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IHeartMedia Aviation Expert Jay Ratliff talks about the week in aviation · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Always looking forward to this time of the week and
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  Speaker 1: this day because we get to talk to iHeart media
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  Speaker 1: Aviation next work, Jay Ratliff, which I thoroughly enjoy doing
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  Speaker 1: and I hope my listening audience enjoys it as much
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  Speaker 1: as I do. Some really cool topics you got in
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  Speaker 1: this morning on the list here, Jay Ratliffe, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to go out of order, of course, wildly curious about
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  Speaker 1: the before we get the hub delays, which we always
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  Speaker 1: end on so we know how travel is out there.
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  Speaker 1: Today it says Boeing has been given permission to increase
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  Speaker 1: production of the seven thirty seven Max aircraft. They need
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  Speaker 1: to seek permission in terms of their output, Jay, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I know they do it to themselves sometimes in terms
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  Speaker 1: of delays and backlogs and all that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: But who has to give Boeing permission for production of
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  Speaker 1: aircraft numbers?
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  Speaker 2: The Federal Aviation Administration After the two Boeing Max crashes,
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  Speaker 2: after some of the situations we've had since, the FAA
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  Speaker 2: has said, you guys need to slow it down, and
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  Speaker 2: slow it down now. So they actually capped to the
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  Speaker 2: maximum number of Boeing seven thirty seven Max aircraft that
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  Speaker 2: they could make it to twenty six or something. They
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  Speaker 2: increased it to thirty eight a month, and now that's
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  Speaker 2: been further increased to forty two a month. So yes, Boeing,
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  Speaker 2: who hasn't made a profit since I think twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 2: is now allowed and that is the proper word, to
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  Speaker 2: produce as many as two aircraft a month, because the
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  Speaker 2: FAA had to be convinced that they were doing things
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  Speaker 2: the right way, not using scrap parts that shouldn't be used,
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  Speaker 2: making sure the production is as it needs to be,
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  Speaker 2: making sure that no more door plugs fall off of
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  Speaker 2: airplanes like we had last year with your last airline's flight.
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  Speaker 2: So and they are convinced that Boeing is making the
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  Speaker 2: necessary corrections, and we'll see. But yes, Boeing did need
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  Speaker 2: to get permission to push more planes through the through
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  Speaker 2: their production schedule.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'll acknowledge it is a heavily regulated industry and
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  Speaker 1: maybe that's a really good thing considering what they're doing.
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  Speaker 1: But you would never go to a bad part bin
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  Speaker 1: and use one of the parts that's been labeled you know,
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  Speaker 1: non compliant or it doesn't mean our safety at whatever,
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  Speaker 1: it's a unapproved part. You would never use one of
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  Speaker 1: those parts if you had an adequate supply of parts.
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  Speaker 1: Now have they overcome whatever supply shortages that led people
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  Speaker 1: to wander over to the rejected parts bin.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they've had issues in the past, and Bry, that's
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  Speaker 2: exactly the problem is that some of the supply side things,
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  Speaker 2: because remember Boeing is just hundreds and hundreds of companies
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  Speaker 2: that feed them different parts and services to kind of
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  Speaker 2: keep everything going. And there's been times that they did,
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  Speaker 2: according to the whistleblowers and some confirmed reports, where they
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  Speaker 2: ran out of parts and you were looking at an
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  Speaker 2: airplane that was going to be stationary in this production
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  Speaker 2: cycle for an extended period of time, and supervisors told
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  Speaker 2: the employees, go find the best failed part that we
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  Speaker 2: can put on this aircraft to keep the airplane moving
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  Speaker 2: through production. And it seems ridiculous, it seems stupid, nasinine,
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  Speaker 2: and it's just unbelieva believe, not safe to use a
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  Speaker 2: failed part on an aircraft. But that's what they were doing.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, it's just again Boeing told us five years
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  Speaker 2: ago that they had turned the corner and learned their lessons.
