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IHeartMedia Aviation Expert Jay Ratliff · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: Fifty five k the talk station, A twenty nine to
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Speaker 1: fifty five KRCD talk station. Friday E iHeartMedia aviation expert
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Speaker 1: Jay Rattle of every week here in the fifty five
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Speaker 1: Parse Morning Show again appointment listening, regular guests, and I
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Speaker 1: always look forward to it. And lo and behold, what
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Speaker 1: an amazing list of topics. Jay Rattliff, Welcome back, my friend.
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Speaker 1: We're never going to get through them all.
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Speaker 2: I held back.
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Speaker 3: I didn't want to, like, you know, knock get totally
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Speaker 3: out of your chair.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, lot's going on.
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Speaker 1: A whole lot now because there's somebody I'm just going
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Speaker 1: to dive straight towards. Since we are in the middle
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Speaker 1: of the government shutdown, I think some people can keep
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Speaker 1: forgetting that. But the governments still shut down, which means
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Speaker 1: some people aren't getting paid, like TSA agents. I guess
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Speaker 1: the lines are getting longer. You reported that was it
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Speaker 1: last week? Three hour lines?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and we're seeing that in Orlando or Chicago. JFK.
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Speaker 3: Even New Orleans has has seen some lines two hours long,
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Speaker 3: and we're getting we're seeing hundreds of agents just quit.
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Speaker 3: The paycheck that they were supposed to get did not.
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Speaker 3: Was one's day the fourth, so like eight days ago.
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Speaker 3: And you know, these individuals, even though they're governed employees, Brian,
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Speaker 3: you know, they don't make a ton of money. So
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Speaker 3: you're talking about how long can anybody go by missing
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Speaker 3: a paycheck? And you're expected to show up and work
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Speaker 3: and get paid at some later future date that you
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Speaker 3: have no idea when. And just like with the air
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Speaker 3: traffic controllers when they when they weren't getting paid, a
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Speaker 3: lot of them opted to do other jobs that they
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Speaker 3: could get paid because look, they got to put food
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Speaker 3: on the table. And I don't think anybody can, you know,
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Speaker 3: blame them for that. But the longer this situation goes,
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Speaker 3: the worse it's going to become, with more and more
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Speaker 3: of these TSA employees not on the job, and at
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Speaker 3: a time when we're seeing an increased number.
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Speaker 2: Of people traveling.
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Speaker 3: So those are the exact two things you don't want
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Speaker 3: to see happen at the same time, and sadly that's
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Speaker 3: what's taking place here.
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Speaker 1: Sadly, indeed well pleased to see American Airlines is following
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Speaker 1: United's lead on kicking people off the plane for playing
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Speaker 1: loud music and videos without using headsets. So damn annoying.
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Speaker 2: Jay.
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Speaker 1: When people do that a.
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Speaker 3: Big time, Brian, and this fortunately, this plane was still
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Speaker 3: at the gate, still boarding, and she was playing a
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Speaker 3: thirty second video, just blaring it on her speaker, and
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Speaker 3: American Airlines, their flight tents came by, not once, but twice.
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Speaker 3: I politely asked if she could stop it. She refused
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Speaker 3: to do it, and they said, okay, then you're off
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Speaker 3: the plane, and she's like, what over a thirty second video?
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Speaker 3: I can't believe that. And then the passenger demanded Brian
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Speaker 3: that they contact law enforcement. And you know what American did.
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Speaker 3: And I guess when the American or when the law
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Speaker 3: enforcement officer showed up this woman who'd been drinking, screaming saying,
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Speaker 3: you know, I want to be able to express myself.
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Speaker 2: I should be allowed to do so. And the law.
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Speaker 3: Enforcement officer said, yes, you can, but from the jet bridge,
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Speaker 3: not the airplane. Let's go out, she went, and you
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Speaker 3: know there's a chance she'll never fly American again. And
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Speaker 3: it just again, United in American and other airlines are
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Speaker 3: really clamping down on these individuals, saying that you know,
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Speaker 3: they can't do this now if it happens in the
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Speaker 3: middle of a flight, I don't see the flight diverting
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Speaker 3: to another airport just to kick this individual off. But
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Speaker 3: I do see that if you're going to Chicago to
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Speaker 3: catch a flight them saying, uh, you're not catching your
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Speaker 3: connecting flight, good luck at getting where you're going, and
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Speaker 3: then being banned from flying that airline for the rest
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Speaker 3: of your life because you would not abide by the
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Speaker 3: instructions of a uniformed crew member, which happens to be
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Speaker 3: a felony by the way. So yeah, there are consequences
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Speaker 3: for actions, as some people are finding.
