we took off his SAT tags and put dummy SAT tags on then the original SAT tags were given to the guys working the belly. The bags were brought out for departure and there sat our hero and his wife looking down at us. Well we rip his SAT tags off and his eyes were about as big as saucers, next the HNL tags were attached and sent up the belt. By now he's waving his arms and mouthing out the word nooooooo. We just waved bye and drove off. of course the guys in the belly reattached his original tags, closed up the belly and left. By now the plane is being pushed out and our hero not wanting to make a fuss cause he's a non-rev just sat there and rode to DFW and on to SAT.
When he got back he was soooooooooo P-Od not cause we did that to him, but he couldn't believe anyone could fool him like that.

 

[NewHampshire Black Bears]

In a true story.....very similar to the one, about the newlywed(s) going to SAT, we had Dominican guy on our gate crew, who was on his days off, and was going to Guatemala, to visit his wife's family.

"JJ" (the Dominican) Loooooved to break balls.
As he was sitting up in FIRST CLASS, motioning to a DRINK, in the window, we pulled his bags off the cart, and placed then on the ramp for him to see.

He was shaking his fist, waving, BEGGING etc. Well we put his bags on(without him knowing, and ADDED a "little present" for him .

His bag now contained a BIG, brand new YELLOW wooden AA wheel chock, with rope handle.

When he got back, he threatened the whole crew with bodily harm ! :rant:

When we told him to "Shut the **** UP", he said...LOOK, you clowns have NO Idea, what happened to me, in Guatemala.

Seems that the "Federali's" brought "JJ" and his bag to a private room, told him to OPEN it, and explain "the contents"

When "JJ" ever saw the wheel chock, he dam*ed near SHET a brick !!!

NOT the least bit amused at "JJ's" denying that he NEVER put it in his bag, the Federali's drilled the chock, full of holes, looking for DRUGS, and Invited "JJ" into another room, for a strip, and CAVITY search !!!

When he FINALLY cleared customs, and stepped outside to the sidewalk, a street urchin, selling stuff, off of an old rickety wagon, bought the chock, off of "JJ" for a few peso's !!

We BROKE HIS BALLS FOR "YEARS", over that incident !!!!!

 

[LGA Fleet Service]

I've got a good one, Eagle this time...

I worked a CS for a P/T'er in the outbound this morning,walked in about 04:30 and see two kennels sitting on the Eagle pier.Suprised, I go over and take a look.Imagine my suprise as I get closer I can smell the waste and hear the whimpering coming from these cages.Holy Sh!t, there are two dogs here!

Look at the tags, dogs were supposed to travel LGA-SDF on the 1855 departure last night,passenger checked in at 18:10.

So apparently Eagle missed the dogs, didn't contact the Vetport at JFK for overnight lodging, didn't do anything more than put expedite tags on the kennels and leave them on the pier for the next flight to SDF.20+ hours sitting in their own waste with no food and little water...

Considering the less than stellar dispatch reliability of Eagle, what happens if today's LGA-SDF gets whacked?

What if these dogs needed medication?


I feel bad for the animals, the passenger and the poor Eagle agent in SDF that had to explain to this passenger why her dogs didn't make the flight.

 

[kuro_kuma]

When a gold member thinks there's a chance of an mileage upgrade on a transcon.

That's an absolute horrible story about those poor dogs. I wonder what the remarks on that lost bag claim said. There would have been no info when the tag was run except that they were checked. I hope someone atleast gave them water.

 

[operaations]

who ever dropped the ball on these poor Dogs should be cited for animal cruelty. LGA FLT SVC were you able to at least walk the dogs and hose down the kennell?

 

[kuro_kuma]

who ever dropped the ball on these poor Dogs should be cited for animal cruelty. LGA FLT SVC were you able to at least walk the dogs and hose down the kennell?