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  Speaker 2: They were not going to be you know, the same
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  Speaker 2: company and they lie to us. So I'm really hoping
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  Speaker 2: this time around, all of these paragraphs of promise that
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  Speaker 2: come out and all their you know, press releases really
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  Speaker 2: mean something because before they didn't.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I hope they have a guard posted at the
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  Speaker 1: rejected park closet, because if they haven't solved that problem,
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  Speaker 1: then telling them they can increase the number of airplanes
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  Speaker 1: they can produce on a monthly basis, that doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: a thing. If you don't have the part, they can't
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  Speaker 1: put the plane together.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes they have the big red pain on them showing
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  Speaker 2: that they're failed. So so you've got people scrubbing the
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  Speaker 2: red paint. I mean, it's like it's like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: what would go on in Russia with some of the
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  Speaker 2: stuff they do, and the idea that that's going on
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  Speaker 2: here in the United States. And I'm I mean, you
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  Speaker 2: had thirty some whistleblowers come forward saying I can't be
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  Speaker 2: a part of this anymore, right because we're putting the
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  Speaker 2: lives at risk. And you know, thank god, none of
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  Speaker 2: this stuff other than of course, those two horrific plane
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  Speaker 2: crashes with the Boeing Max five years ago, which were
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  Speaker 2: you know, coming up on that anniversary very very soon
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  Speaker 2: here on the first one. But it's just a scary thing.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, Boeing was told by the FAA five
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  Speaker 2: years ago, we really gave you too much slack, and
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  Speaker 2: we're going to be all over you, and of course
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  Speaker 2: they weren't. So the FAA failed us like Boeing failed us.
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  Speaker 2: And you're just hoping that the two entities that failed
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  Speaker 2: us as a traveling you know, segment of population, that
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  Speaker 2: they're going to both come through for us. And certainly
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  Speaker 2: we hope that's going to be the case.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly do well before we part company and take a
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  Speaker 1: break here. How about Southwest Airlines new boarding policy? What's
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  Speaker 1: this one about?
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  Speaker 2: Well, they decided that instead of having like Delta's eight
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  Speaker 2: or ten boarding zones and United ten boarding zones or
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  Speaker 2: whatever it is, that they're going to simplify it. They said,
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  Speaker 2: it's a very easy process. All we have to do
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  Speaker 2: is board all the window seat people first, duh, all
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  Speaker 2: the middle seats second, and then the ile people third,
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  Speaker 2: and we will be able to put people on the airplane.
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  Speaker 2: It's so easy. Why haven't people thought about this before?
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  Speaker 2: Blah blah blah. And it's really going to make the
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  Speaker 2: boarding process much less stressful. Well, note to Southwest, we
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  Speaker 2: have tried that before, and there's a big time problem
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  Speaker 2: because when all of your window seats and all your
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  Speaker 2: middle seat passengers board, they fill up the overhead storage compartments.
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  Speaker 2: Then you have the aisle passengers boarding last. They've paid
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  Speaker 2: more for their ticket than the middle seat people, and
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  Speaker 2: they now have no place to put their bag.
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  Speaker 1: Which is a problem.
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  Speaker 2: So we've had this happen before, so I think we
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  Speaker 2: should start an office pool about how long this is
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  Speaker 2: going to last. But look, Southwest has the best boarding
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  Speaker 2: policy in certain weather locations where they can do it.