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Speaker 1: And you know this sense that you know you're entitled
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Speaker 1: to do whatever you damn well please, And this transcends
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Speaker 1: listening to loud music while you're sitting next and sitting
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Speaker 1: on a plane pack with people. People just generally rude
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Speaker 1: and mean and and disruptive, and it just doesn't go
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Speaker 1: down well. When you're on an airline doing this, you're
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Speaker 1: gonna get chucked off and barred from flying. When is
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Speaker 1: the word going to get out on this chair? We
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Speaker 1: just find ourselves in a terrible point and in the
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Speaker 1: in the I guess in societal de evolution that we've
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Speaker 1: crossed a milestone here.
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Speaker 2: I think that's it.
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Speaker 3: Cherry and I have got to them, and you'll hear
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Speaker 3: somebody from five booths away blair and music and it's
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Speaker 3: a nice, expensive dinner where we're just trying to relax
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Speaker 3: and enjoy ourselves and you can't because somebody's doing that.
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Speaker 3: And it's almost at the point now where I'm surprised
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Speaker 3: when it doesn't happen, you know, if I'm if I'm shopping,
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Speaker 3: if I'm a grocery, if I'm wherever it might happen
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Speaker 3: to be, and somebody didn't come by blabbing away on
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Speaker 3: their phone speaker where we hear both sides of the conversation,
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Speaker 3: and I just I don't get it. I've never got it.
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Speaker 3: And you know, in my in my younger days, if
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Speaker 3: maybe four or five of my friends were out, we
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Speaker 3: would have got behind him and all started screaming in
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Speaker 3: our phone, uh, just to try to you know, round
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Speaker 3: them out and then to look for that look on
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Speaker 3: their face like what are you doing? No, what are
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Speaker 3: you doing? But you know, obviously we're much older and
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Speaker 3: refined now we.
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Speaker 2: Can't do that.
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Speaker 3: But it just, you know, other than tasing them every
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Speaker 3: time we see them, which is my number one choice,
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Speaker 3: which is probably illegal, it's just there's no way to
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Speaker 3: really snap people into good behavior.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what parents are supposed to be for.
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Speaker 3: Well, you and I were raised differently, knowing your dad,
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Speaker 3: I know exactly how. Oh yeah, you're raised by your
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Speaker 3: parents and mine too. And yeah there's.
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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, sir, no, sir, yes, ma'am, no, ma'am.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: Oh my God asked for permission to leave the dinner table.
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Speaker 3: Oh.
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Speaker 1: Waxing poetic about the old days, Jay Ratler will continue.
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Speaker 1: Cracked windows from a bird strike. There's that, and man
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Speaker 1: praying on a Southwest Airlines flight kind of devolved into
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Speaker 1: a situation in and of itself. That a whole lot
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Speaker 1: more with Jay Rattler. Stick around fifty five KRC. When
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Speaker 1: people turn to telehealth for talk station, have you ever
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Speaker 1: been in the cockpit before a thirty eight fifty five
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Speaker 1: ker City talks to Heyhane Brian Towmins with Higheart media
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Speaker 1: aviation expert Jay Rattler. All right, so I was reading
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Speaker 1: the story this morning, Jay Ratlift. The FEDS are a
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Speaker 1: little concerned that maybe some drone strikes or a terrorist
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Speaker 1: activity out in California. Everybody's on edge, and of course
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Speaker 1: with the war going in Iran and recognizing there might
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Speaker 1: be terrorists out in the world, people might be on
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Speaker 1: edge and that might lead to panic. On a Southwest
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Speaker 1: Airlines flight, I saw this article the other day. Immediately,
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Speaker 1: of course, thought of you. I guess you can't pray
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Speaker 1: or even have an alarm on your phone letting you
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Speaker 1: know it's time for prayer.
