PHOENIX (Gray News) – A woman is facing charges after running onto the tarmac at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
According to the police report, the door to the jetway was already secured when Vickie Meyers, of St. Louis, Missouri, tried to catch a flight Sunday afternoon. more here
One of the first things I learned when I was a plane captain in an F-4 fighter squadron is that you never run out onto the tarmac when a plane is running. That’s just plain stupidity and a not so great way to get killed.
Well that’s the face of Crazy if I ever saw it!
But they do it in the movies all the time!
It’s totally normal if she really, really needed to talk to somebody about golf and grandkids
This is all bullshit. I saw it done in Afghanistan, and it works.
It’s becoming really obvious that US society is getting significantly stupider. Maybe she should’ve tried entering the plane through the landing gear doors. I heard there is a hatch to the baggage compartment there. Just one quick dumbwaiter ride up to first class from there… honest.
Karen needs to get on the plane.
The Karen hairdo is the best part of it
@TheMule — Also, the engine intake cowling is nice and smooth and a comfy place to sit.
It’s not newsworthy unless she was naked.
She reportedly told the police that she identified as an Aghani and thought that it was acceptable to ride on the outside of the airplane.
…y’know, you go a little further down that same page, there’s THIS li’l gem…
https://www.kold.com/2021/12/29/suspect-held-without-bail-after-severed-head-found-truck/
…seems folks everywhere are having some difficulty keeping their heads together, although in fairness, this guy sure had a hold on someone else’s…
It would have made a better statement if she were hanging from the wheel and lost her grip. Here’s her problem:
1. She’s alive
2. She’s a felon
3. She’ll be placed on the no fly list
4. Got the death jab to fly
5. A teachable and expensive moment
Yeah she was a little late, but she only had two bags. Under her eyes.
Cheryl, like in the movie Bullitt where Steve McQueen chases the bad guy across the tarmac at San Francisco International airport and runs under a Boing 727 while it’s getting ready to take off. That’s the 2nd best chase scene in Bullitt next to the car chase between McQueen’s 68 Mustang and the 68 Dodge Charger thru the streets of San Francisco.
A symptom of Mass Formation Psychosis that started in earnest with the Covid Crap. Every Branch Covidian has it. They believe their beliefs (eg. masks) makes them invincible and affords them the right to get in your face to comment on your noncompliance.
She’ll be a TikTok star soon.
I sat in an airport the other day and looked at a friend’s app for a while. I’ve never seen a more ignorant group of humans in my life.
I’m sure the Chinese are loving the idiocy. They’ll waltz right in and take over these monkeys toot sweet.
geoff the aardvark DECEMBER 30, 2021 AT 10:19 AM
“One of the first things I learned when I was a plane captain in an F-4 fighter squadron is that you never run out onto the tarmac when a plane is running. That’s just plain stupidity and a not so great way to get killed.”
…I never served in the Navy so I have zero personal experience, but growning up, I did quite enjoy everything that was written by Rear Admiral Daniel V. Gallery, the Captain of the task force that captured the U-505 on the high seas among other accomplishments, who also served into the jet age as well.
Many of the things he said have stuck with me and served me well later in life to remember, but the one that is relevant here is that I recall him writing that as they are initiating flight deck operations, the call goes out on the 1MC to “Secure all loose items and stand clear of helicopter rotors and jet intakes”.
I recall him as going on to say “The penalty for disobeying this order is severe and messy”.
Perhaps you can elaborate, since you actually lived it?
…in any case, I would imagine this woman would have been better served if she had also had this advice…
Karen missed her flight and was looking for the assistant manager of the plane.
The sooner these people die, by whatever means, the better off the rest of us will be…..
Believe that one is Sicilian.
Then his wife reads his comments.
Expected release from intensive care unit on Saturday…
Was probably the “Change MY Mind” sign that set her off.
You know how she voted.
