Baggage handler locked in cargo hold during flight from N.C. to Dulles
A baggage handler was unharmed after being locked inside an airplane's cargo area during a 90-minute flight from North Carolina to Northern Virginia Sunday. United Express flight 6060, operated by Mesa Airlines, took off from Charlotte Douglas Airport just before 3 pm Sunday and landed at Dulles on schedule about 1½ hours later. The plane, a 50-seat Embraer 170, rose to 27,000 feet, according to flight records. A United spokeswoman could not say Monday whether the plane's cargo hold was temperature-controlled or pressurised. At some point, workers in Charlotte, N.C., realised there was a possibility that someone was locked in the belly of the airplane and contacted the FAA. The FAA, in turn, alerted officials at Dulles, and emergency responders at Dulles were waiting at the gate. <br/>
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Baggage handler locked in cargo hold during flight from N.C. to Dulles
A baggage handler was unharmed after being locked inside an airplane's cargo area during a 90-minute flight from North Carolina to Northern Virginia Sunday. United Express flight 6060, operated by Mesa Airlines, took off from Charlotte Douglas Airport just before 3 pm Sunday and landed at Dulles on schedule about 1½ hours later. The plane, a 50-seat Embraer 170, rose to 27,000 feet, according to flight records. A United spokeswoman could not say Monday whether the plane's cargo hold was temperature-controlled or pressurised. At some point, workers in Charlotte, N.C., realised there was a possibility that someone was locked in the belly of the airplane and contacted the FAA. The FAA, in turn, alerted officials at Dulles, and emergency responders at Dulles were waiting at the gate. <br/>