I agree. It's bad enough the overlooking or mishandling of these guys, but then to deliberately just slap on a couple of expedite tags like any old luggage knowing there were no more flights that night. Then the next one doesn't get there until noon which is almost 8 hrs after you found them! Luckily (or hopefully) they made it ok and depending on the breed or age due to the freezing temps, didn't die. Hearing stuff like this that involve living creatures really pisses me off. :angry:

 

[LGA Fleet Service]

There would have been no info when the tag was run except that they were checked. I hope someone atleast gave them water.

Very top of the tag, time when the tag was generated.In this instance it read 18:10.

The kennels were ziptied shut, we aren't allowed to open them.I have no idea what happened to them.

 

[NewHampshire Black Bears]

Very top of the tag, time when the tag was generated.In this instance it read 18:10.

The kennels were ziptied shut, we aren't allowed to open them.I have no idea what happened to them.

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LGA,

I would have given them water...................and placed them RIGHT in the SUPERVISORS OFFICE !! (Whichever Supervisor's office, that had direct responsibility to ensure that EVERYTHING was done by the book, before the station was secured for the night)

Just as the contract says....(in so many words).."Management has THE Ultimate right to MANAGE" !!

 

[A/C FIXER]

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LGA,

I would have given them water...................and placed them RIGHT in the SUPERVISORS OFFICE !! (Whichever Supervisor's office, that had direct responsibility to ensure that EVERYTHING was done by the book, before the station was secured for the night)

Just as the contract says....(in so many words).."Management has THE Ultimate right to MANAGE" !!

Bears too bad it didn't happen in BOS, then someone could have released them into Murphys office overnight,
Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year Bears.

 

[Wretched Wrench]

SO, the official question goes like this;

"What (IYO) is THE funniest/most outrageous incident, that you ever saw/heard about, that happened in ANY AA station, that you were employeed in" ??

We used to get the occasional clogged lav dump chute. We would run the engines and pressurize the plane with the cabin superchargers or turbocompressors, then have the lav man open the valve, and the pressure would force everything into his hose and into the truck tank. Some lav men were afraid that the blast would be a little upsetting, so they sometimes failed to show up for one of those calls.

A couple of my co-workers had a clogged dump chute on the toilet tank. Jet engines are started by lots of compressed air through a 5 or 6 inch hose, connected to the airplane. The air spins a turbine starter. In those days, a start cart provided the air to start engines.
The engines could not be run for some reason, so one guy had the idea of holding the start hose up to the tank drain outlet to blow the blockage back up into the toilet tank to clear the blockage. He told his partner to go up in the lav and stand on the toilet lid to keep everything inside the toilet. Well, the upstairs guy had second thoughts, and just closed the door and stood outside the lav. Well, when it was all over, there were stalactites and TP hanging from the lav ceiling, and the mirror lights were arcing and smoking. The cleaners refused to go near the lav, so the guys had to clean it up themselves.

They ended up using a steam cleaner after putty knives, mops and a garden hose didn't do the job. The steam loosened the vinyl wall covering, so they had to glue it back on. They couldn't get that blue-green stuff, so they used Pliobond, which leaves a horrible odor, particularly in a closed lavatory. It also softens some vinyl and makes it blistery. The lav ended up being blocked closed, but the flight came back after takeoff because of odor complaints at the rear of the airplane. It ended up out of service until the smell left. The guys never lived it down to this day, and that was mid-sixties.

The guy who thought it up has transferred to a couple of different stations, and the story follows him. He ended up as a tech crew chief, telling other guys how to clear lavs. I think he is retired now, but the story lives on.

 

[Wretched Wrench]

[quote name='Nor'Easta' post='554568' date='Dec 21 2007, 04:48 AM']It has yet to happen. It will be when all 3 unions on property (APFA, APA and TWU) all go on strike at the same time! Shutting this piece of an airline down for hours, days or weeks. Now that will be the funniest moment in AA history![/quote]

Never happen.

The pilots have agreed to cross TWU picket lines.

