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- 0:00Speaker 1: We have uncovered new information and accusations about the cargo
- 0:03Speaker 1: airline operating the Amazon Prime airplane that crashed in Miami
- 0:08Speaker 1: on Sunday, killing five people in a van inside the
- 0:10Speaker 1: airport perimeter and in a Toyota Corolla outside the perimeter.
- 0:15Speaker 1: This cargo airline called 21 Air has a documented history
- 0:19Speaker 1: of hiring foreigners who can't follow instructions from air traffic controllers,
- 0:23Speaker 1: as well as a reputation for hiring incompetent pilots. who
- 0:27Speaker 1: can't pass basic training at other airlines, according to industry
- 0:30Speaker 1: professionals who say they have firsthand knowledge of the company's operations.
- 0:36Speaker 1: Now we're gonna go through the evidence we have in
- 0:38Speaker 1: a moment, as well as the implications for air travel
- 0:41Speaker 1: in this country, which as we've discussed many times before
- 0:44Speaker 1: is increasingly dangerous and third world. We will begin with
- 0:49Speaker 1: the footage of the crash itself, which was presumably shot
- 0:52Speaker 1: by a plane spotter or someone who noticed the plane
- 0:55Speaker 1: was having difficulty And as you watch this, you will
- 0:58Speaker 1: immediately realize that the pilots are responsible for the disaster.
- 1:03Speaker 2: I mean, there's no question about it.
- 1:04Speaker 1: They practically dive bomb the runway and they don't even
- 1:08Speaker 1: get all the wheels down until they're roughly halfway down
- 1:11Speaker 1: the tarmac.
- 1:13Speaker 2: But watch and see for yourself. Here it is. Now,
- 1:44Speaker 2: there's really no.
- 1:45Speaker 1: Need for an aviation expert to analyze the footage. Anyone
- 1:48Speaker 1: who's ever seen a plane land at any point in
- 1:50Speaker 1: their lives understands the problem. This was a very unstable approach.
- 1:55Speaker 1: They were not descending in a steady, predictable pattern. Instead,
- 1:58Speaker 1: they were far too high and too fast. And indeed,
- 2:01Speaker 1: according to radar data, they crossed a waypoint about four
- 2:05Speaker 1: miles from the runway at 1,400 feet. which is 600
- 2:08Speaker 1: feet above where they should have been, the left main
- 2:12Speaker 1: gear is clearly off of the runway for an extended
- 2:14Speaker 1: period of time, even after the other landing gear made
- 2:17Speaker 1: contact with the runway. And that means the plan can't
- 2:20Speaker 1: stop effectively because none of the systems that slow the
- 2:23Speaker 1: plane down, the spoilers, the brakes, or the reverse thrusters
- 2:27Speaker 1: will work effectively or at all if the landing gear
- 2:31Speaker 1: aren't on the ground. Now you can see from this
- 2:34Speaker 1: reconstruction just how long it took for these pilots to
- 2:38Speaker 1: put the plane on the ground. It's not even close really.
- 2:42Speaker 1: So according to the website Flight Radar, the plane was
- 2:44Speaker 1: going 183 knots, ground speed, not airspeed, at just 500
- 2:48Speaker 1: feet above the ground. So they're about twice as high
- 2:51Speaker 1: as they should have been, probably going around 30 to
- 2:54Speaker 1: 40% too fast. Now there could very well be a
- 2:57Speaker 1: variety of reasons for why the plane wasn't able to
- 3:01Speaker 1: fly a normal approach. It's quite possible the wind contributed. Obviously,
- 3:05Speaker 1: thunderstorms were visible behind the plane. As reported by meteorologist
- 3:10Speaker 1: John Morales, there was a tailwind gust at the time
- 3:13Speaker 1: this plane was landing, coming from the south at around
- 3:16Speaker 1: 30 miles an hour. Normally, planes don't land with a
- 3:20Speaker 1: tailwind because it's too dangerous. And until a few minutes
- 3:23Speaker 1: before the plane touched down, there was no tailwind at all.