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  Speaker 2: They bring people off the front of the airplane while
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  Speaker 2: they're boarding them on the stairs from the rear. And
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  Speaker 2: when you can do that, it's a great process. You
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  Speaker 2: can turn that silver revenue tube fast. But the problem
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  Speaker 2: is you can't do it in the winter, you can't
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  Speaker 2: do it in bad weather, can't do it in windy weather,
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  Speaker 2: all those things. So it's a perfect weather situation to
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  Speaker 2: do that. But look, for the last seventy years, Airline
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  Speaker 2: has been trying to figure out a way for us
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  Speaker 2: to how can we more quickly put people on the airplane,
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  Speaker 2: And they have tried every single combination that they can
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  Speaker 2: to try to figure out the best way. We'll board
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  Speaker 2: from the back, front, we'll board from the front, back,
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  Speaker 2: We'll board all these different ways, and it just creates problems. Look,
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  Speaker 2: when you board from the back of the airplane forward,
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  Speaker 2: you have all these people dropping their carry on bags
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  Speaker 2: and row thirteen urn row twenty eight. I know, so
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  Speaker 2: it just regardless of which way we pivot, Brian, it
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  Speaker 2: creates problems on tops of problems. And while yes, it
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  Speaker 2: seems logical to do it XYZ, the problem is in
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  Speaker 2: a real world environment where you're actually there watching what
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  Speaker 2: takes place when this happens, it doesn't exactly go as
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  Speaker 2: the theories in the office might suggest they would. At
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  Speaker 2: the gate. It's like a college professor who has all
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  Speaker 2: the answers, even though they probably never ran a business.
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  Speaker 1: Well, at the risk of running over too long, real quickly, here,
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  Speaker 1: if you have a signed seating, can't you have a
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  Speaker 1: sign bin?
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  Speaker 2: You could, and I'm surprised they've not done that before.
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  Speaker 2: Now the problem is how you're going to regulate that
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  Speaker 2: because you don't have enough flight attendants to really be
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  Speaker 2: able to do it. And I don't know why they
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  Speaker 2: don't charge us for the overhead bins if you need
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  Speaker 2: extra room, saying you can have the seat, the space
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  Speaker 2: underneath the seat in front of you, bring a small bag,
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  Speaker 2: no feet you need the overhead bin. Pooh, it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: cost you.
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  Speaker 1: There what it came a couple of sound ideas Jay
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  Speaker 1: rutlift pausive.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, they've not listen to me along time other
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  Speaker 2: than the things they complain about me. That those things they.
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  Speaker 1: Hear stay around assault rifles, emergency landings, dead people and
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  Speaker 1: space degree more with Jay Ratliff coming up right back
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  Speaker 1: fifty five of KRC them ver Moon fifty KRC he
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  Speaker 1: talked station. Have you ever been in the cockpit before?
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  Speaker 1: Jay rayd Loffe has He's iHeart media aviation expert. We
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  Speaker 1: have the pleasure of talking to Jay Rattliffe every week
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  Speaker 1: at beginning at eight thirty onto section or segment two.
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  Speaker 1: Here Jay Rattliffe sounds like it's a bad IDEA man
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  Speaker 1: with an assault rifle was arrested at the Atlanta Airport.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a forty nine year old from Cartersville, Georgia,
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  Speaker 2: and apparently Brian he had collected to a social Cartersville.
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  Speaker 1: Seriously Carter go ahead. I'm sorry to interject with a delight.
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  Speaker 1: I had one of the best experiences of my life.
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  Speaker 1: We are car broke down. And when I was in
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  Speaker 1: college rure on spring break. The car broke down right
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  Speaker 1: on the on ramp to Cartersville, Georgia, and the mayor,
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  Speaker 1: I believe he was of Cartersville, was out with his son.
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  Speaker 1: He stopped, he picked us up. There were six of us.
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  Speaker 1: He let us stay at his house. He kicked his
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  Speaker 1: daughter out, he kicked his son out. They went and
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  Speaker 1: stayed at friend's houses. He's his wife fed us all.
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  Speaker 1: This is like midnight on a weekday or something, got
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  Speaker 1: us let us sleep there. No, it was a Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: because I remember we were really worried because Sunday nothing's open.
