ground crew
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More than 100 other pilots, flight attendants and ground crew said farewell on the tarmac or greeted them when they landed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026
They drove off, giving one last look at the plane as the ground crew scurried around, readying it for the next day’s drop.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2025
“I don’t want to say this on the frequency with the pilot monitoring, but it looks like the wheels are partially out,” another says, suggesting that the ground crew be alerted.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2024
It normally takes the ground crew several minutes to either hook up the passenger boarding bridge or put boarding stairs in place.
From BBC • Sep. 28, 2024
At first, the shocked ground crew waiting back at the intermediate airfield had no way of knowing who’d been killed until the surviving aircraft returned.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