- 3:26Speaker 2: There was actually a.
- 3:27Speaker 1: Small headwind coming from the west until the winds suddenly shifted.
- 3:30Speaker 1: So yes, it's conceivable that the wind shifted at the
- 3:33Speaker 1: last minute, making this approach substantially more difficult. And additionally,
- 3:37Speaker 1: it's also possible that the pilots simply weren't paying attention
- 3:41Speaker 1: to their airspeed or altitude. Now, whatever the case, it
- 3:44Speaker 1: really doesn't matter because whenever a plane flies an unstable
- 3:48Speaker 1: approach this close to the runway, in every case, pilots
- 3:52Speaker 1: are supposed to execute a go-around. That means they're supposed
- 3:54Speaker 1: to abort the landing, apply full throttle, and come around
- 3:59Speaker 1: for another pass or divert to an alternate.
- 4:01Speaker 2: Airport if necessary.
- 4:03Speaker 1: This is the fail safe that solves all of these
- 4:06Speaker 1: issues and it's not optional. They were descending at a
- 4:09Speaker 1: rate of 2000 feet per minute on their final approach
- 4:13Speaker 1: when the normal range is 500 to 800 feet per minute.
- 4:16Speaker 2: Anything over a thousand.
- 4:17Speaker 1: Feet per minute on the descent is automatically an unstable
- 4:20Speaker 1: approach that requires a go around. That's not even considering
- 4:23Speaker 1: how long it took them to actually put the plane
- 4:26Speaker 1: on the ground They blew past at least a third of.
- 4:29Speaker 2: The runway, which is another reason for a go-around.
- 4:32Speaker 1: At any point, as they were flying over the runway,
- 4:35Speaker 1: and even as the landing gear first made contact, they
- 4:37Speaker 1: could have aborted. Instead, they drove the plane off the
- 4:41Speaker 1: runway onto a perimeter road, and they killed several people.
- 4:46Speaker 1: In short, the only conceivable explanation for this crash is
- 4:49Speaker 1: that the pilots had no business flying an airplane of
- 4:53Speaker 1: any kind, much less a massive cargo plane. That's not
- 4:56Speaker 1: really a debatable point. The footage makes it very clear.
- 4:59Speaker 1: We don't need to wait for the federal government to
- 5:01Speaker 1: conclude a five-year investigation to determine that the pilots caused
- 5:05Speaker 1: this crash due to their manifest incompetence. So now the
- 5:09Speaker 1: relevant questions are, who were the pilots exactly? Why did
- 5:14Speaker 1: the airline hire them? What did their training look like?
- 5:19Speaker 1: And what were regulators doing instead of supervising this airline?
- 5:24Speaker 1: The first clue comes from the radio communications from this
- 5:28Speaker 1: 21 Air cargo plane just prior to the crash. So
- 5:32Speaker 1: we'll play some of that footage, which was compiled by
- 5:34Speaker 1: a channel called VAS Aviation. And to be clear, the
- 5:38Speaker 1: call sign for 21 Air is cargo south. So when
- 5:41Speaker 1: you hear the pilot respond from cargo south, that's coming
- 5:44Speaker 1: from the plane that ultimately crashed. And note that in
- 5:48Speaker 1: a two-person crew, the pilot making the radio calls usually
- 5:51Speaker 1: is not flying the plane at the same time. So
- 5:55Speaker 1: with all that in mind, listen. So the pilot clearly
- 6:33Speaker 1: has a foreign accent, which by itself may not seem
- 6:36Speaker 1: like a big deal, but then you think of all
- 6:38Speaker 1: the foreign-born truck drivers who have been mowing down Americans
- 6:42Speaker 1: on the highway, and you start to wonder... Does the
- 6:45Speaker 1: same problem affect airlines? Is there an epidemic of unqualified
- 6:49Speaker 1: pilots who can barely speak English who have been imported
- 6:52Speaker 1: into this country to fly cargo planes or even passenger
- 6:55Speaker 1: airlines on the cheap?