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Speaker 3: Well, I mean this this individual was acting strangely, according
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Speaker 3: to passengers who alerted the flight crew, and every ten
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Speaker 3: minutes his alarm would go off. He would pray and
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Speaker 3: in a language people didn't understand, so they didn't know
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Speaker 3: why he was praying. He seemed very nervous, they said,
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Speaker 3: he was sweating, kept asking where his bag was. And
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Speaker 3: after about an hour of this the JFK to Fort
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Speaker 3: Lauderdale flight, the captain decided, We're going to defer this
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Speaker 3: bad boy and bounce it over to Atlanta and land
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Speaker 3: so that you know, a law enforcement could board, just
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Speaker 3: to make sure there wasn't a problem. They found that
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Speaker 3: there wasn't a problem. They aired on the side of caution.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, anytime that there's something like that, you know,
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Speaker 3: I'm sure that the individual wasn't prosecuted, detained, or prevented
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Speaker 3: from flying in the airline ever again. But when you
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Speaker 3: have that kind of behavior, yeah, the airlines are going
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Speaker 3: to be going to be concerned because the thing is,
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Speaker 3: you don't know who this individual could be traveling with.
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Speaker 3: And I can take from a safety related standpoint, one
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Speaker 3: of the things that you look at when that happens
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Speaker 3: is not that individual, but are they trying to create
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Speaker 3: a distraction for somebody else that might be trying.
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Speaker 1: To do something.
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Speaker 3: You've got a lot of things that are they're out
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Speaker 3: there as far as possibilities. So many times it's just
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Speaker 3: not that one person you're concerned with. You're worried about
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Speaker 3: those that may be traveling with him that were something's
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Speaker 3: about to happen. So it's like if somebody tries to
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Speaker 3: breach the security checkpoint at an airport and everybody looks
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Speaker 3: in that direction, I'm looking another way in case somebody
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Speaker 3: is trying to use that as a distraction to try
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Speaker 3: to get something through.
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Speaker 1: All right, So we don't know what language he was
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Speaker 1: speaking in. Maybe he was a Pentecostal, Maybe he was
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Speaker 1: a Pentecostal person speaking in tongues Jay.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it could have been. You never know.
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Speaker 1: I don't think that was yeah, I know where we're going.
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Speaker 1: I definitely understand that.
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Speaker 3: I'm you're within my seventy six pages of notes. Here
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Speaker 3: it says what language it was in. I'm sorry, I
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Speaker 3: don't have that specific point memorized.
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Speaker 1: We'll leave it to the listening audience that is sid
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Speaker 1: which language they think it was. Anyway, United Airlines had
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Speaker 1: to turn around. Here's the reason to divert. A cracked
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Speaker 1: windshield is a consequence of a bird strike. I thought
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Speaker 1: they were designed to withstand that kind of thing.
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Speaker 3: Well, they are, they are, but and cockpit windshields are
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Speaker 3: multi layered, so it's not like a car windshield or
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Speaker 3: anything like that. But when you have a cracked windshield,
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Speaker 3: part of the minimum equipment list is something that they're
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Speaker 3: going to on a take off. The windshiel gets cracked,
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Speaker 3: they're coming right back in landing. And that's exactly what
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Speaker 3: they did coming out of Newark. But roughly speaking, maybe
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Speaker 3: twenty thousand bird strikes a year that are reported to
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Speaker 3: the FA, and not all of them are. And when
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Speaker 3: you have that happen, you know they happen all the
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Speaker 3: time on takeoffs and landings. Typically, what will happen is
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Speaker 3: when the aircraft arrives at its destination, they do an
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Speaker 3: aircraft inspection to see if anything is there. But when
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Speaker 3: you have something like this that impacts a crew member's
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Speaker 3: ability to have a visual on things that are happening, yeah,
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Speaker 3: you're going to come back in land, and that's what
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Speaker 3: they did. Nobody was hurt, but obviously, well it didn't
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Speaker 3: go well for the bird, but as far as past,
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Speaker 3: just the delay that took place, and again these happened
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Speaker 3: on a daily basis, and you know sometimes the bird
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Speaker 3: strike isn't even detected until they're at the airport where
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Speaker 3: they're flying to and somebody on the ground notices something
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Speaker 3: as far as an indenttion or something like that that's
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Speaker 3: forces maintenance to come out and inspect the aircraft.
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Speaker 1: Well, it made me think of what was it the
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Speaker 1: pilot scully who successfully landed or saved all the passage
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Speaker 1: on the flight that landed in the river. That that
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Speaker 1: was birds flying into the engines, right, it was, and.
