Commercial Fixed Wing
Distraction; Workload; Situational Awareness; Communication Breakdown
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Ground Event / Encounter Other / Unknown
General None Reported / Taken
Human Factors; Procedure
The ramp agent who was unloading the front pits of the aircraft put a scanner on the belt loader after he had finished unloading bags. He then threw some mail behind the scanner. The on-line runner who was collecting the bags on the other end of the belt loader turned the belt off. He then got in his tug to drive away. Between the agent in the pit and the on-line runner neither secured the scanner. The scanner got caught under the tire of the cart; scraped the ground and caught fire near the aircraft.
A Ramp Agent reported a portable baggage scanner left on the belt loader after unloading bags. The scanner fell from the belt loader as the tug was driven away and caught fire after it was caught under a cart tire near the aircraft.