- 6:58Speaker 2: That's a reasonable question to ask. And it becomes even
- 7:01Speaker 2: more reasonable when.
- 7:02Speaker 1: You look at this letter from the FAA to the
- 7:04Speaker 1: director of operations of 21 Air dated May of 2023.
- 7:09Speaker 1: And the letter grants 21 Air permission to, quote, substitute
- 7:12Speaker 1: a qualified and authorized check airmen in place of an
- 7:16Speaker 1: FAA inspector to observe a qualifying pilot in command who
- 7:20Speaker 1: was completing the initial or upgrade training. During at least
- 7:23Speaker 1: one flight leg, that includes a takeoff and a landing.
- 7:28Speaker 1: So yes, the FAA granted this cargo airline the ability
- 7:31Speaker 1: to ditch the inspectors and certify their own pilots for
- 7:36Speaker 1: takeoffs and landings. And there are a few restrictions on
- 7:38Speaker 1: the people the airline is allowed to substitute for the
- 7:41Speaker 1: FAA inspector, but it's up to the airline to to
- 7:43Speaker 1: ensure compliance with those restrictions.
- 7:45Speaker 2: So it's kind of like the honor system, basically.
- 7:48Speaker 1: The letter is basically the FAA allowing 21 Air to self-regulate,
- 7:52Speaker 1: which has become a very common theme in the aviation industry.
- 7:55Speaker 1: It's one of the reasons those Boeing MAX jets kept crashing.
- 7:59Speaker 1: And this particular exemption is commonly issued to various airlines,
- 8:03Speaker 1: but it's abundantly clear that certain airlines, especially garbage airlines,
- 8:08Speaker 1: but perhaps like 21 Air, should never have this authority.
- 8:12Speaker 1: I mean, in this case, the FAA allowed 21 Air
- 8:15Speaker 1: to get rid of independent FAA inspectors and basically self-certify
- 8:20Speaker 1: their pilots for landings. And now it's clear that their
- 8:24Speaker 1: pilots were not capable of landing the planes, certainly in
- 8:30Speaker 1: this case. So who are these pilots exactly? This is
- 8:34Speaker 1: reporting from an engineer named Nick Plum. And here's what
- 8:39Speaker 1: He says, quote, 21 Air's pilot group appears to have
- 8:42Speaker 1: grown from around 20 in 2021 to 135 today, probably
- 8:46Speaker 1: to support the seven additional Boeing 767s. Amazon shifted to
- 8:51Speaker 1: it from Atlas Air, another cargo airline. Public resumes show
- 8:55Speaker 1: current pilots at 21 Air with prior flying careers in Venezuela, Colombia, Peru,
- 9:01Speaker 1: Central America.
- 9:02Speaker 2: Ethiopia and India.
- 9:03Speaker 1: 21 Air also hires permanent residents and other work authorized non-citizens.
- 9:08Speaker 1: how this little known carrier scaled this fast may be
- 9:12Speaker 1: worth digging into.
- 9:15Speaker 2: And indeed it is. So this got my attention.
- 9:18Speaker 1: So I decided to look closer at the reputation of
- 9:21Speaker 1: 21air in the industry. Specifically, I pulled up dozens of
- 9:25Speaker 1: posts on airline pilot forums, which is one of the
- 9:28Speaker 1: most popular message boards among pilots. If you're a pilot
- 9:32Speaker 1: looking for a new job and you want to get
- 9:34Speaker 1: a sense of the quality of a particular airline, this
- 9:37Speaker 1: is almost certainly a site that you're going to visit.
- 9:40Speaker 1: So two years ago, the reputation of 21 Air was
- 9:43Speaker 1: heavily discussed on the airline pilot forums because one user
- 9:47Speaker 1: was interested.
- 9:49Speaker 2: In working there.