SNS, we did FOD (foreign object damage) walkdowns daily both at NAS Miramar, Cal. and on the flight deck of the Kitty Hawk lined up an arm’s length apart walking the flightline looking for and picking up any item no matter how small that could cause damage to a jets intake while on the flightline. We picked up small rocks, pieces of safety wire etc. any anything that could damage a jet when it was ready to take off. My Chief, Chief John Stuber would always use the phrase “Head em up and move em out” from Rawhide to motivate us every morning on FOD walkdowns. One time some one found a loose 20 mm cannon shell lying on the flight deck under an A 7 and picked it up and the shit hit the fan with the Safety Officers until they found who had not accounted for that before our FOD walkdown. I was very well aware of where all the jet intakes were (A 7’s were the worst with their low slung intakes under the nose of the plane), propellors on the big E 2 C Hawkeye AWACS planes, the props are invisible especially at night when it’s dark and we were running red lights on the flight deck so as not attract attention like white lights would. I learned to walk around them as much as possible. Safety, safety and safety were constantly being preached to be aware of your surroundings up on the flight deck at all times, it was highly choreographed chaos up there during full flight ops. I was knocked down by a jet blast one of the first times that I was on the flight deck and was grabbed by my collar by a Safety Officer who stopped me from bouncing down the deck with a 100 # of tie down chains on my back in order to secure my plane when it landed and I had to tie it down to the padeyes in order to secure it. It was never a dull moment up there, I wouldn’t trade the experience and adventure of working on the flight deck at the age of 20 to 22 years old although now as I’ve gotten older I know young guys who still think that they are indestructible are better at doing that. I was being towed and riding the brakes on one of our jets across the flight deck once off of Hawaii in a rain squall when the tow tractor lost traction and my plane almost went over the side of the deck, believe me I was ready to jump the 90 or more feet to the water if that had happened and fortunately it didn’t. And I even got a few stitches in my forehead once for not wearing my helmet (my mistake) while underneath my plane doing an inspection and smacking my head on a Sidewinder missile fin which caused it to bleed profusely and I had to go see the Corpsman for stitches after another plane captain in my squadron saw me whose nickname was Rat (he was from New Jersey) and yelled at me “Jesus, JR (my nickname) go and see the Corpsman before you bleed all over the place.” Like I say it was never a dull moment working on the flight deck of the Kitty Hawk for a year and a half or more when we were out at sea in the Pacific and Indian Oceans as well as the Straits of Hormuz into the Persian Gulf in 1974.
geoff the aardvark
DECEMBER 30, 2021 AT 1:18 PM
See, that right THERE is the kind of thing I like to read, why I read those books, and what I like to see here. We all only get one lifetime and there’s SO many interesting ways a lifetime can be spent, and many here like yourself have done such amazing things that its a good read and and a glimpse into just a tiny slice of life that someone else lived, that WE could have lived but now can only live through you vicariously. You packed more life into that 18 months then some people do in a lifetime, learning skills and ways of thinking that you use to this day that can benefit others to study.
I can tell you tried to pack a LOT into this tiny space, because there’s too much to say and too few words to share it with. But I appreciate what you did get out there, and while not everyone may appreciate it (believe me, I KNOW), I at the least will ALWAYS be glad for any snippets that folks here may want to share.
I bet you got a million of ’em, and now you’ve broke the ice. It’s not my blog, but if Mr. Hat tolerates ME, I would not be surprised if he doesn’t mind YOU putting some more out there every now and again?
I’m sure I’m not the ONLY one who likes these vignettes of other readers, maybe even a future thread idea, The Hat willing…
…again, though, thanks. And thank you for your service.
God Bless,
SNS
You’re welcome, I was going to join the Navy in 1971 right out of HS but since Vietnam was still hot and heavy my dad took me to lunch and talked me out of it. He was an Air Force veteran between WW2 and Korea and told me to wait, well next year in 72 I got a low draft number while I was living in Portland and enlisted on Aug. 31, 1972 to avoid being drafted, but Nixon ended the draft while I was in boot camp just before the 72 Presidential election. Buit it all turned out well since that 3 years that I spent in the Navy allowed me to grow up and do things that I would’ve never done otherwise, so that’s all good. And when I started college in 1976 I was far more prepared for life than those who hadn’t served in the military at the end of the Viet Nam War and I never was a combat vet but I did get paid combat pay for being off the coast of Viet Nam at Yankee station in the Gulf of Tonkin since it was still an active war zone in 1974 and experienced the fall of S Viet Nam to the commies in May/June 1975 close up. We were the first carrier into the Philippines and I personally saw with everyone else on the Kitty Hawk the first of the refugees and boat people fleeing communism come into the Philippines that Spring. So with that and seeing the Shah of Iran, I was part of the crew that was being inspected one day in the Spring of 1974 when we put on an airshow for him in the Persian Gulf. So I did get to see some of contemporary history firsthand and because of that and it better prepared me for life and becoming a conservative after the war had ended. I wouldn’t trade it for anything, it was worth 3 years of my service. I’m still not crazy about the draft though because of manpower shortages there were a lot of sailors who should never have served but got caught up in the draft. I missed the race riots on board the Kitty Hawk and our sister ship the USS Constellation because I was in boot camp in Oct. of 1972 but a lot of the guys in my squadron who had been there told me about it later.
war stories…
I actually am jealous of those that served. I tried to join the AF in 70, but i didnt pass the physical.
The only war stories i have are from the drug wars.
She looks nice. Anyone have her phone number?