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  Speaker 1: It was a our and here I am laboring on
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  Speaker 1: about this. Anyway, No, no fuel. The fuel pump went out,
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  Speaker 1: so we needed to buy a fuel pump really easy
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  Speaker 1: fixed in the van that we were in. So he
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  Speaker 1: ended up getting his buddy. He wonned the autoparts store
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  Speaker 1: to open up on a Sunday, got us the fuel pump,
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  Speaker 1: got the van fixed. It was. It was one of
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  Speaker 1: those renewal of faith in humanity moments in time so
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  Speaker 1: that I heard carters just could not believe how much
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  Speaker 1: gratitude we had for him, And we ended up sending
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  Speaker 1: him a big fruit basket and a big letter of
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  Speaker 1: thanks to him and his wife. They treated it so wonderfully,
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  Speaker 1: and I've always thought the world of Cartersville just because
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  Speaker 1: of that moment in time.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I hope you kept in touch with him, thank
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  Speaker 2: any repeatedly for something like that. That's great. It was great,
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  Speaker 2: and and I love the fact that a story like
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  Speaker 2: this can can can spur a nice memory like that
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  Speaker 2: that can be shared, because yeah, let's hope that encourages
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  Speaker 2: other people. You know, not that you are saying let
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  Speaker 2: strangers into your house and spend the night, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: I get it. That's a great thing because it makes
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  Speaker 2: you think that people, you know, it's kind of like
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  Speaker 2: things used to be. But yeah, this story was a
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  Speaker 2: forty nine year old from that place that posted to
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  Speaker 2: a social media count that he was going to go
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  Speaker 2: to the Atlanta Airport shoot it up. And you had
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  Speaker 2: family members that spotted those social media posts. They notified
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  Speaker 2: the local police, who then notified the Atlanta Airport. All
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  Speaker 2: this was in like fifteen minutes. The man was later
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  Speaker 2: spotted walking into the airport. He was unarmed at the
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  Speaker 2: time and the thought was he was scoping it out.
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  Speaker 2: He had his vehicle right outside the door, had an
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  Speaker 2: assault rifle loaded inside the vehicle. He was approached by
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  Speaker 2: law enforcement, he was questioned and detained and it's currently
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  Speaker 2: undergoing a mental health evaluation. And look, this is a
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  Speaker 2: perfect example of how a lot of these tragedies can
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  Speaker 2: be averted if you just have family and friends that
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  Speaker 2: might see something, hear something, notify authorities and say, look,
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  Speaker 2: this is what we see as far as what may
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  Speaker 2: or may not be going on. And I think the
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  Speaker 2: family certainly saved some lives there. But it's a lot
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  Speaker 2: like I tell people at the airport, if you see
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  Speaker 2: unattended bags, or see somebody acting in a suspicious fashion,
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  Speaker 2: immediately pointed out to the airport police. And so many
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  Speaker 2: people say, well, Jay, if it's nothing, I said, I
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  Speaker 2: don't care. And you'll never have any law enforcement officer
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  Speaker 2: tell you never should do this, because when you have
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  Speaker 2: two million people a day flying and you've got two
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  Speaker 2: million sets of eyes, all that does is ratchet up
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  Speaker 2: our security. So if you see something that doesn't look right.
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  Speaker 2: Even if it's something where you might suspect that there's
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  Speaker 2: child trafficking or something else going on, you may not
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  Speaker 2: be an expert at that, So notify somebody who is,
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  Speaker 2: and then they can determine whether or not there's an issue.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds like common sense and logic to me. Jay Ridley,
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  Speaker 1: all right, American Airlines flight making an emergency landing. Why
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  Speaker 1: this was sky.
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  Speaker 2: West flight sixty five sixty nine, taken off from Omahall
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  Speaker 2: they're headed for LA. About forty minutes into the flight,
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  Speaker 2: the pilots start hearing a loud banging on the cockpit door. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so they called for the flight attendants over the intercom.
