SonicFlyer

Any cargo horror stories? Animals getting lose? Weird happenings? Shenanigans? Etc?


I'll start... my dad went to unload a box of lobsters out of the plane one day and apparently the claw ties had come undone. All of the sudden he felt a very sharp pain as it damn near bit his thumb off in the handle of the box.

Birdsmash

How about finding myself employed by a company that sues its pilots? Does that count?

727CA

Several airlines back, used to carry all sorts of animals all the time. Opened cargo door and there was a male monkey in a large dog carrier just sitting there going to town on himself using his back foot with the opposable toe



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CTRCommander

My paycheck bounced back so hard it gave me a black eye once


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28Gauge

Back in my college days, I was a ramp rat for DL. I was up in the rear bin of a 727 unloading the bags. We sent a pet carrier down first as live animals were always last on/first off. The guy on the ground pulled the pet carrier off the belt loader and set it on the ground as not to bury it with bags on the baggage cart. Well, the nimrod that put the pet carrier on the ground didn't realize that he put it right in front of the exhaust pipe of the belt loader. Needless to say, the kitty cat got gassed...to death. I felt bad for the baggage service guy that had to explain that one.

akfr8r

Brought a bunch of construction supplies to a village in bush Alaska off the Yukon river. Might have been Holy Cross. We managed to get everything offloaded except a 2,000 pound steel job box. I looked at the foreman and asked him when the forklift was going to get to the airport. I’ll admit, I wasn’t shocked when he said they didn’t have one. Typical. No problem, we’ll just unload the tools from the box into the truck and move the empty box by hand. What I didn’t expect was that the guy with the key to the box wouldn’t be there for another day. I told the guy I could either take it back to anchorage, or flip it out the door. He chose the latter. So we somehow managed to slide it onto the door sill and flip it out the back of the 1900, ending up upside down on the ramp, no doubt trashing some of the tools inside. The scary part was when it nearly rocked back into the fuselage on its side. Just another day in bush Alaska. Pretty mild compared to the stuff that happens out there every day, honestly.

pilot0987

The rampers at my old airline forgot to check the rear cargo compartment and the plane flew another day with a casket and body in it.

ocskyguy

Life many years before K4, I flew for Guyana Airways in South America. We would often carry potential pet animals north. Somewhat legal, since we had export certificates, but still something that would never be tolerated now.
About abeam GTK, heading to MIA, I felt something climbing on my leg. After a few excursions from straight and level, I discovered that it was a baby howler monkey. I took a walk back into the main deck and found that one of the monkeys had escaped from his cage and figured out how to open the other cages, emancipating all manner of exotic life to roam free on the plane. When we landed in MIA, we had to close up the plane and have Ag and Animal Services come to round up the suspects and put them back in their cages.

kronan

One time the milk in my catering had turned

METO Guido

Not bad.

The LM went down on the RO's johnson. Was a chorizo in his zipper but it looked pretty real on video. Would have preferred they finished before T/D but it's awkward interrupting these things.