AA787823 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (3 years 3 weeks 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 35150 times:
I just got off the phone with a friend of mine who is the injury manager for AA in DFW. Yesterday a fleet service clerk was run over by a push out huff at 22:45. It occured during a heavy rain. The clerk has definately lost his left leg, his right leg is broken in several places, his pelvis is shattered, he has many other internal injuries. Currently the clerk is in a coma at a Dallas Hospital ICU unit. Please keep this airline person in your thoughts and prayers. Cases like this we are not competitors, we are all family.
AA737-823 From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 4126 posts, RR: 10 Reply 1, posted (3 years 3 weeks 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 35153 times:
Oh that's horrible.
What's a huff though? Same as a paymover?
Prayers, for sure.
For unto us a Child is born- unto us a Son is given!
Hiflyer From United States of America, joined Nov 2004, 1642 posts, RR: 6 Reply 6, posted (3 years 3 weeks 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 35025 times:
Yup...paymover...pushback. Seems I read about something happening during push about every 2-3 years....damn. Used to have 4 on a push...one in the tractor...one on headset...2 on wings....then it was 3...then 2...and now some stations have single man pushbacks...didn't get any safer...just cheaper.
FlyDreamliner From United States of America, joined Jan 2006, 2690 posts, RR: 21 Reply 10, posted (3 years 3 weeks 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 34625 times:
God bless him. I know everyone on A.net has him in their thoughts and prayers. It's a terrible thing when decent people befall such tragedy carrying out their jobs.
It's too bad we can't start some kind of donation on here for people like this, and like the ramper who lost a leg when he was ran over by an A319 in DEN some weeks ago. If we could each just give a few dollars with out membership, we could probably do a lot of good for people like this.
"Let the world change you, and you can change the world"
BAW716 From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 1849 posts, RR: 38 Reply 11, posted (3 years 3 weeks 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 34578 times:
This is truly sad.
This is also a reminder to us all that the ramp is the most dangerous place to work in this business. For all the safety training, retraining, procedures and protocols, be in the wrong place at the right time and you can be serious injured or killed. It is also a testament to the professionalism of those people who work there that the injury rate remains relatively low.
While our prayers are with this member of our "family", let us pray also for all those who do this work every day. Let us pray that God watches over them, that he stretches out his hand and touches each and every one of them, so that they mind their surroundings and the other members of the team with whom they work.
baw716
David L. Lamb, fmr Area Mgr Alitalia SFO 1998-2002, fmr Regional Analyst SFO-UAL 1992-1998
KC135TopBoom From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 8142 posts, RR: 51 Reply 12, posted (3 years 3 weeks 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 34583 times:
We are all praying for him. The DFW Public Safety Department and Operations Department are conducting an investigation. It happened on the Terminal C Ramp.
This is the second AA Ramper to be run over this week, here at DFW. The first accident happened last Tuesday, and that man had one leg broken.
Jetboy757 From United States of America, joined May 2006, 21 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (3 years 3 weeks 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 34239 times:
Thoughts and prayers go out to him. My mother moved to Dallas last week as American shut down their Honolulu call center in November. Even though she has 27 years with American, she has a year and a half to go before she reaches her retirement age of 50. Scared me a little to read this headline, but nevertheless it is still tragic.
DurangoMac From United States of America, joined Dec 2006, 501 posts, RR: 0 Reply 16, posted (3 years 3 weeks 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 33361 times:
JayDub From United States of America, joined Dec 2006, 584 posts, RR: 5 Reply 20, posted (3 years 3 weeks 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 30435 times:
As a former ramper in DFW for another airline...my thoughts are definitely with him. Reminds you just how dangerous ramp work can be...especially in rough weather.
When the weather turns bad in DFW, like it was yesterday, it gets pretty hairy out there. North Texas weather is almost always one extreme or the other. When it got that way, I used to tell my ramp crew: "Forget on-time, slow down, take your time, and we'll do our best to get as close to on-time as possible...we're not risking the safety of ourselves and the aircraft in this mess".
Hope this guy makes as close to a full recovery as possible and I wish him the best.
*edited for spelling
[Edited 2007-01-14 14:19:14]
[Edited 2007-01-14 14:20:02]
"Travel is only glamorous in retrospect." - Paul Theroux
Warren747sp From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 1011 posts, RR: 0 Reply 23, posted (3 years 3 weeks 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 28433 times:
Krisair747 From United States of America, joined Oct 2000, 229 posts, RR: 1 Reply 24, posted (3 years 3 weeks 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 28107 times:
On behalf of U.S Airways, and all of us here in PHL, our hearts go out to our fellow airline "family member".
