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How'd I Get on a Flight to Seattle?
We're all on a journey to somewhere, but if we just drift through life, we'll wind up in some strange places. Take this cargo worker from Alaskan Airlines, for instance. After falling asleep in the cargo hold, the inattentive worker had inadvertently boarded a flight to the Seattle-Tacoma Airport. The shocked workers dialed 911 and said, "Hello, I'm trapped in this plane, and I called my job and I'm in this plane." The 911 operator replied, "You're where?" The unnamed worker said, "I'm inside this plane and I feel like it's moving in the air. Flight 448, can you please tell somebody to stop it?" He continued to plead for help until his phone connection cut off.
According to one news story, "Passengers heard a loud banging from underneath and at least one feared there might be a problem with the landing gear … Alaska Airlines said the employee was in a pressurized, temperature-controlled portion of the cargo hold. He was taken to a hospital and was discharged after passing a drug test."
Source:
Staff, “Audio reveals pleas of worker trapped in plane cargo hold,” CBS News (4-16-25)