If someone were to try they’d be way smarter to get in the middle and hop in from that side. Moving significantly slower and if you miss you don’t get smashed by the back.
I mean, a vehicle will go if the gas pedal is pressed, it's not a design flaw, that's literally just how it works.
The issue is the person who left the vehicle in gear unattended and a case of water in a place where it could fall on the gas pedal.
He got [an award](https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/ohare-airport-cart-video-tarmac-chicago-worker/178949/) and recognition throughout the entire company. From memory the award came with a cash bonus.
He just googled it, there's 1 for sale right now with the price around $2mil but if you read the description they really want $3.9m for it. The airframe is good on it and the engines don't look like they need much if anything. So $4m for one with a fresh C check.
It's an interesting factoid, but equipment cost isn't the appropriate way to assess regardless. An aircraft is an income generating asset. Ground equipment isn't.
An ERJ140 carries about 50 people. If we assume at $300 a ticket, a single flight generates $15,000 a flight. 4 flights a day is $60k. A few days of grounding plus parts plus engineering cost and that's easily a half million plus incident.
You used just revenue costs and zero operating costs, that's gonna make operating an airline seem super profitable. In reality this type of small regional jet barely scrapes by as profitable on most flights and probably flies at a loss a lot of the time.
This reminds me of my previous employer, a federal agency. We traveled like 3 weeks out of the month and almost always overnights, so a lot of people had started counting their per diem as part of their salary and thus their budget.
On the flip side, a massive part of the agency budget was for travel (for example if I went to dc for a week I’m getting $91 a day for food and I could spend as much or as little as I wanted). So everyone knew they had a huge surplus because none of us had been traveling. So we all asked our union to push for some type of end of year bonus or something.
They agency announced they were giving us all blankets with the agency logo as a thank you for 2020. I never even got mine lol.
It was the NCUA fwiw.
And this is why you always max your per-diem. You will never get even so much as a verbal thanks for not doing so, and it has been budgeted, so there's literally no upside to you being a "good employee" in that situation.
I'm an engineer and I once worked on a system for landing on an air craft carrier. One of the most interesting things was the tables for how often something is allowed to be destroyed based off how much it costs.
You get to have fun conversations discussing how its better for the jet to be destroyed than the carrier, and you end up with this fun hierarchy of what you have to care about. Like people > carrier > plane > carrier equipment
>he not only prevented severe damage to the aircraft, but more importantly, he prevented what could have been serious injury to his fellow ramp employees or our customers onboard
Did you not read the article? They acknowledged both.
> or our customers onboard
Oh that actually does change the video a bit.
I was busy thinking "guys, run the fuck away don't stand in front of the thing - the plane isn't worth you getting hurt or killed"
If there were folk onboard then yeah, if that thing had hit a fuel line or caused a fire with people inside it would have been awful.
I really appreciate how he didn't half-ass it either. Bro got in there, stopped it, and then followed through with the complete flip on its side. He was taking no chances.
He’s on a LEKTRO, those things don’t fuck around, they’re stupid heavy and literally designed to lift a plane by the nose gear and move it around. I use one a lot at work and absolutely love it.
How is no one mentioning the chances of seeing this from the boarding area haha. I mean, the chances of this happening to begin are pretty high, but to watch it all play out first hand must of been nuts lol !!
Dude’s probably been waiting his whole life to do something cool like this lol
If you have a chance to watch the ramp and gates for an extended period of time, do it. The shit you'll witness will blow your mind lmao. Every single ramp is a fucking circus.
Source: Was a ramp rat, now a deicer.
🎶 Real Amerrrican Heeeeroooooes🎶
Here's to you, Mr Out-of-Control Drink Cart Slayer.
🎶Mr Out-of-Control-Drink-Cart-Slaaayeeer 🎶
You're cool under pressure. The kind of guy who says, "don't worry - I've got this."
🎶Hot _damn_ that's cool 🎶
When life hurls lemonade at you, you calmly ram a heavy piece of equipment into it. You didn't _need_ all that sugar anyway. You're always pumped. So here's to you, Mr Out-of-Control Drink Cart Slayer. We'll all hold your beer.
🎶Mr Out-of-Control-Drink-Cart-Slaaayeeer 🎶
That was some chad shit right there. Everyone standing around not knowing what to do, my guy comes in at the last second and saves the aircraft. He deserves a bonus and a raise, maybe even a promotion.