- 9:51Speaker 1: Quote, you have no idea the horrors that await you
- 9:54Speaker 1: at 21 Air. It is the bottom feeder of all
- 9:56Speaker 1: bottom feeders, clapped out rust buckets from Sanford inside The
- 10:00Speaker 1: turnover is 100% because it's so bad. There's nothing good
- 10:03Speaker 1: in anyone's life going anywhere near 21 Air.
- 10:08Speaker 2: And then there's this.
- 10:09Speaker 1: Quote, almost every pilot that left ABX, that's another cargo airline,
- 10:14Speaker 1: for 21 Air was asked to resign because of how
- 10:17Speaker 1: poorly they did in training. The only person I'm aware
- 10:19Speaker 1: of that wasn't asked to resign was a prospective captain
- 10:23Speaker 1: that got mad after he failed his ETOPS check and
- 10:27Speaker 1: left out of spite. The only thing I can confirm
- 10:31Speaker 1: is that almost all the guys who left ABX for
- 10:33Speaker 1: 21 Air did so because ABX asked them to resign
- 10:37Speaker 1: during training. There are many more posts we'll get to
- 10:41Speaker 1: in a second, but just by themselves, these two comments
- 10:44Speaker 1: paint actually a very familiar picture. If you remember, it
- 10:47Speaker 1: was just a few years ago when another Amazon Prime
- 10:50Speaker 1: cargo plane, which was operated by a different carrier called
- 10:54Speaker 1: Atlas Air, crashed into the water while on approach to Houston.
- 10:59Speaker 1: And the cargo plane was being flown by Conrad Aska,
- 11:03Speaker 1: who's a DEI hire who had no idea what he
- 11:05Speaker 1: was doing in the cockpit. He constantly failed his simulator
- 11:08Speaker 1: training at other airlines, but he wound up getting hired
- 11:12Speaker 1: by Atlas Air anyway. Atlas Air, of course, promoted DEI
- 11:15Speaker 1: all over its website at the time. And it didn't
- 11:18Speaker 1: take long before Conrad Aska managed to fly a perfectly
- 11:21Speaker 1: good airplane into the water. He accidentally pressed a switch
- 11:24Speaker 1: that caused the plane's nose to tilt upward slightly, apparently
- 11:27Speaker 1: because his gigantic watch hit the switch. And then in
- 11:31Speaker 1: a panic for reasons that make no sense, he decided
- 11:34Speaker 1: to push the nose of the plane as far down
- 11:36Speaker 1: as he could, disregarding all of his instruments, which told
- 11:39Speaker 1: him that he was crashing the plane. This is one
- 11:42Speaker 1: of the more unbelievable sequences to ever take place in
- 11:45Speaker 1: modern aviation. It's basically akin to accidentally pressing the accelerator
- 11:49Speaker 1: pedal on your car, and then when the car lurches forward,
- 11:53Speaker 1: you consciously decide to press down on the accelerator pedal
- 11:56Speaker 1: for another 60 seconds until you crash into a wall
- 12:00Speaker 1: going 100 miles per hour.
- 12:01Speaker 2: That's essentially the equivalence here. Watch.
- 12:05Speaker 3: The crew was setting up the approach procedure when the
- 12:07Speaker 3: airplane encountered light turbulence. Shortly afterward, the autopilot and autothrottles
- 12:14Speaker 3: entered go-around mode as the airplane was passing about 6,300 feet.
- 12:19Speaker 3: There were no flight crew call-outs. Consistent with the activation
- 12:23Speaker 3: of the go-around mode, the airplane arrested the descent and
- 12:26Speaker 3: began a slight pitch-up, and the thrust levers advanced. The
- 12:30Speaker 3: speed brakes were retracted, which could only be done manually.
- 12:33Speaker 3: The captain responded to a routine radio call, while the
- 12:36Speaker 3: first officer pushed forward on the column and made an
- 12:39Speaker 3: expression about speed and exclaimed, We're stalling. There was no
- 12:43Speaker 3: indication that the airplane actually stalled. It was likely that
- 12:47Speaker 3: the first officer was experiencing disorientation due to the somatographic
- 12:51Speaker 3: illusion in which airplane acceleration results in a false nose-high feeling.