Open your heart and push the limits
25 MCOflyer: On behalf of my family, we wish this ramper a speedy recovery. MCOflyer
26 ContinentalAUS: From one Texas-sized heart to another, I hope and pray he is doing better and will make it through this.
27 AirportGal: why can't we? I'm on a snowmobile forum, (http://www.snowest.com/fusetalk/ ) and when our "family" experiences a death due to avalanche, there is alw
28 Gh123: You know with all the machinery and movements along with all the noise and sometimes adverse weather - its a wonder there are not more injuries etc on
29 Boston92: My heart will go out to him this evening during my church service. My condolences to his friends and family.
30 Ethau: As a service worker for Norwegian Air Shuttle on OSL Oslo Gardermoen, I regularly pass near aircraft and the working ground staff. Hearing about this
31 FlyDreamliner: I have no idea how to do this. I'll try to figure it out, but if you, or anyone else, have any idea how we can set up an online collection, to help t
32 DeltaJet757: Out of all things to get run over by at the airport other than a plane would probably be a tug (pushback tractor). Considering how heavy they are and
33 MXA318: He and his family will be in my prayers. Hope he recovers quickly.
34 F9Animal: This is truly a very sad story. I send my best wishes to the employee. This is hard reality that the ramp is a very dangerous place. Pushback tractors
37 N839MH: From the Delta DFW ops, our hearts and prayers go out to him and his family, also to all the AA employees who were involved. Several years back, we lo
38 AirEMS: Very sad He and his family will be in my prayers Fly & Work Safe -Carl
39 KangarooMAN: Same goes here from MAN our prayers go out to him and his family Roo
40 Brucek: My prayers and thoughts are with this person and their family. Bruce.
41 Timeair: Godspeed to him from all of his counterparts and airline friends North of the 49th here in Canada....
42 ORDRyan28: you certainly said that correctly. When an aviation disaster like this occurs, it makes us stop and think. What a horrible tragedy he's definitely in
43 LHR777: Best wishes to this poor chap, from all at Load Planning and Control, at OneWorld partner British Airways, LHR.
44 AADC10137: From all employees at LSE American eagle, our thoughts and prayers go out to him and his family..
45 DTWAGENT: For all of us Travel Agents. His is in our thoughts and prayers. My God be with him and his family in this time on need. And my the Lord help him to a
46 Flight7e7: This is a time when the upper crust needs to say "the buck stops here", and put some of that bonus and stock option money back into the company-so ind
47 BigJimFX: I have heard, and this is NOT confirmed... But some of my sources tell me that the ramper has passed. I hope it's not true. But if it is, my thoughts
48 Gkyip: What a horrible tragedy, I dont pray but my thoughts and best wishes go out to him! Hope for a speedy recovery. Gary
49 IsuA380B777: May he recover soon. We will all pray for him.
51 KC135TopBoom: From our sourses here at DFW, it is confirmed, he passed away this morning. The DFW Airport Family extend our condolences to AA and his family.
52 AndrewUber: My God that is terrible. We will keep his family in our prayers. Another thing we ALL can do for this family is TRAIN, TRAIN, TRAIN on ramp safety, an
53 Standby87: Respect Sir - a professional attitude. Have just come back from Fukuoka Airport in Japan and I noticed there were 4 crew on every push-back...
54 Cpharris5514: As I was reading the notes re: the accident, I was constantly keeping him in my thoughts and prayers. Then, I read that he had passed away. My prayers
55 AA777223: I am a subscriber to the Dallas Morning News, but I haven't been able to find a story about this in the paper or on their website. Sad story.