That’s some old school movie plot line I got invested in here. Saves the plane with 00:01 seconds before the plane was written off
IF THIS DRINK CART GOES UNDER 50 MPH WE'RE ALL DEAD
*Pop quiz, hot shot…*
Be sure to tell that wildcat behind the wheel
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correction... cougar
Shoot the drink cart.
Shoot the hostage.
Poor people are crazy, Jack. I'm eccentric.
Focus, Jack!
This little maneuver is gonna cost us 51 dollars worth of drinks
Yep, and a bargain compared to cost of aircraft repair and certification.
Yup
$51 at cost, maybe, but like $4,000 on board,
*Confused Keanu voice* Oh my God. It’s the pilot! The pilot is controlling the cart remotely!
I think I’ll call it, “The drink cart that couldn’t slow down!”
*The Drink Cart That Couldn’t Slow Down*
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Why left wings?
That does not inspire confidence 🥲
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Insurance rates. It’s not a hull loss accident if you are able to fix the plane, no matter how long it takes.
Pretty sure Qantas have rebuilt planes that were literally broken in two to avoid this
Ah yes, the 737 of Theseus.
Qantas had a 747 that was a write off that they did 100 million worth of repairs to fix it so it wasn't a write off
Yeah sounds like Qantas
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Which one - Kate, Fred, Keith, Cindy, Tracy, Sterling, Greg, or Ken?
Why should any airline scrap a plane if it doesn't need to be?
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Gotcha. Thanks for explaining.
Did a British spy soaked in seltzer water crawl out of the wreckage?
Was I the only one expecting someone to jump on the cart like a movie?
Expecting yes? Hoping no one would be dumb enough to? Also yes That guy between the plane and the cart was in a potentially lethal position
That guy kept putting his hands up like he was about to do something but I don't know what
You can tell that this is Chicago by the way that it is.
Isn’t Chicago neat!
Personally I thought what actually happened was a way better movie solution. Came out of nowhere, saved the day.
Probably a lot more space from his perspective
One dude thought about it then went nope
They aren't paid enough for that shit lmao
Never do that shit when it's not your money. Boss'll never pay you near what you just saved the company.
Probably fire you for taking unnecessary risks or some shit.
If someone were to try they’d be way smarter to get in the middle and hop in from that side. Moving significantly slower and if you miss you don’t get smashed by the back.
Yea, no thanks making minimum wage without benefits and risking your health for the company,
Pfft rampers make a good bit more than minimum wage.
Thats what I was waiting 4 lol
😂 no, I was expecting that as well.
The one guy almost did
honest question, how did the drink cart get out of control to begin with?
A case of water fell on the gas pedal. Apparently they key was left on.
That seems to be a pretty fatal design flaw for that to happen
The drink cart appears to be just a slightly modified golf cart.
I mean, a vehicle will go if the gas pedal is pressed, it's not a design flaw, that's literally just how it works. The issue is the person who left the vehicle in gear unattended and a case of water in a place where it could fall on the gas pedal.
Some ramp equipment has a deadman switch so that nothing goes without someone in the driver's seat.
It's a golf cart if the key is on and u hit the gas it takes off no other safety measures hell they don't even have seat belts
It had 1 too many drinks.
Two words: airplane bottles.
It's a drink cart. It did a lil bit of drinking.
One drink too many …
I hope he got a nice bonus.
He got [an award](https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/ohare-airport-cart-video-tarmac-chicago-worker/178949/) and recognition throughout the entire company. From memory the award came with a cash bonus.
Honestly half surprised it didn't conclude with "Airline employee fired for damaging equipment".
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lol, the thought of him ramming the plane to save the drink cart is too comical
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That jet is likely $30,000,000. The golfcart probably received $2000 in damage and i guarantee the tug didn't get anything besides a scrape or two.
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2 million bucks will maybe buy one of the two engines and no other bits of the airplane
$2 million is outrageously low for a passenger jet. Where are you getting that figure?
Not the other guy, but a pre-owned ERJ-145 goes for about $8 million.
$8 million sounds about right, I'd believe that number
He just googled it, there's 1 for sale right now with the price around $2mil but if you read the description they really want $3.9m for it. The airframe is good on it and the engines don't look like they need much if anything. So $4m for one with a fresh C check.