- 12:57Speaker 3: The airplane reached a steep nose-down attitude in high speed.
- 13:01Speaker 3: Below about 3,000 feet, the airplane broke out of the clouds,
- 13:04Speaker 3: the controls moved to full nose-up, but it was too
- 13:06Speaker 3: late before they impacted the bay.
- 13:09Speaker 1: So that presentation was from the NTSB, which claims that
- 13:13Speaker 1: the pilot became disoriented, which is a very polite way
- 13:17Speaker 1: of saying that.
- 13:18Speaker 2: He didn't have the IQ necessary to be a pilot.
- 13:21Speaker 1: If your plane suddenly pitches up and your response is
- 13:24Speaker 1: to fly the plane directly into the ground, even when
- 13:27Speaker 1: all of your instruments are functioning normally, then you're not
- 13:30Speaker 1: merely disoriented, you are completely and totally incompetent. And indeed,
- 13:35Speaker 1: it's becoming apparent that Total incompetence are being allowed to
- 13:40Speaker 1: fly massive cargo planes all over the country. In particular,
- 13:44Speaker 1: they're getting hired by Amazon, or at least contractors for Amazon.
- 13:48Speaker 1: And that's why seven years later, yet another Amazon plane
- 13:52Speaker 1: has crashed in a very preventable, absurd fashion. The more
- 13:56Speaker 1: you look into 21 Air, the more complaints you'll find
- 13:59Speaker 1: from other pilots about how the airline was destined for
- 14:02Speaker 1: a major crash. So here's another post, for example, where
- 14:06Speaker 1: a pilot responds to someone who didn't get a callback
- 14:09Speaker 1: from 21 Air after an interview. The pilot describes a
- 14:12Speaker 1: scenario where a 21 Air cargo plane working for a
- 14:16Speaker 1: DHL caused a major incident in Newark. Quote, no offense,
- 14:20Speaker 1: but it's probably good they aren't calling you. The other
- 14:23Speaker 1: night we taxied behind a DHL cargo south, again means
- 14:27Speaker 1: a 21 airplane, clapped out 767 in Newark. Crew never
- 14:33Speaker 1: turned on the beacon. Ground screamed at them twice for
- 14:36Speaker 1: not following directions. The English was poor. Guess they don't
- 14:39Speaker 1: know how to handle a low altitude capture on the
- 14:42Speaker 1: 76 because they blew past 2,500 clearance. And you could
- 14:46Speaker 1: tell they were struggling to get the airplane on track
- 14:49Speaker 1: and on altitude.
- 14:51Speaker 2: ATC was livid.
- 14:52Speaker 1: Not worth putting your certification on the line for a
- 14:54Speaker 1: 36th Street Venezuelan money laundering outfit. You're better off flying
- 15:00Speaker 1: a paper airplane. Now I'll be the first to admit
- 15:04Speaker 1: that I don't understand everything in this quote, but from
- 15:07Speaker 1: what I can tell with the help of Google, if
- 15:10Speaker 1: we go line by line, the pilots of a 21
- 15:13Speaker 1: air jet failed to turn on the beacon on their plane,
- 15:16Speaker 1: which is used for avoiding collisions, of course. They also
- 15:19Speaker 1: got screamed at by ground controllers, presumably for being unable
- 15:21Speaker 1: to taxi properly. And then once airborne, they climbed beyond 2,500
- 15:26Speaker 1: feet without authorization, which endangered every other plane flying around Newark.
