FedEx inquiry after two staff get locked in cargo bay for entire flight
By David Kaminski-Morrow

Freight operator FedEx has opened an inquiry after two employees were
transported in the freight hold of an aircraft between its Paris Charles de
Gaulle cargo hub and Vienna.

The company confirms that the incident occurred on 30 March and involved a
flight operated by one of its contracting partners, although it declines to
identify the carrier.

But a spokesman for FedEx in Paris says that the two staff members - for
unknown reasons - were shut in the hold of the aircraft, said to have been
an ATR 72, and transported on a service to the Austrian capital.

"They were not injured," he says. "But we have no extra information. There
is an internal inquiry being done at FedEx in Paris."
FedEx established its European hub at Charles de Gaulle in 1999.

 

makes me wonder if these two were part of the "known shipper" program

 

Or part of the "known handler". Many of the rampers that worked our ramp prior to 9/11 are gone - cheering to the WTCs falling might have had something to do with that!

 

That has to suck - Go to work in Paris and wake up in Vienna

 

Got to check for those guys at cdg, you never know...

 

Heck, I do that all the time, go to work in MEM, wake up on final someplace else!

 

That makes we warm all over knowing that my confiscating my toothpaste in Mempho the other day, security is on it's toes and we are all just a little bit safer. Safer, but with a bad case of dog a-- breath.

 

pre 9/11 we had a guy in a 747 come to the top deck a few hours into the flight from ANC to NRT. I think that post 9/11 he would have been greeted by an axe to the skull!