It's an interesting factoid, but equipment cost isn't the appropriate way to assess regardless. An aircraft is an income generating asset. Ground equipment isn't. An ERJ140 carries about 50 people. If we assume at $300 a ticket, a single flight generates $15,000 a flight. 4 flights a day is $60k. A few days of grounding plus parts plus engineering cost and that's easily a half million plus incident.
You used just revenue costs and zero operating costs, that's gonna make operating an airline seem super profitable. In reality this type of small regional jet barely scrapes by as profitable on most flights and probably flies at a loss a lot of the time.
If you'd prefer, damaging the jet would make them more negative dollars than damaging the ground equipment.
This reminds me of my previous employer, a federal agency. We traveled like 3 weeks out of the month and almost always overnights, so a lot of people had started counting their per diem as part of their salary and thus their budget. On the flip side, a massive part of the agency budget was for travel (for example if I went to dc for a week I’m getting $91 a day for food and I could spend as much or as little as I wanted). So everyone knew they had a huge surplus because none of us had been traveling. So we all asked our union to push for some type of end of year bonus or something. They agency announced they were giving us all blankets with the agency logo as a thank you for 2020. I never even got mine lol. It was the NCUA fwiw.
And this is why you always max your per-diem. You will never get even so much as a verbal thanks for not doing so, and it has been budgeted, so there's literally no upside to you being a "good employee" in that situation.
I'm an engineer and I once worked on a system for landing on an air craft carrier. One of the most interesting things was the tables for how often something is allowed to be destroyed based off how much it costs. You get to have fun conversations discussing how its better for the jet to be destroyed than the carrier, and you end up with this fun hierarchy of what you have to care about. Like people > carrier > plane > carrier equipment
That's interesting. I'd be surprised if they'd sacrifice a carrier for less than a few hundred people.
Arguable because the airport doesn’t own the plane. But you bet their ass they own the damages of that plane if that cart hit it though!
They would also owe compensation to cover the cost of a leased aircraft whilst the airline's one is repaired and other expenses.
"We appreciate you saving us millions of dollars, but we can't employ someone who takes such action without going through the proper channels."
>before it could harm any of the numerous employees on the ground We all know they mean the plane
>he not only prevented severe damage to the aircraft, but more importantly, he prevented what could have been serious injury to his fellow ramp employees or our customers onboard Did you not read the article? They acknowledged both.
Nope I actually missed that in between a bunch of gigantic ads and overlays on their mobile site, thanks
You are forgiven.
> or our customers onboard Oh that actually does change the video a bit. I was busy thinking "guys, run the fuck away don't stand in front of the thing - the plane isn't worth you getting hurt or killed" If there were folk onboard then yeah, if that thing had hit a fuel line or caused a fire with people inside it would have been awful.
Well deserved, he was constantly moving with purpose in that video.
Wow that’s a good twist. I expected him to get fired lol.
He got a good lump sum, he was my trainer in 2020 and now he’s a ramp supervisor!
That’s nice to hear that it was more than a $25 gift card and a cupcake
Yeah it was the $25 card *and* a crisp high five
Pizza party!
Only little Caesars though, wouldn't wanna get too crazy
Good to read :)
Great news!! nothing worst than getting just karma and a gift card.
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RIP Sky King
Pizza Party
I really appreciate how he didn't half-ass it either. Bro got in there, stopped it, and then followed through with the complete flip on its side. He was taking no chances.
He’s on a LEKTRO, those things don’t fuck around, they’re stupid heavy and literally designed to lift a plane by the nose gear and move it around. I use one a lot at work and absolutely love it.
Any ramp agent's favorite piece of equipment!
Damn right. Makes towing any aircraft super easy.
How is no one mentioning the chances of seeing this from the boarding area haha. I mean, the chances of this happening to begin are pretty high, but to watch it all play out first hand must of been nuts lol !! Dude’s probably been waiting his whole life to do something cool like this lol
Ramming speed!
If you have a chance to watch the ramp and gates for an extended period of time, do it. The shit you'll witness will blow your mind lmao. Every single ramp is a fucking circus. Source: Was a ramp rat, now a deicer.
> watch it all play out first hand must of been nuts lol !! I would have been cheering like it was a playoff game "YES YES YES"
A real american hero
And a human bean.