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  Speaker 2: Flight attendants do not respond. Oh, they said, okay, we've
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  Speaker 2: got a protocol. They immediately declared an inflight emergency for security,
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  Speaker 2: turned the airplane around, went back to Omaha, and here
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  Speaker 2: come law enforcement. But when they boarded, they found out
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  Speaker 2: that it was the flight attendant's knocking on the door
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  Speaker 2: to try to tell them the intercom wasn't working. Whoops. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so apparently they didn't have a secret coded knock. It
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  Speaker 2: was us, you know. But look the pilots, you know,
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  Speaker 2: because they can't see anything, and it really surprises you
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  Speaker 2: that there's not something in the cockpit that would have
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  Speaker 2: a camera of the door or something. I mean, the
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  Speaker 2: technology is so affordable, even for cheap airlines, that that
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  Speaker 2: type of thing should exist right where pilots can look
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  Speaker 2: back and at least at the door and beyond. But
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  Speaker 2: absent of that, they didn't know what was going on,
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  Speaker 2: and they are taught that door stay shut. You'd land
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  Speaker 2: that airplane, notify law enforcement just in case. And being
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  Speaker 2: in Omaha close to the military base is there. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if they launched any military intercept that would
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  Speaker 2: be part of the process here if you've got an
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  Speaker 2: aircraft that you suspect maybe in the process of being
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  Speaker 2: taken over. So the crew did exactly what they should
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  Speaker 2: have and when the pilot landed, the captain he told
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  Speaker 2: his passengers, look, we still don't know what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: Just bear with us. But they aired on the side
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  Speaker 2: of cautions, and even though it delayed the flight, they
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  Speaker 2: did exactly what they should have done.
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  Speaker 1: I was just going to say, exactly the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly the way I would want it. Abundance of caution,
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  Speaker 1: little delay, and it's always the right thing to do.
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  Speaker 1: Let's pause, we'll bring it back. We'll talk about space
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  Speaker 1: debris and a Hong Kong plane crash plus a hub
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  Speaker 1: delay with one more. iHeart Mediavation expert Jay rat leves
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  Speaker 1: to Cramp fifty five KRC.
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  Speaker 2: It's cyber.
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  Speaker 1: It is eight forty nine on a Friday eve. Talking
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  Speaker 1: with I Heart Media Aviation expert Ja moved through the
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  Speaker 1: multitude of a variety of topics. This morning we go
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  Speaker 1: over to Hong Kong. We had a plane crash. How
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  Speaker 1: did the plane crash? I see, we had accorded the
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  Speaker 1: notes a couple of deaths.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a Boeing seven forty seven cargo plane
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  Speaker 2: landing at like three point fifty three in the morning
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  Speaker 2: in Hong Kong. They had four pilots aboard, and after
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  Speaker 2: they touched down and rotated down, they were in the
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  Speaker 2: process of slowing down and there was some sort of
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  Speaker 2: a security vehicle on the runway and the plane struck it.
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  Speaker 2: And when it did, it caused the aircraft to veer
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  Speaker 2: off the runway down to the embankment into the sea.
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  Speaker 2: So you've got the aircraft in the sea and you've
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  Speaker 2: got two people on the ground vehicle that were killed
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  Speaker 2: and the accident investigations continuing as far as why in
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  Speaker 2: the world this vehicle was on an active runway, and
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  Speaker 2: because you know, anytime you're at an airport, you're taught
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  Speaker 2: first thing about you know, how you approach, how you cross,
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  Speaker 2: everything that has to be done to make sure that
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  Speaker 2: you're not where you need to be at the wrong time.
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  Speaker 2: So hopefully they'll be able to find out why that happened, because, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we've not had an incident Hong Kong for a while,
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  Speaker 2: and to see two people killed, you know, certainly avoidable,
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  Speaker 2: and hopefully they'll find out exactly what took place.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, being on the runway in a vehicle sounds
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  Speaker 1: like a bad idea in most all cases. Day.
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  Speaker 2: Well, no, no, they do runway inspections all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you know, they drive up and down the runway
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  Speaker 2: to make sure there's no debris or animals things like
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  Speaker 2: that that might interfere with it take off or landing.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, it runways are used all the time by
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  Speaker 2: ground vehicles, but obviously never won an.
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  Speaker 1: Aircraft is landing exactly all right, space debris.