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Speaker 3: It shut both of them down and we never had
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Speaker 3: a dual engine failure ever. And they were low altitude,
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Speaker 3: so you had a situation in the landing. In the
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Speaker 3: Hudson it was called a miracle. The landing itself, to me,
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Speaker 3: was never a miracle. It was the speed at which
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Speaker 3: the crew made the decision on the Hudson that, to
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Speaker 3: me was it. Because they had limited opportunities. And I
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Speaker 3: thought the Clint Eastwood movie really bore that out well
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Speaker 3: with regards to the you know, hey, let's get it
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Speaker 3: down the river, let's put it here. We've got you know,
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Speaker 3: a lot of vehicles that are already on the water
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Speaker 3: at this point that can come and rescue. And now
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Speaker 3: the plane floated long enough they were out on the wing,
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Speaker 3: and we know the story. But yeah, bird strikes happen,
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Speaker 3: and a lot of people say, well, why can't you
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Speaker 3: put some sort of a filter or a fence or
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Speaker 3: a grit or something that would protect the engines to
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Speaker 3: keep the bird from you know, entering into an engine
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Speaker 3: like that. But the problem is, anytime you have something
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Speaker 3: in front of the engine, you're disrupting the airflow and
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Speaker 3: it actually impacts the performance of the engine. And when
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Speaker 3: you're talking about it, how many departures do we have
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Speaker 3: a day versus how many bird strikes you have a
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Speaker 3: day and something like that, the stats just don't support
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Speaker 3: us doing something like that because it would work against
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Speaker 3: us much more than it would work for us.
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Speaker 1: But they do throw geese carcass and turkey carcasses and
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Speaker 1: things into engines to test them to make sure that
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Speaker 1: they can always deal with that.
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Speaker 3: Always, always, And you've got two engines, so you know,
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Speaker 3: when there is a bird strike or an engine malfunction,
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Speaker 3: they shut one engine down. Look, you can fly across
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Speaker 3: country on one engine without a problem at all. The
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Speaker 3: issue is if both engines get impacted. And again we'd
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Speaker 3: never had that in history until we had the Hudson
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Speaker 3: River landing. And there's birds around airports everywhere, and airports
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Speaker 3: do what they can to try to remove the vegetations
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Speaker 3: the birds may want to eat or be around. They
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Speaker 3: do different types of things. And look, there's some airports
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Speaker 3: that if there's a bird strike on a runway, they'll
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Speaker 3: actually look at the bird and they have teams that
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Speaker 3: look at what the bird was eating so that they
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Speaker 3: could try to determine if it's around the airport and
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Speaker 3: remove that so that they could you know, cause the
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Speaker 3: birds to go away. But some airports use dogs, sonic cannons,
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Speaker 3: different types of things to try to you know, scare
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Speaker 3: the birds away because yeah, critical time of any aircraft operation,
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Speaker 3: take off, in landing, and when you're around birds, it's
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Speaker 3: not a good thing.
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Speaker 1: No question, But I appreciate the redundancy of that second
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Speaker 1: engine anyway.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, real quly, I like that too.
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Speaker 1: Real quickly. Here we had runway to read that ultimately
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Speaker 1: resulted in the puncture of a fuselage of an airplane departing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're always taught day one on the job. At
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Speaker 3: the ramp or a runway, you're looking for fod, for
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Speaker 3: an object, debris, anything that might be on the ground
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Speaker 3: that could get sucked into an engine that's at power.
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Speaker 3: And you see them doing the runway inspections all the
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Speaker 3: time with airport vehicles, even police cars going up and
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Speaker 3: down the runway with their lights on.
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Speaker 2: You think, what are they doing?
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Speaker 3: They're looking for debris. And what happened was we had
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Speaker 3: a United Airlines American excuse the American Airlines American EGLE
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Speaker 3: flight taking off. It was a Bombardier seven hundred aircraft
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Speaker 3: and it lifted off. It had the piece of foreign
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Speaker 3: object that actually struck the aircraft and it caused an issue.