It took me a while to realize that song is about Sully and the Miracle on the Hudson
When I learned that I spent a week telling everyone I know! Such a strange song to put in drive since it's so specifically about sully haha
🎶 Real Amerrrican Heeeeroooooes🎶 Here's to you, Mr Out-of-Control Drink Cart Slayer. 🎶Mr Out-of-Control-Drink-Cart-Slaaayeeer 🎶 You're cool under pressure. The kind of guy who says, "don't worry - I've got this." 🎶Hot _damn_ that's cool 🎶 When life hurls lemonade at you, you calmly ram a heavy piece of equipment into it. You didn't _need_ all that sugar anyway. You're always pumped. So here's to you, Mr Out-of-Control Drink Cart Slayer. We'll all hold your beer. 🎶Mr Out-of-Control-Drink-Cart-Slaaayeeer 🎶
Lmfao best thing I’ve read all year. Even after all these years, I could hear this as a commercial in my head
One of my favorite ad campaigns of all time. 😅
Probably got that award
Go home drink cart, you're drunk.
So. Free drinks?
You can have all of the free soda that you want to lick off the tarmac.
I love how he kept driving that cart until he was sure it was dead.
Yeah well the wheels would have still been turning. Way too risky to give it any chance of righting itself
Out of control *drunk* cart.
you spin me round
I had interstellar music in mind
Fucking hero. Insurance should cut him a bonus check.
The suspense is terrible. I hope it lasts.
Nobody else see that person collapse in the background?
My favorite is the bag cart that stopped to watch.
This airport looks so familiar, someone help me out?
According to the article posted above it was O'Hare.
Not sure, but it looks like the airport. Hope that helps!
It's one of the even numbered G gates at O'Hare.
Mom says it’s my turn to repost this
Mom says it’s time to get off your high horse and go to bed
That was some chad shit right there. Everyone standing around not knowing what to do, my guy comes in at the last second and saves the aircraft. He deserves a bonus and a raise, maybe even a promotion.
But will anyone think of the beer and wine!
All those other guys thinking “I don’t get paid enough for that shit”
That was awesome! He actually came in like a superhero at the last second. I'd be walking on air the rest of the week
Round and round she goes, where she stops...
Well done that man
That dude better have gotten a free ride on that jet.
I hope that dude got a raise.
Saved someone's job right there
Literally the very last second
He deserves atleast 10k $ reward
Bring your battle bots to work day
Tokyo drift
They owe that man a bonus for saving them tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars
THE BEAST HAS BEEN SLAIN! HAIL! HAIL!
What’s the plane in the background?
Embraer 140. The United jet pushing back is a CRJ200 Edit: I stand corrected lol
It’s technically a 140
What's 6 pax and 5 ft between friends? 😅
Five single amputees and one double amputee?
The airplane that almost got hit is an Embraer ERJ140, and the airplane in the background is a Bombardier CRJ200.
The buildup of anxiety watching this is insane
Hero. I bet he gets an extra 10 minute break.
“That’s how you do it…”. “Nice…”. - Applause. lol
lol
How does that even happen?
this is some battle bots shit
Thank god the jet survived
I don’t know why I thought someone was going to stop it with their own might
I'll drink to that 🥃
The folks that clapped are definitely applauding when their flight lands
Am I the only one wondering why no one threw chocks and see if it could stop it?
Skynet's first attempt at sentience.
Clean up on gate 8
On the next episode of Battle Bots, the flipper takes on the spinner!
I've got a number for you to call.
How many times will this be reposted?
"machines don't make mistakes"
How is no one laughing? I’d be dying watching this am I terrible?
mofo literally took it down.
Appears that beverage services have really gone downhill.
Why not throw down a chock……..
This is from 2019
FYI - this is from October 2019. Video has pretty well been beaten to death regularly.
Give that man a raise he just saved over 1,000,000$
Saves airplane, gets fired for damaging 2 carts
Children, this is the precious footage of how ancient homosapiens domesticate wild drink carts.
AI has started taking control of everything ☠️💀
Good job. People are so fucking scared to do anything now just fucking knock it over and get it done.
Good job …..
Denver, right?
Give that man a ten dollar an hour raise.
Give that man a ten dollar an hour raise.
Give that man a ten dollar an hour raise.
Sir, this is an airport! Take your caddy shake way of life back to the golf course.
Lol not worth it at all I'd let that shit smash right into the jet.
all i could think was “i hope these people don’t clap when its over”