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  Speaker 2: It was thought of that United Flight ten ninety three
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  Speaker 2: Denver to La their crew as long as thirty six
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  Speaker 2: thousand feet kind of mine in their own business. When
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden, the cockpit windshield on the first
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  Speaker 2: officer side shatters. Now, the cockpit windshields not like a
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  Speaker 2: car windshield. You've got three layers of in essence, chemically
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  Speaker 2: strengthened glass that's designed for bird strikes, hail, the temperature changes,
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  Speaker 2: and everything else. But what made this different, Brian, was
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  Speaker 2: that when this shattered, part of the debris actually entered
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  Speaker 2: the flight deck and caused injuries to one of the pilots.
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  Speaker 2: He had a bloodied arm in the process. Now the
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  Speaker 2: crew was still able to control the airplane. It wasn't
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  Speaker 2: a big deal as far as operating it. They landed
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  Speaker 2: the plane fifty minutes later in Salt Lake City, and
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  Speaker 2: when they were on the ground, appeared to be some
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  Speaker 2: sort of scorch marks that were found on the outer
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: side of the airplane indicating kind of an external impact.
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  Speaker 2: And there wasn't any hail reported in the area. Birds
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  Speaker 2: at thirty six thousand feet not real likely, but they thought, okay,
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: it could have been a piece of space debris, which
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: is like never happened, that could have actually struck the airplane.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: The odd latest well a trillion to one at the point. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but the thought is that they're thinking it may have
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: also been a weather balloon that could have been in
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: the area. They're still investigating at the sea. But Brian,
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  Speaker 2: anytime I talk about a cockpit window, I have to
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: talk of British Airways Flight fifty three ninety. This was
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  Speaker 2: a plane that was cruising at seventeen thousand feet and
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  Speaker 2: the captain's windshield totally blew off. It was improperly installed,
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: he was not wearing a seatbelt. Close a decompression send
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: him right out the window. Now, there was a flight
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: attendant who had just entered the cabin that lunged forward
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: and grabbed the captain's knee and feet and was hanging
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: on to him as he's outside the aircraft.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, this was several years ago, cracked many years ago.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: But I think a picture about that or something.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I'm going to say. If you've not googled
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: the image of British Airways fifty three ninety, you gotta
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: do it, because there were pictures taken of this aircraft
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: in flight as it was trying to land that has
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: the captain laying across the top of the aircraft. Wild
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: how flight has.
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  Speaker 1: A going When the window blew out.
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  Speaker 2: Well seventeen thousand feet you had been going on depending
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: on the specific I mean, you're going one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: eighty two hundred miles an hours, you're coming down and
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: slowing down.
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  Speaker 1: Stick your head out of a wit of a moving cart.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know the captain survived. You had frost
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: bite and different things. He didn't remember a lot of
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: things that happened, obviously, But look, this guy was flying
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: six months later. But if you go to just to
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: a Google Lemons image surge of BA British Airways fifty
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: three ninety, you will swear that's a photo. There's no
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: way that's a real picture. And every time I talk
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: about it, people look at they're like, oh my gosh.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: But yes, fifty three ninety is the most famous cockpit
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: windows story that I've ever encountered in thirty three years
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: of doing this.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Yep, it didn't take much for me to find it. Jay,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: as we were talking, Yeah, fifty three ninety. All right,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: let's close up with hub delays as we typically do.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Haws it looking out there for air travel, Jay ratlift.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: As far as hubs Detroit, maybe late in the day,
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: but Brian, there's just not a lot of inclement weather
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: out there that's going to really get in the way
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: of any hubs, and as a result, should be a
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: good day to fly. If you're heading out west. We've
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: got weather that might give us some turbulence, but you know,
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: most people are going to keep their seat built on anyways,
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: which is always a good idea even when you're flying.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: So I think today is going to be one of
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: the better days of the week we've had to fly.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Jay Rightleff, always a real pleasure to have you on
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: the program, Sarah. Look forward to next Thursday, another aviation
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: report morning, and I hope you have a great week
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: and best of health and love to you and your
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: better half, my friend, and to you as well, Thank you.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Thanks brother. Eight point fifty four coming to be fifty five.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Can get a chance to listen live the return of
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Congressman Warren David's Davidson this morning.