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The FAA and DoD Must Have One Leg Up In Our Skies · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Some disturbing news tonight, and F thirty five fighter jet crashed in South Carolina
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  after pilot was ejected. The pilot, thank god, was taken to a
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  hospital after parachuting the safety into a North Charleston neighborhood about two pm on Sunday.
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  But for the Air Force that's celebrating seventy six years of existence as one
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  a military of the military's branches, what's even more disturbing about this is not
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  just that had happened to what eighty to one hundred million dollars jet and then
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  it just kept flying and missing after this pilot was ejected, only to find
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  out they found debris today. It's the third event. It's the third event
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  documented as a Class A mishap over the past two weeks. Do you know
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  a kind of mishapp that means it's an instant when damages reach two point five
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  million dollars or more, a Department of Defense aircraft is destroyed, or someone
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  dies or is permanently disabled. It looks like all three of these things definitely
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  happened to an eighty to one hundred million dollars jet, and the memes are
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  going around and ha ha, But this is a serious thing because I jumped
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  over to CNN, Yes, CNN, and I read this headline written by
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  Zachary be Wolf of CNN. He said that jet the Marines lost, taxpayers
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  will pay one point seven trillion dollars for the F thirty five program. So
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  here's the thing. We talk about accessibility, accountability, and adaptability on this
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  podcast. Well, now we have to adapt to paying for three Class A
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  mishaps involving the F thirty five program. They even asked the public to help.
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  Okay, that's how bad it was. They said, f F thirty
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  five is gone missing, gidding up fight. I saw it on a tree
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  that a friend of mine texting me, are you kidding me? Our military
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  lost and F thirty five a self fighter jet. The exact money is around
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  one hundred million dollars. Wolf says the entire program for that thirty five is
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  on track to cost one point seven trillion dollars over the lifetime of the plane.
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  He adds trillion with a T joint based. Charleston then posted a social
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  media mean immediately for information. I guess the biggest question here is not so
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  much that went missing, but why did the pilot eject himself? Was he
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  self ejected? Did the plane eject him? What that'll happened to the pilot
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  here? That's my big question. We can ask how we lost it,
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  but I wonder how we got ejected from the plane? Is it this thing
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  AI generated? I mean, I know everything else they want to do as
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  AI generated, like electric vehicle. Is this an electric vehicle? And we
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  don't know. Did it just self eject the pilot in the middle of North
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  Carolina? Like? What the flip? It's a self fighter jet by the
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  way, and this has been a program for a long time, by the
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  way, but I really, I really gotta figure out who got the contract
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  for us. We've been talking a little bit about defense contract contracts. Were
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  they Was it vetted properly to give them the contract for this program? And
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  by the way, lockeed Marky Martin is the defense contract uh M reward ee
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  if you will, And Zach Wolf went on to say, guess what.
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  Here's the statement that Lockee Martin said. The global F thirty five fleet has
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  surpassed more than seven hundred twenty one thousand cumulative flight hours spans seventeen nations and
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  three US military services since thirty fives began flying seventeen years ago. There's been
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  one pilot fatality, less than ten come from destroyed aircraft. More than nine
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  hundred sixty five thirty fives have been delivered and more than four hundred and thirty
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  thousand sorties completed. But I think this has to due with red tape.
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  There's a reason why. Apparently the Accountability of the Government Accountability Office is saying
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  this program is more than a decade behind scheduled and one hundred eighty three billion
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  dollars over original costs. You know, if you tapped Elon Musk instead of
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  investigating him to do something like this, he would have got his team,
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  his group together to do something even better. But no, let's go after
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  Elon Musk because he's the bad guy in this whole situation. Meanwhile, he
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  probably might have created better f thirty fives for you. And maybe if you
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  ordered him a defense contract, we'd be in a different place. A pilot
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  wouldn't not be ejected from its plane. Just thinking outside the box here,
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  Department of Defense, just thinking out of the box here, DJ, Even
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  though you want to go after Musk, right right, But I and I
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  know there's a music thing. I know ambas music. But I'm fired up
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  because when you want to hold when you feel like we when we feel like
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  we should hold the govern accountable. And thank God, this pilot is okay.
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  But I'll tell you what, God is a funny way of doing things.
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  And maybe if we didn't know that two other mishaps happened, we wouldn't
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  have cared about this third one. But because the third one made a real
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  big splash crash if you will, well guess what it's time to tell you.
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  There have been other mishaps like this. There are other training exercises that
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  go awry and helicopters go crashing. We just don't talk about it enough.
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  It becomes a headline for one second and boom, notifications done and that's it.
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  But if we're putting one point seven trillion dollars into this military jet program,
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  shouldn't we have a say in who gets the contract? Maybe these defense
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  contracts should be voted on by we the people, since we're paying for the
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  fricking program. How about that one leg up with Alex Scarrett listeners. And
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  by the way, you might ask, what else to do with the culture,
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  what els to do with society? Well, we as a culture are
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  paying for this. This has become a cultural issue now because it's been memed,
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  and it makes the government look stupid for losing a one hundred million dollars
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  jet. But then I want to tie something else into it because I don't
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  know for sure. I don't think it's true. I don't think this pilot
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  has PTSD. But we found out here the One Leg Up with Alex Scarrett
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  podcast found out that the FA FAA is suspecting nearly five thousand pilots are concealing
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  medical issues to keep flying. That's right, five thousand civilian pilots maybe providing
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  false information or excluding it during their medical examinations in order to continue flying.
