PLEASE READ: if I were to type a description of this video, it would be very long and drawn-out, so please feel free to ask me any questions about my job and my responsibilities and I will answer them. Thanks!

NOTE: While I am an avid planespotter myself and love photographing and video-recording airplanes, I hope this video goes to show how hard us ground crews work to keep these aircraft flying. If I may add, it was -7°F ( approx. -21°C ) on this particular day with a windchill of -16°F ( approx -26°C ). While I was properly equipped with the appropriate clothing, facemasks, goggles, gloves, and boots, after a while the body begins to sweat and that sweat begins to freeze onto your skin. It's also not very easy to be doing a dangerous job in the extreme cold with new guys who are not used to the elements consistently complaining about it. You can't just tell them to go home, you need the help to maintain the plane on schedule and turn it around on time. I hope you all understand how fun, but how stressful, this awesome job can be.

As many of you know, I'm an employee at Chicago's O'Hare International / Int'l Airport ( ICAO = KORD / IATA = ORD ). I bought a GoPro HD Hero 3 White Edition camera on sale during my lu nch break on "Black Friday," the crazy sales event after Thanksgiving Day, and decided to wear it during my job offloading and loading cargo planes at the Southeast Air Cargo Ramp at O'Hare.

Here, the video starts with me marshaling in Singapore Airlines Cargo aircraft 9V-SFM, a Boeing 747-412/SCD ( cn 32898 / 1333 ) arriving as Singapore Airlines Cargo 7969 Heavy ( SIA7969 / SQC7969 / Singapore Airlines Cargo Flight 7969 / Singapore International Airlines Flight 7969 ) from Dallas - Fort Worth / Ft. Worth International / Int'l Airport ( KDFW / DFW ) in Texas by way of Hong Kong - Chep Lap Kok International / Int'l Airport in Southeast Asia with a fuel stop at Anchorage - Ted Stevens International / Int'l Airport ( PANC / ANC ). I was standing atop a JBT AeroTech Commander 30 aircraft cargo loader, or as some people call it, an elevator or bridge.

I stopped recording after offloading the rear belly of the aircraft because the front belly door wouldn't open. It was frozen shut from the extreme cold the aircraft had experienced during the flight from DFW to ORD! You can see me trying to get it open, but I gave up after several attempts because I could damage the locking mechanism and that would be very bad and potentially catastrophic to the structural integrity and pressurized interior of the aircraft during flight.

SQC7969 Flight Information for Monday, Janiary 27th, 2014:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/9V...

9V-SFM Flight History: http://www.flightaware.com/live/fligh...

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joseg2143 IS AN EMPLOYEE AT CHICAGO O'HARE INT'L AIRPORT AND A MEMBER OF THE ORD AIRPORT WATCH PROGRAM WITH THE BENSENVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT, CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT, CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF AVIATION, AND OTHER STATE, LOCAL, & FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES.
© Jose Guillen 2014

Recorded with a GoPro HD Hero 3 White Edition on Monday, January 27th, 2014.