Lufthansa A321 and Loganair EMB-145 pushes at Manchester

A vid of me pushing a Lufthansa A321 off stand 69R at EGCC, followed by some world-class moaning from me and colleague Adam Davidson who was headsetting it. What we were complaining about was the fact that the in-hold cargo roller system was not working and so we had to manually push everything off it, over the immobile rubber rollers which were acting as brakes on the pallets, then push the onload back onto it over those broken rollers. I started working on this flight at about 13.50 and ended up staying back until about 17.00 to push it out. The tug is then driven to stand 4 to drop off the towbar and then to stand five to park up and you can see how bouncy the tug is from the camera shake:

Loganair Embraer EMB-145 pushing off stand 16 then doing a 180 to pull onto TRP 5 on taxiway Juliet, headsetted by colleague Martin Tyman, followed by me taking the tug to an Aer Lingus ATR-72 to connect to that for another pushback just prior to me finishing for the day. You can see from these two pushbacks, how it is much easier to see where you are going when pushing bigger aeroplanes with more ground clearance under them, smaller aeroplanes obscure the taxiway line unless you are turning. You can see Martin stretching his back after the disconnect of the tug, and that's from that dodgy Lufthansa A321 flight the day before where we had to push all the pallets in the lower deck hold:

Edited June 15, 20223 yr by Chock