Passengers who missed their Wizz Air flight were filmed running across the tarmac after their aircraft which had already pushed back. Via A Fly Guy’s Cabin Crew Lounge:
“How stupid do you have to be to do this and think it will actually work!!!
This won’t get you on the flight, it will get you arrested or worse, ingested into an engine. “
There’s a reason passengers are kept behind doors and glass, and not wandering around on the ramp:
- Taxiing aircraft are heavy machinery with poor visibility.
- Jet blast and prop wash can knock down or injure people.
- Ground vehicles are moving in tight spaces with limited margin for surprise obstacles.
There was a 2016 Madrid incident where a Ryanair passenger jumps from the jet bridge and literally runs after the aircraft as it’s taxiing. And a 2023 Canberra case where a woman runs onto the tarmac to try to flag down a departing QantasLink E190.
And there was recent Wizz Air coverage about passengers being held on the tarmac at London Luton over a falsely accused stolen phone, but that’s people stuck on the aircraft, not chasing it. Personally I can imagine running away from having to fly Wizz Air, not going through all of this effort to actually spend time onboard.
If passengers can get onto the tarmac, a door was left unsecured. Staff didn’t stop them. Either way, this is never going to end well for the passengers and it’s never going to mean (1) making the flight, and (2) actually traveling as-planned.
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