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Fuel Truck Stages Standoff With Plane - News Story - WCTI New Bern

CARTERET COUNTY -- It was a standoff that could have had explosive repercussions. It was a standoff that a local business owner described as "regrettable."Southern Air at MRH owner Ryan Segrave said that despite the possible explosive situation, he doesn't think safety was an issue when an employee of his purposely used a jet fuel truck to block the exit of a running plane.Pitting jet fuel against spinning propellers was a standoff that was created over just $85 -- a facility fee that all planes are charged whenever they land at an airport.The Ford truck with a fuel tank as its payload sat about 20 feet in front of the whirring propellers of a Beechcraft Super King Air 200, as shown in video and the accompanying picture. The plane seats 11, according to flightaware.com.A Southern Air at MRH employee positioned the truck Sunday morning to enforce the airport facility fee. The plane's pilot was trying to fly off and avoid the facility fee for the second time in a week, Segrave said.Despite Segrave's take on the situation, at least one pilot disagrees with his take on the level of safety of such a maneuver."When you park 1,200 gallons of jet fuel in front of a plane, it only takes common sense to know that it's a dangerous situation," said a locally-based corporate pilot, who did not want to leave his name. "It was incredibly unsafe."Southern Air at MRH runs ground operations for Michael J. Smith Field, the airport serving Beaufort and Morehead City.Denard Harris, after stepping off the plane Sunday, watched as the truck -- with red stickers reading "flammable" -- was wheeled in front of the plane.Harris called the sight "frightening.""We were definitely shocked at how close the truck was to the plane," Harris said.But Segrave said safety was not compromised because blocks, called "chocks," were on either side of the plane's front wheel, limiting the plane's movement.Harris ended up paying the fee himself, allowing the plane to leave.Ken Lohr -- chairman of the Beaufort-Morehead City Airport Authority, which owns the airport -- said he is "disappointed visitors would be treated like this."Lohr said it's Southern Air at MRH that makes the rules on the ground, not the airport authority.The plane is owned by Sky High Air of Orangeburg, S.C., according to flightaware.com. That pilot, Chad McLeod, did not return a calls for comment.Safety risk or not, Sunday's situation has propelled a change in policy for Southern Air. If pilots refuse to pay a fee in the future, employees at Southern Air will call police instead of intervening, Segrave said.