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  And you know what they're flying. You know what they're flying. They're flying,
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  uh, commercial airlines, commercial airlines who fly for Part one twenty one
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  cargo and Part one thirty five charter or tour operators. But yeah, we
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  have commercial airline pilots, according to the FAA, who might have some kind
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  of medical condition that could otherwise ground them. Because these pilots all so we're
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  trying to double dip to getting VA benefits. So you want to get your
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  VA benefits, and you want to be an FAA affiliated pilot, and by
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  June of twenty twenty one, forty eight hundred cases of FAA database of veterans
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  certified as civilian pilots also at disability benefits through the VA. How is this
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  allowed that commercial airlines are being flown by a number of pilots that might be
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  otherwise grounded. Doesn't that should that scare us? Or should we just be
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  used to anything in society today? Should this be a norm or not?
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  Should this be acceptable? Seven hundred sixty five thirty seven hundred and sixty five
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  pilots reported healthcare avoidance because they feared losing their medical certification. This is two
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  thirds of pilots could be obscuring information. So two thirds of our pilots could
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  be in this situation, could be flying a commercial airline. And you know
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  they said, maybe the guy that was flying the Malaysia Airlines flight that disappeared,
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  maybe he had some pta, had some issue mental discrepancy there that led
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  him to crash that flight or lead it to disappear. By the way,
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  there's an investigation back to two thousand and two called Operations Safe Pilot. All
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  this which I can link up in the description below from Freight Waves, which
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  picked up on the story originally posted by the Washington Post, and I picked
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  it up at the Star Ledger from Newark. They actually have some really good
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  stories that impact us all, I think. But if this thing's going all
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  the way back to nearly twenty years ago, twenty one years ago, then
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  why has the problem continued? Because I believe of the red tape. There
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  is government red tape that probably led these aircrafts to be allowed to fly the
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  UP thirty five without any kind of advanced check up, God forbid. And
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  it's probably the same kind of culture within the FAA h we just allowed it.
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  FA affiliate physicians telling pilots don't don't write that down that you had VA
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  benefits and you might have a disability of preventing you from from flying. But
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  two thirds, two thirds of the number, I want you to know,
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  two thirds could be flying commercial airlines. Of these five thousand pilots concealing mesnical
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  issues to keep flying that should be otherwise grounded. We don't know what happened
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  today, and we damn should get some answers about that F thirty five if
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  we're going to be paying into it. Millions and millions and millions, trillions
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  of dollars one point seven trillion, to be honest. But until we fully
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  get answers, we'll speculate, we'll make memes, but we should also know
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  some real facts here. And the fact that stands out in my mind is
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  that these pilots in the military or out of the military seems to easily become
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  civilian pilots for commercial airlines and Torah airplanes as well. But now this is
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  all brought to light, So my question is, what's the FAA gonna do
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  about it, and what's the VIA gonna do about it? And if they're
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  being lied to, by the way, there's six hundred thousand certified pilots by
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  the FAA, they're being lied to, they's just take action. And right
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  now about sixty pilots of the five thousand have been suspended temporarily to correct records
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  and undergo new air medical examinations to restore their medical certificates. But of course
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  it took a media outlet to figure this out because the FAA, according to
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  the Washington Post and elsewhere, FA largely hidden the investigation from the public.
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  Gee, don't you think we should know this? Fay. If we are
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  supportsed to rely on pilots to get us to and fro in the air,
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  shouldn't we know that there's a class of pilots. And thank you for your
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  service to the veterans of the commercial airlines, thank you for those who fought
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  the war. But I have a problem with you double dipping, because that
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  double dipping could be harmful for regular passengers just trying to get to and from
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  safely. And I don't know if this pilot that was ejected today we'll fly
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  again. We'll be too traumatized or too physically injured to fly again. But
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  it all adds up. It's like a free for all in the skies thanks
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  to bureaucratic red tape. And the bureaucratic red tape is also the concealing of
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  this information. So I hope that we get answers more and more from the
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  FAA. I hope we get answers more and more from the Air Force on
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  what happened today and the American military and the Department of Defense, and that
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  the red tape can finally be removed from this administration so that we can get
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  clear and honest answers. Wouldn't that be great. Wouldn't that be nice?
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  Wouldn't it be great? We have to worry about pilots that might have some
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  kind of neurological disorder from their time in war. I hope. I don't
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  scare you to fly tonight or tomorrow, but it's something you should know and
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  something we should keep track of, because that's part of the podcast Missions to
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  Hold Accountable. It's talk about accountability, accessibility, and adaptability. And I
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  think we should hold the FAA accountable for this. I think we should hold
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  the Department Offense accountable for this, and the Air Force accountable for this,
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  and especially because we're taxpayers. But I also think that we should be holding
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  well asking questions, asking questions of these agencies and see where they go with
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  it, see how many cases get closed where they properly discipline a pilot who's
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  lied to the VA or the FAA. Really the FAA because the airwaves and
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  what goes on in the sky is part of our culture too, because millions
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  of people we love and no travel by plane. So yes, this is
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  a cultural issue that I'm talking about, not just because the memes are made
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  today, but because we have real lives in the hands of real life pilots.
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  Every day there's a takeoff from any of our major airports or minor airports,
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  those pilots choose to take those lives into their hands. And I think
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  we should be damned if we let concealing continue without pressuring the FAY to do
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  something about it. And we'll be damned if we don't get answers from the
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  Department Defense about what happened today. And also the other class A mishaps that'd
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  been going on in the last few weeks. Would be nice snow, wouldn't
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  it links to all of this? To break it down more is going to
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  be in the description below, But I just feel like you won't hear these
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  stories elsewhere. That's why I want to bring into your attention. And I
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  felt like Culture in the Sky was a great topic tonight because there's some shenanigry
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  going on. And we'll talk to you soon on One Leg Up with Alex Garrett.