article_snippet.sent: It was later revealed that the unnamed employee of airline contractor Menzies Aviation had dozed off inside LA-bound plane at the end of someone shift and only awakened when it was in the air, about 14 minutes into Alaska Airlines Flight 448 bound for Los Angeles.
article_snippet.sent: This is the moment an Alaska Airlines baggage handler was pulled from the cargo hold after falling asleep.
article_snippet.sent: : This is the baggage handler who fell asleep aboard the Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle to Los Angeles on Monday .
article_snippet.sent: Upon exiting, the worker told authorities the worker had fallen asleep,' the baggage handlder said.
article_snippet.sent: The worker, who was part of a four-person crew, started the worker shift at 5am Monday morning and was scheduled to finish work at 2.30pm, according to the baggage handlder.
article_snippet.sent: After the team was done loading all the luggage onto the plane in which passengers could hear the banging from the cargo hold, the leader of a four-person crew noticed that one of the leader of the crew staffers was nowhere to be found.
article_snippet.sent: the leader of the crew tried calling and texting the leader of the crew but the leader of the crew did not respond, leading the leader of the crew supervisor to believe that the leader of the crew had gone home at the end of the shift, reported KOMO News.
article_snippet.sent: the baggage handlder says the baggage handlder is investigating the situation.
article_snippet.sent: Alaska Airlines is investigating how the leader of the crew managed to fall asleep before the LA-bound flight took off .