Air Canada: Woman wakes up alone on dark, parked plane

Gerald · 06-23-19, 06:12 PM

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A woman has said she was left alone on an Air Canada plane after falling asleep during a flight.

Tiffani Adams said she fell asleep while flying from Quebec to Toronto on 9 June. When she woke up, she was freezing cold and still buckled into her seat, but the aircraft was parked.

She said she had experienced "reoccurring night terrors" since the incident took place.

Air Canada has confirmed the incident occurred and is investigating

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48739532

This is odd, how can the crew forget a passenger? abducted....

Falkirion · 06-23-19, 06:51 PM

This is shocking. How did the crew miss her? Is it a failure of the procedures or just general human error? Hope the investigation sheds some light.

Sailor Steve · 06-23-19, 08:54 PM

It could have been worse. She could have slept until some other passenger wanted her seat for the next flight. Or if the plane was lightly loaded she could have woken up halfway to somewhere else.

Jimbuna · 06-24-19, 05:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

It could have been worse. She could have slept until some other passenger wanted her seat for the next flight. Or if the plane was lightly loaded she could have woken up halfway to somewhere else.

Aye

u crank · 06-24-19, 06:31 AM

Seems a little fishy.

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Ms Adams said on Facebook that she woke up "around midnight [a few hours after the flight landed] freezing cold still trapped in my seat in complete darkness."

Trapped? She had her seatbelt on. Freezing cold? It's June.

I have found that the deboarding process is pretty noisy. People are getting stuff out of the overhead storage and talking while standing in the aisle. You would have to be a pretty sound sleeper to not wake up during that. Did she take a sleeping pill? Anti nausea pills will make you sleepy as well. Doesn't seem like we are getting the whole story here.

em2nought · 06-24-19, 09:01 AM

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Originally Posted by u crank

Seems a little fishy.

Freezing cold? It's June.

Women??????? My mother tells me it's freezing whenever I move her air conditioning slightly below eighty degrees fahrenheit. LOL I'm sweating my you know whats off.

I think I might be traumatized if I ever get a good night's sleep too. LOL Having a whole airplane to myself sounds like a dream come true.

Sailor Steve · 06-24-19, 09:41 AM

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Originally Posted by u crank

Trapped? She had her seatbelt on. Freezing cold? It's June.

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Originally Posted by em2nought

Women??????? My mother tells me it's freezing whenever I move her air conditioning slightly below eighty degrees fahrenheit. LOL I'm sweating my you know whats off.

Not just women. As I approach 70 I notice that the 75 degrees I used to keep the apartment at sometimes leaves my legs feeling cold. On the other hand letting it get above 80 plays hell with my computer cooling.

Something that only occurred to me now is the question of how she got off the plane. Are the jetways hooked up and open when everything is shut down? That makes me wonder what would happen if she was at a small airport in Alaska, with air stairs instead of jetways, and it gets really cold?

em2nought · 06-24-19, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

That makes me wonder what would happen if she was at a small airport in Alaska, with air stairs instead of jetways, and it gets really cold?

In the Holy Loch, Deck Division accidentally left a guy out overnight on a work boat moored at a buoy. They figured it out at roll call the next morning. He looked pretty darn cold when they brought him in. He'd taken his socks off his feet and had them on his hands. Thank God for a stash of Kapoks I suppose. No repercussions for anyone in charge, and that kind of thing is why I left the Navy.

JU_88 · 06-25-19, 02:35 AM

A woman wakes up on a dark plane, accused of a crime she didn't commit etc
coming to a cinema near you.

Sailor Steve · 06-25-19, 07:26 AM

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Originally Posted by JU_88

A woman wakes up on a dark plane, accused of a crime she didn't commit etc
coming to a cinema near you.

You left out the part where Liam Neeson fights his way into the dark, empty aircraft and heroically unbuckles her seat belt.

Platapus · 06-26-19, 06:06 PM

I have had it with these $%^& women on this $%^& plane!!!

Seriously, I also wonder if we are getting the whole story.

ikalugin · 06-26-19, 06:38 PM

I mean getting off the plane is not going to be hard, just, ehem, tricky as you can engage the inflatable emergency slide.

STEED · 06-27-19, 04:43 AM

Sounds like a case for....

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Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 18,973 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	I have had it with these $%^& women on this $%^& plane!!! Seriously, I also wonder if we are getting the whole story. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

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Falkirion Ace of the Deep Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Melbourne, AUS Posts: 1,043 Downloads: 34 Uploads: 0	This is shocking. How did the crew miss her? Is it a failure of the procedures or just general human error? Hope the investigation sheds some light.

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JU_88 Silent Hunter Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: UK Posts: 3,727 Downloads: 11 Uploads: 0	A woman wakes up on a dark plane, accused of a crime she didn't commit etc coming to a cinema near you.