- 15:30Speaker 1: And on top of all this, we're told that a
- 15:32Speaker 1: 36th Street Venezuelan money laundering outfit is involved. That's apparent
- 15:37Speaker 1: reference to the well-established use of cargo airlines to smuggle
- 15:40Speaker 1: drugs and other contraband to Central and South America, although
- 15:45Speaker 1: we should note there's no evidence that 21 Air is
- 15:47Speaker 1: knowingly involved in anything like that. That's just what it
- 15:49Speaker 1: said in that one post. Nevertheless, the testimonials along these
- 15:53Speaker 1: lines continue to roll in. Again, all these are from
- 15:58Speaker 1: a couple of years ago prior to this recent crash. Apparently,
- 16:02Speaker 1: 21 Air had earned the nickname 21 Scare among pilots. Quote,
- 16:08Speaker 1: I've heard some scary stories of friends jump seating on
- 16:12Speaker 1: 21 Scare, terrain warning and controlled flight into terrain maneuvers,
- 16:17Speaker 1: high altitude stalls, automation issues. The majority of the pilots'
- 16:21Speaker 1: English is their second language.
- 16:24Speaker 2: Amazing they haven't bent up a 767 yet. They're also
- 16:27Speaker 2: in cahoots.
- 16:28Speaker 1: With Cargojet, exploiting a loophole with temporary aircraft certificates and
- 16:33Speaker 1: signing over airplanes from Cargojet 21 Air with a logbook
- 16:37Speaker 1: entry and then operating domestic US flights, then signing the
- 16:41Speaker 1: aircraft back over and flying back to Canada. So yes,
- 16:45Speaker 1: the person wrote that it was amazing that a 21
- 16:48Speaker 1: Air hadn't destroyed a Boeing 767 yet, given how terrible
- 16:53Speaker 1: the airline is. And just two years later, that's exactly
- 16:56Speaker 1: what happened. They managed to destroy a jet and several
- 17:00Speaker 1: vehicles in the jet's path, along with killing several people. Now, obviously,
- 17:04Speaker 1: we can't vouch for the credibility of any anonymous post
- 17:08Speaker 1: on the internet. I don't endorse anything these people are
- 17:12Speaker 1: saying for the simple reason that I can't prove any
- 17:14Speaker 1: of it.
- 17:14Speaker 2: I'm just telling you what these people are reporting.
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- 17:19Speaker 1: these critics have some idea what they're talking about, given
- 17:23Speaker 1: the events of this weekend.
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- 20:17Speaker 1: has enough to deal with. So the specific accusation here
- 20:21Speaker 1: is that cargo jet, which is a foreign carrier, will
- 20:25Speaker 1: land in the United States, then give control of the
- 20:28Speaker 1: aircraft on paper over to 21 Air. And this is
- 20:31Speaker 1: necessary because by law, only domestic cargo carriers can fly
- 20:35Speaker 1: from one U.S.
- 20:36Speaker 2: City to another. This is actually a pretty well-documented phenomenon.
- 20:39Speaker 1: Whether you view it as a loophole or not, it
- 20:41Speaker 1: appears to be legal. But the optics aren't great, especially
- 20:45Speaker 1: since Cargojet held significant, roughly 25% ownership stake in the
- 20:50Speaker 1: holding company of 21 Air. And former Cargojet executives have
- 20:53Speaker 1: taken senior roles at 21 Air. So it looks like
- 20:56Speaker 1: 21 Air is basically a middleman for foreign cargo companies
- 21:00Speaker 1: to get around the requirement of U.S.
- 21:04Speaker 2: Law.
- 21:06Speaker 1: There are other alleged benefits that 21 Air provides to
- 21:08Speaker 1: this foreign airline. Reading on from another poster, it says, quote,
- 21:13Speaker 1: you would not honestly believe what goes on there. It's
- 21:16Speaker 1: the management team that perpetuates the complete madness, though.
- 21:19Speaker 2: The executives are.
- 21:20Speaker 1: Old buddies from the 36th Street gangs back in the day.
- 21:24Speaker 1: They don't know any way else. The owners are real
- 21:26Speaker 1: pieces of work. And 21 Air is set up to
- 21:28Speaker 1: fly struck freight if sister cargo jet goes on strike.