56 AirportGal: I've seen collections done several different ways - someone arranges with the families bank to have an account in the victim's name - people send che
57 JayDub: Has anyone considered contacting Chaplain "DD" Hayes, the Head Chaplain of the DFW Airport Interfaith Chaplaincy? ( http://www.dfwchapel.org/ ) Unfor
58 AirEMS: I don't know if this has ever been discussed on A.Net or not so please don't flame me. In the Air Medical Community FlightWeb is kind of the "big" Air
59 NikonDFW: This is 100% incorrect..He is still hanging on. He underwent 6 hours of surgery earlier today to try and get circulation back into his right leg and
60 Thunder9: A.Netters - As a passenger service employee with AA @ DFW, I have some information that is posted for AA employees to help slow the "rumor mill." I am
61 Sking11: In behalf of myself and fellow UAL rampers here in DEN our prayers are with the ramper and his family. I certainly hope that it is correct that he's s
62 KC135TopBoom: I sure hope you are right, NikonDFW. My sourse is the DFW Airport, not AA, who natuerally would be closer to what is going on. It is not uncommon for
63 FXramper: The ramper hasn't passed, and there is talk on forums of a fund for his family. Source: www.aapilots.com
65 Thunder9: Here's the latest info posted, again with the employee's name edited. The info was updated about 25-30 mins ago. -J 1P ******************************
66 JayDub: From the Fort Worth Star Telegram. http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/16470856.htm
67 Malaysia: UA outsourced its ramp at NRT a while back though. I have drove paymovers, TUG/STEWART & STEVENSEN/INTERNATIONAL etc. The older International Paymove
68 ORDRyan28: Let's cross our fingers and hope for the best. He's certainly in my thoughts and prayers, along with the whole ORD community.
69 Thunder9: Amen to that. Also, here's a couple of updates from Tue, 16Jan... -J 1P *************************************************** 2P UPDATE ON [Name Withhe
70 ORDRyan28: That's good to hear. Come on, buddy, pull through! Let's continue to keep him in our thoughts and prayers.
71 UnitedNRT: Yes, but the United employees of whom I can speak for are very concerned. I never meant ramp service personnel.
72 Thunder9: Updates for 17Jan on the AA Ramper. Not the best news, but it could be worse... -J 1P *************************************************** 2P .UPDATE F
73 FlyInBack: Thanks for providing the updates his condition. This tragedy happend right around when I arrived at DFW for the first time last week. I'll definitely
74 Thunder9: A further update... This past weekend was quiet, with no changes to report. However, at shortly after 0900 CST today (Monday), it was reported that th
75 Brenintw: That is a very good sign -- here's hoping and praying that the improvement continues.
76 A388: That is very good news. My thaughts and prayers are with him and his family. I hope he gets well soon! Regards, A388
77 Thunder9: Last update was today (Tue) @ just after Noon. The AA employee has been resting quietly, and his vital signs are improving further still. Good news so
78 A388: That's a good sign. I really hope he will get well soon. A388
79 BigJimFX: Well Probably not soon. I'm sure there is a long recovery road ahead. I am so glad to hear that things are better. As routine as aviation seems to eve
80 F9Animal: Thanks for the update! I really hope he pulls through.
81 AerospaceFan: I extend my best wishes for a speedy recovery to the injured individual, and I very much hope his family and friends are coping well in the wake of th
82 Mush: very true, a human life is worth more than a ten-minute delay. My thoughts go out to this man and his family. God speed
83 Acey559: I just got hired on at Eagle here in DBQ where I go to college. They told us about this during our training and told us to always be vigilant, especia
84 Jammin: Terrible tragedy. Hope he pulls through soon.
85 AirEMS: I'm still praying and keeping my fingers crossed from Colorado -Carl Any information as far as donations go? I looked at the AAPilot web site but c
86 Thunder9: For those who are still following this thread...Good on Ya! It's been a few days since I've posted updates, but that's because it's been very busy at
87 A388: Thanks for the update Thunder9. That is very good news. I hope he will be fine soon Roger
88 BandA: Thats good news indeed. Thanks for the update!
89 Ethau: This is very good news. A big to everyone supporting him and the medical staff working hard. Yay for soda! Everyone here at OSL DY wish him a speedy r
90 HAWK21M: Sad case.Hope He recovers soon. Aviation & Tarmac are very Dangerious places.One has to be Alert & very cautious all the time. regds MEL
91 Brenintw: Thanks for keeping us updated Thunder, and kudos to AA staff at DTW for keeping everyone informed of the person's condition -- that is a really cool
92 Thunder9: Update time on the AA ramper... Earlier this week (Tue?) he was updated to 'Stable' condition. He is steadily improving. His vital signs are good and
93 BigJimFX: I know I'll be there. Barring any Winter WX alerts or getting called in for De-Icing. Thanks for the updates. I will see about spreading the info arou
94 F9Animal: Thanks for the update! That is great news! I wish I lived in the DFW area.
95 Thunder9: Cool...the info is in this week's DFW People. -J
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