When you read a gruesome story on a polite service, and it sources a story on another polite service that still doesn’t give you the information you want—the gory stuff—you continue digging. The story in question here is a FlightAware one titled Frontier plane kills fence-jumping pedestrian during Denver takeoff. Its source is a story on AOL titled Frontier plane kills fence-jumping pedestrian during Denver takeoff. That one opens with pointage to a @DENAirport post on X that says,
Emergency crews responded to the scene and bussed passengers to the terminal. 231 souls were on board. Emergency response and investigation are ongoing. The NTSB has been notified. Runway 17L will remain closed while the investigation is conducted. 2/2.
The story continues with this:
The Airbus A321 had begun accelerating down the runway for takeoff when the pilots reported to air traffic controllers that they’d hit someone, officials said. The pilots aborted takeoff as smoke began filling the cabin, and passengers evacuated the plane via slides, Frontier Airlines said in a statement to USA TODAY. The identity of the pedestrian was not immediately released.
The hanging question then is “How?”
Well, below the @DENAirport post is a comment by @SteveMRush pointing to a story on PYOK headlined, Horrific Accident at Denver Airport As Person is Sucked into Engine of Frontier Airlines Plane as its Speeding Down Runway For Takeoff. The author of that one is Mateusz Maszczynski. And therein lies another story: about the author.
PYOK stands for Paddle Your Own Kangaroo, and is at paddleyourownkanoo.com. Its About page is, like everything else at the domain, by Mateusz Masczcynski. (Took a few tries to write that correctly from memory. Need to keep stretching those neurons.) There is only one of him, but he occasionally writes in the plural:
It all started back in 2017 when I managed to achieve my dream yet again. The same dream as yours; to become a flight attendant.
We devote huge amounts of time, effort and money to achieve this dream. The world of cabin crew recruitment is tough and ultra-competitive. Getting through this ruthless process can sometimes seem like an impossible task.
That’s certainly what I felt when I was knocked back time after time by airline recruiters. I didn’t know what I was doing wrong but I was determined to learn from my mistakes.
paddleyourownkanoo.com was borne out the information and knowledge I gained in achieving my dream. This works – I’ve been invited to numerous cabin crew Assessment Days and I’ve been offered jobs from a number of major international airlines.
Today, I continue to send applications and attend Assessment Day’s. My mission – to help you through the process. There’s no secret, checklist formula or 100% guaranteed promise. But I hope that what you read here will prepare you for your journey.
Cabin crew recruitment is never going to be easy but I hope the PYOK website helps you on your journey!
And that’s not his only thing. There’s also Crew Insider (“the airline industry explained”), Cabin Crew Forum (“Demystifying the ultra competitive world of cabin crew recruitment”), Points and Miles, Offers, accounts on Facebook and Xitter, and a newsletter. I just followed and subscribed to all of them.
The only bummer, at least for me, is that even PYOK’s privacy page comes with a lot of tracking. Of course, that’s typical of most websites, and the focus of my most persistent Quixoticism.
Anyway, if you love flying as much as I do, check PYOK out.
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