{"id":346805,"date":"2026-01-11T06:18:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T20:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/air-canada-takeoff-baggage-handler-trapped-hold\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T06:18:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T20:18:44","slug":"air-canada-plane-taxied-for-takeoff-with-baggage-handler-trapped-in-cargo-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=346805","title":{"rendered":"Air Canada Plane Taxied For Takeoff With Baggage Handler Trapped In Cargo Hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In December, a <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255386\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/baggage-handler\/\"  >baggage handler<\/a><\/span> got an unexpected ride in the belly of an <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255682\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-canada-rouge\/\"  >Air Canada Rouge<\/a><\/span> Airbus A319. The aircraft had started to push back before it was realised that the additional passenger was in the cargo hold. The flight was scheduled to operate a domestic flight from <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"51566\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/toronto\/\"  >Toronto<\/a><\/span>, Ontario, to Moncton, New Brunswick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A baggage handler&#8217;s unexpected ride raises safety concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[940,6411,396,476,8789,713],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-canada","category-air-canada-rouge","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-baggage-handler","category-canada"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=346805"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346979,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346805\/revisions\/346979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}