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Speaker 3: They were about four thousand feet after they took off
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Speaker 3: when they turned around and came back and landed. But
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Speaker 3: FOD is a very very serious thing. That's what brought
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Speaker 3: down the concord. You remember that horrific class It was
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Speaker 3: in Europe because they ran over a bracket that fell
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Speaker 3: off of a Continent Airlines engine. So when they ran
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Speaker 3: over it, it went right into the underneath part of the aircraft,
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Speaker 3: punctured the fuel line, which created the fuel trail, which
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Speaker 3: ignited that you know, caused everybody on board to die.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, for an object of reason, just a very
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Speaker 3: very serious thing at airports. And you know, fortunately in
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Speaker 3: this situation, everybody was okay. But yeah, that's one of
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Speaker 3: the reasons we make sure the runways are clear.
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Speaker 1: All right, well one where we know everyone wasn't okay,
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Speaker 1: And it remains a mystery after twelve years m H
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Speaker 1: three seventy an update from Jay on that one, plus
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Speaker 1: a couple of close calls and maybe some new deals
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Speaker 1: for flight attendants or maybe not. You might get fired
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Speaker 1: perhaps if you're an American. More with Jay Ratliffe, stick
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Speaker 1: around me right back fifty five krc A forty nine
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Speaker 1: to fifty five KRSIT talk station. By the time it's
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Speaker 1: talking with iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay Ratliffe as we wrap
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Speaker 1: up at the five KRC Morning Show on this Thursday
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Speaker 1: Deck Friday with Dave hat Or and Jack Windsor from
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Speaker 1: the Ohio Press Network Tomorrow, Jay Ratliffe, it seems like
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Speaker 1: a small world until you start looking for an airline
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Speaker 1: aircraft that vanished into a giant ocean. I'm talking about
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Speaker 1: Malaysian Airlines flight MH three, seventy two and thirty nine
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Speaker 1: people aboard it disappear without a trace, and they still
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Speaker 1: haven't found it. It's been twelve years.
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Speaker 3: It's unbelievable, Brian, absolutely unbelievable. When the aircraft deviated from
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Speaker 3: his planned flight path and it was obvious that there
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Speaker 3: was an issue, the Malaysian government was contacted by nearby
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Speaker 3: countries saying is do you need assistance, and the government
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Speaker 3: said no, We've got it. They did that for six hours.
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Speaker 3: By the time they did reach out for assistance, we
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Speaker 3: had lost the window where a lot of things could
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Speaker 3: have been tracked and done. And sadly, as we've talked
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Speaker 3: so many times before, we track airlines using ground based
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Speaker 3: radarch line of sight right, and there are times when
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Speaker 3: an aircraft is away from this detection grid that we
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Speaker 3: really don't know where an aircraft is. Now if we
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Speaker 3: tracked aircraft via satellite.
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Speaker 2: Like we do.
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Speaker 3: You know, a drug dealer on Fifth and Main tracking
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Speaker 3: by his phone, got it. But we don't do that
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Speaker 3: with aircraft because we're using such an antiquated it's the
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Speaker 3: wrong word because it's beyond that. But it's just a
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Speaker 3: ridiculously outdated air traffic control system. And I really thought
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Speaker 3: when this first happened and it woke everybody up, there
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Speaker 3: would be really a push to say, look, we've got
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Speaker 3: to make sure that we get away from this World
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Speaker 3: War two based radar system right and go with something
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Speaker 3: that's a lot more updated. And you know, the FAA
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Speaker 3: has had an ext generation system that they've been developing,
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Speaker 3: which obviously is way past DOE and incredibly you know,
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Speaker 3: over budget at this point in time. But it just
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Speaker 3: it's frustrating, Brian. It really is.
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Speaker 1: Think about like on Star GPS connections and automobiles, they
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Speaker 1: know where you are every moment in time. You know,
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Speaker 1: if you're an emergency, you press a button, Hey I'm stuck,
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Speaker 1: and they come and get you. How come we don't
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Speaker 1: have that on an airplane. Duh?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's well, we do have the technology that could
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Speaker 3: be applied could The problem is the black boxes. You
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Speaker 3: could put a black box on there that transmits data constantly,
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Speaker 3: but it's one hundred thousand dollars a pop, and there's
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Speaker 3: no way an airline is going to do that because,
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Speaker 3: as we know, history shows us that most crashes take
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Speaker 3: place on takeoff and landing, which is around an airport.
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Speaker 2: Most of them happen over land, not over water.