Have the stews? Since they were unhappily married to the TWU and broke away, it would seem likely.

 

[A/C FIXER]

We used to get the occasional clogged lav dump chute. We would run the engines and pressurize the plane with the cabin superchargers or turbocompressors, then have the lav man open the valve, and the pressure would force everything into his hose and into the truck tank. Some lav men were afraid that the blast would be a little upsetting, so they sometimes failed to show up for one of those calls.

A couple of my co-workers had a clogged dump chute on the toilet tank. Jet engines are started by lots of compressed air through a 5 or 6 inch hose, connected to the airplane. The air spins a turbine starter. In those days, a start cart provided the air to start engines.
The engines could not be run for some reason, so one guy had the idea of holding the start hose up to the tank drain outlet to blow the blockage back up into the toilet tank to clear the blockage. He told his partner to go up in the lav and stand on the toilet lid to keep everything inside the toilet. Well, the upstairs guy had second thoughts, and just closed the door and stood outside the lav. Well, when it was all over, there were stalactites and TP hanging from the lav ceiling, and the mirror lights were arcing and smoking. The cleaners refused to go near the lav, so the guys had to clean it up themselves.

They ended up using a steam cleaner after putty knives, mops and a garden hose didn't do the job. The steam loosened the vinyl wall covering, so they had to glue it back on. They couldn't get that blue-green stuff, so they used Pliobond, which leaves a horrible odor, particularly in a closed lavatory. It also softens some vinyl and makes it blistery. The lav ended up being blocked closed, but the flight came back after takeoff because of odor complaints at the rear of the airplane. It ended up out of service until the smell left. The guys never lived it down to this day, and that was mid-sixties.

The guy who thought it up has transferred to a couple of different stations, and the story follows him. He ended up as a tech crew chief, telling other guys how to clear lavs. I think he is retired now, but the story lives on.

Wrench, I believe you're correct, and the guy was from JFK. He came to TUL to teach F100 Gen-Fam, and told us of how when he was a new mechanic they had a clogged upper lav on a 74, they did it twice, 1st time the pressurized the the plane to 7psi and he pulled the cable from inside, what happed was that they had positioned the plane over the floor drain, but not quite, when everything started coming out it looked like chocolate ice cream until the blue water came out all pressurized and blew everything all over the hangar.
The next week another 74 came in with the same problem and this time they decided to use a lav dump cart, the process was started over and this time when the pressurized blue water hit the cart, it ripped the hose free and sent the cart flying into a stores area with several stores clerks having to go home and change their clothes.

 

[MCDP]

I've got a good one, Eagle this time...

I worked a CS for a P/T'er in the outbound this morning,walked in about 04:30 and see two kennels sitting on the Eagle pier.Suprised, I go over and take a look.Imagine my suprise as I get closer I can smell the waste and hear the whimpering coming from these cages.Holy Sh!t, there are two dogs here!

Look at the tags, dogs were supposed to travel LGA-SDF on the 1855 departure last night,passenger checked in at 18:10.

So apparently Eagle missed the dogs, didn't contact the Vetport at JFK for overnight lodging, didn't do anything more than put expedite tags on the kennels and leave them on the pier for the next flight to SDF.20+ hours sitting in their own waste with no food and little water...

Considering the less than stellar dispatch reliability of Eagle, what happens if today's LGA-SDF gets whacked?

What if these dogs needed medication?


I feel bad for the animals, the passenger and the poor Eagle agent in SDF that had to explain to this passenger why her dogs didn't make the flight.

I remember one night at LAX when ramp pulled up to a 757 and offloaded two kennels on to a belt loader for a flight that was going to leave in two hours. They ran the two kennels halfway up the loader and then stopped it and drove away. My crew chief and I went and hunted down these two morons and let them have it. After working at the airline and losing one dog on a flight (loaded in the wrong cargo pit on a trans con coming home from a show), I advise anyone that asks to never ship an animal by air.