Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ground crew
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As he was saying that, I looked out the window and saw the ground crew taking the luggage off the plane.
▪ Graf von Kageneck is helped into his parachute harness by his ground crew on a Sicilian airfield in May 1941.
▪ The ground crew can now work to refuel, clean the squashed bugs off the bubble and put the aircraft to bed.
▪ The ground crew got Patterson out in a tearing rush.
WordNet
ground crew
n. the crew of technicians and mechanics who service aircraft on the ground [syn: ground-service crew]
Usage examples of "ground crew".
Note the fueling trucks right on the ramp, and this aircraft has ground crew tinkering with it.
The ground crew guided it through the roof to the floor of the cave.
By the time Annie and the others climbed out of the shuttle, an enormous crane already towered overhead and a ground crew was already unclamping pallets of cargo.