I have serious problems with the idea of being "trapped" in a perfectly good airplane that's sitting on the ground. I would have personally volunteered to risk life and limb to hop down to the ground and go find a stepladder to borrow from maintenance.

Call it out of the box thinking, but is it really that far out of the box?
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- Tom S.

"Never trust and engineer who doesn't carry a pocketknife."