People mover hit the dock at Dulles this afternoon

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP. About 10 years ago, I was on a mobile lounge at Dulles following an international flight that crashed into a truck on the tarmac. People were thrown around and there were injuries. The driver just docked the thing and as normal and yelled at everybody to leave. After people began insisting, airport police, paramedics, and some airport exec showed up. They downplayed the whole thing and clearly were afraid of the liability. Not sure what happened after that, as we were only a bit dazed and not injured and so continued on. The handling of the whole thing but the airport authorities felt super sketchy and made me wonder how often it happened. No one from the airport apologized or seemed to thing that the collusion was a big deal at all.

Op here. That’s kind of interesting in light of the bogus “struck at an angle” statement they came out with after the accident. There was no “angle”, it ran straight into the terminal at full speed. No one from the airport authority has reached out at all.

[Anonymous]

OP, glad you are ok.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, glad you are ok.

Thank you. I was very lucky to have been seated when it happened. Though the bruise on my thigh is gigantic now and it still hurts. I’m on ibuprofen and muscle relaxers still. They help with the pain, but the muscle relaxers make me very sleepy during the day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, glad you are ok.

Thank you. I was very lucky to have been seated when it happened. Though the bruise on my thigh is gigantic now and it still hurts. I’m on ibuprofen and muscle relaxers still. They help with the pain, but the muscle relaxers make me very sleepy during the day.

Good thing the VP hasn't made those pills illegal yet

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/ibuprofen-advil-vance-rfk-jr-maha-tylenol-trump-rcna243760

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP where was DCUM in your notification priority order?

+1

This is why I was questioning OP originally. It seemed like OP would come back with more and more information as if they were hearing it second hand. Probably OP was in a little bit of shock and or had an adrenaline running and that’s why their responses were so odd but also DCUM would not what I would be doing on my flight after such an incident.

You are a weirdo. Go read it on the news, then. You don't have to read OP's post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"mobile lounge ".

What a name

I fly all the time out of Dulles and never knew they had that name. I called them the "moon bus."

I called them the stinky whales.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder if a middle ground is not to have them so packed. That is the absolute worse after a long flight to have to cram in there. If they were like 50% full they would be fine.

If there is a collision, an emptier bus would throw you around too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder if a middle ground is not to have them so packed. That is the absolute worse after a long flight to have to cram in there. If they were like 50% full they would be fine.

If there is a collision, an emptier bus would throw you around too.

Not if everyone was seated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. About 10 years ago, I was on a mobile lounge at Dulles following an international flight that crashed into a truck on the tarmac. People were thrown around and there were injuries. The driver just docked the thing and as normal and yelled at everybody to leave. After people began insisting, airport police, paramedics, and some airport exec showed up. They downplayed the whole thing and clearly were afraid of the liability. Not sure what happened after that, as we were only a bit dazed and not injured and so continued on. The handling of the whole thing but the airport authorities felt super sketchy and made me wonder how often it happened. No one from the airport apologized or seemed to thing that the collusion was a big deal at all.

Op here. That’s kind of interesting in light of the bogus “struck at an angle” statement they came out with after the accident. There was no “angle”, it ran straight into the terminal at full speed. No one from the airport authority has reached out at all.

I honestly would go to the press about this. You should be compensated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"mobile lounge ".

What a name

Well, that was a part of Saarinen’s 1950s vision of the “airport of the future” - they were originally designed to take passengers directly from check-in counters to their plane in a “relaxing atmosphere of a lounge”. You can still see all the original docking areas right behind the airlines’ counters - but that was decades before all the screening we have to go through today. Good summary here: https://www.ashburnmagazine.com/features/mobile-lounges-are-a-unique-part-of-dulles-internationals-past/

It seems like OP was going to their domestic flight - still awful but initially I was thinking it happened after deplaning from a transatlantic flight (the only time when I use them), that would have been a terrible “welcome to America” after an exhausting long flight.

Hope OP does not have any serious issues from the accident and will be compensated for the stress and inconvenience.

Walking to the door from ticket counter and being dropped off into the plane seems not so bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"mobile lounge ".

What a name

Well, that was a part of Saarinen’s 1950s vision of the “airport of the future” - they were originally designed to take passengers directly from check-in counters to their plane in a “relaxing atmosphere of a lounge”. You can still see all the original docking areas right behind the airlines’ counters - but that was decades before all the screening we have to go through today. Good summary here: https://www.ashburnmagazine.com/features/mobile-lounges-are-a-unique-part-of-dulles-internationals-past/

It seems like OP was going to their domestic flight - still awful but initially I was thinking it happened after deplaning from a transatlantic flight (the only time when I use them), that would have been a terrible “welcome to America” after an exhausting long flight.

Hope OP does not have any serious issues from the accident and will be compensated for the stress and inconvenience.

Walking to the door from ticket counter and being dropped off into the plane seems not so bad.

It's physically impossible now with as many flights and people flying. A system like this doesn't scale past a certain point.

[Anonymous]

This is how we returned from Paris. Straight from the plane to the terminal.

[Anonymous]

And it happened again. Second time in a month. Thankfully, no injuries.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/mobile-lounge-collision-dulles/4018361/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And it happened again. Second time in a month. Thankfully, no injuries.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/mobile-lounge-collision-dulles/4018361/

Two moving vehicles seems much more in the realm of "things happen", versus hitting a building, essentially.

[Anonymous]

WTOP also reports one hit a United luggage cart yesterday.