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Speaker 3: So you know, when you've got that kind of situation,
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Speaker 3: airlines are like, hey, we're not spending one hundreds of
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Speaker 3: million dollars dollars to outfit our nine hundred airplanes for
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Speaker 3: something that wouldn't be used. But you know, once out
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Speaker 3: of every how many times? So, and then when you
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Speaker 3: look at how rare an accident is with an aircraft,
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Speaker 3: it further pushes the bean counters to say, look, we're
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Speaker 3: not going to spend something on something that is such
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Speaker 3: a statistically low probability of taking place. So yeah, but again,
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Speaker 3: we honor the lives of those that are lost by
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Speaker 3: finding out what happened and then trying to prevent it
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Speaker 3: from happening. Again, we've not been able to do that
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Speaker 3: in over twelve years.
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Speaker 2: It's just amazing.
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Speaker 1: Is there not a corollary benefit or some other tangential
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Speaker 1: benefit to having that on an airplane other than the
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Speaker 1: very remote possibility that's going to disappear in an ocean
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Speaker 1: somewhere out there in the world.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, from a security standpoint, it certainly was. But then
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Speaker 3: you've got to ask the question of what is security
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Speaker 3: worth and what are we willing to pay for it?
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Speaker 3: And that's simply something that is considered cost prohibitive. And
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Speaker 3: that's why when I hear our wonderful airline executives up
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Speaker 3: there in front of every podium and microphone and interview
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Speaker 3: saying how safety is there number one priority, I just
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Speaker 3: want to throw something at the screen, like, yeah, it
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Speaker 3: makes a great sounding point because you sound like a politician,
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Speaker 3: but when you look at where the dollars go, no,
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Speaker 3: that's not what happens, because we could do a lot
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Speaker 3: of things that are a lot safer, and we've talked
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Speaker 3: about a lot of those that aren't being done. And yeah,
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Speaker 3: when you're talking about a missing commercial jetliner, it is
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Speaker 3: without a doubt the greatest mystery that we've ever had
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Speaker 3: in commercial aviation, because for us to not know where
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Speaker 3: an aircraft is at for twelve hours is extreme, twelve weeks,
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Speaker 3: twelve months is unheard of, to go twelve years. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: I mean that's why. You know, we've had pieces that
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Speaker 3: have washed up, they have partner numbers on them. They've
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Speaker 3: been able to save those numbers correspond to this aircraft.
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Speaker 3: So the thought is, Okay, crash somewhere and we're finding
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Speaker 3: bits and pieces here and there. But right if it
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Speaker 3: was a high speed water impact, which it could have been,
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Speaker 3: you'd have a debris field that would have been extreme.
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Speaker 3: You would have had no trouble at all somewhere finding something.
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Speaker 3: And they had this latest search of one hundred and
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Speaker 3: I think forty four thousand square kilometers over the Indian Ocean.
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Speaker 3: That was just the latest attempt because it was an
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Speaker 3: area that really hadn't been looked at. But they came
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Speaker 3: back absolutely with no results whatsoever. So no closure for
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Speaker 3: the families and obviously no idea what took place.
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Speaker 1: A reminder how vast the world happens to be. I
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Speaker 1: heard mediviation next for Jay Rattle of let's pause and
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Speaker 1: will end rather on hub delays didn't get through all
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Speaker 1: the topics, but we knew that was going to be
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Speaker 1: the case. Jay, what's going on with travel out there today?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, draw line Houston right up to Washington, d C.
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Speaker 3: That's where we're having issues. Houston, Atlanta, Charlotte, up towards Philadelphia,
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Speaker 3: New York, d C. Going to be seeing whether related
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Speaker 3: delays or seeing some in excess of an hour. It's
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Speaker 3: going to be a slow go if you're headed towards
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Speaker 3: the northeast. Even if you're going through Chicago out west,
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Speaker 3: still might have some issues if your airplane is being
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Speaker 3: routed through there. So you know, take an extra dissipation
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Speaker 3: said oh yeah to us early especially getting paid and
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Speaker 3: they're there anyway.
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Speaker 1: Frought to you by mother nature delays. But then there's
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Speaker 1: the government shutdown delays that are brought to you by Yes,
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Speaker 1: the government shut down. Jay Ratliff, God bless you, sir.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate the time you're willing to spend my listeners
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Speaker 1: with me every Thursday. I love talking with you, and
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Speaker 1: we'll do it again next Thursday. Best best of health
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Speaker 1: and love to you and your better.
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Speaker 2: Half to us als, thank you.
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