- 21:33Speaker 1: You will be forced to get a Canadian validation to
- 21:35Speaker 1: do this very thing if you don't get fired. There
- 21:38Speaker 1: is only one place worse than 21 Air, and that
- 21:40Speaker 1: is World Atlantic. These two are where you go when
- 21:43Speaker 1: no one else will take you. My surprise, not really,
- 21:46Speaker 1: is that after all the incidents and poor training and conditions,
- 21:49Speaker 1: the FAA lets these companies continue to operate. but no
- 21:52Speaker 1: one else will fly the flowers and the bodies and
- 21:55Speaker 1: that famous white stuff in and out of SA. It's
- 21:58Speaker 1: really just that simple. You're honestly better at alligator Alcatraz
- 22:03Speaker 1: than 21 Air. So that's a thinly veiled and unsubstantiated
- 22:07Speaker 1: accusation that 21 Air is trafficking cocaine, among other things.
- 22:12Speaker 2: And again, I can't confirm any of that. Obviously, I'm
- 22:14Speaker 2: just telling you what they say.
- 22:15Speaker 1: He's also saying that the primary purpose of the airline
- 22:18Speaker 1: is basically to bust strikes that take place in Canada.
- 22:22Speaker 1: and that the executives of the company are corrupt friends
- 22:25Speaker 1: from other fly-by-night cargo operations in Miami.
- 22:28Speaker 2: Again, these claims may or may not be true. I
- 22:31Speaker 2: have no idea.
- 22:33Speaker 1: But after what just took place in Miami with a
- 22:35Speaker 1: 21-air cargo plane flying the single worst approach ever caught
- 22:39Speaker 1: on film, at least in memory, there's no reason to
- 22:43Speaker 1: automatically discount any of these posts. Everyone at the airline
- 22:48Speaker 1: should be investigated. All of these pilots and industry professionals,
- 22:52Speaker 1: everyone who made these posts, should be interviewed at a minimum.
- 22:56Speaker 1: So here's one more post along these lines. Quote, for
- 22:59Speaker 1: the love of God, stay as far away from this
- 23:02Speaker 1: place as possible. You have no idea what you'd be
- 23:04Speaker 1: getting yourself into. It truly is a bottom feeder of
- 23:07Speaker 1: epic proportions. Management that has been on the same merry-go-round
- 23:10Speaker 1: for years, they go from one bottom feeder to the next. Now, again,
- 23:15Speaker 1: you could discount all these claims if you want to.
- 23:17Speaker 1: Certainly there are plenty of small airlines that get similar
- 23:19Speaker 1: complaints on forums like this, including airlines that as of
- 23:22Speaker 1: now have not.
- 23:23Speaker 2: Had a fatal crash.
- 23:24Speaker 1: So maybe this is all slander from random people with
- 23:27Speaker 1: an ax to grind. Maybe 21 Air only hires the
- 23:31Speaker 1: most competent pilots available. Maybe the executives are very ethical
- 23:34Speaker 1: people and there was no way to prevent the crash
- 23:37Speaker 1: that just took place in Miami. But if that's the case,
- 23:40Speaker 1: you have to wonder why we're not allowed to know
- 23:43Speaker 1: the names and employment history and qualifications of the pilots
- 23:47Speaker 1: who were involved in the incident. This is obviously a
- 23:50Speaker 1: matter of public concern. Five people are dead. A plane
- 23:54Speaker 1: just careened off the runway at a major airport. We
- 23:58Speaker 1: have a right to know who was involved so we
- 24:00Speaker 1: can figure out how to prevent pilots like this from
- 24:02Speaker 1: ever getting hired again. Whatever privacy rights these pilots have,
- 24:07Speaker 1: they don't trump the public's right to know what happened.
- 24:11Speaker 1: People are dead because of the actions of these pilots.
- 24:14Speaker 2: So who are the pilots? Well, the government right now
- 24:18Speaker 2: won't tell us.
- 24:19Speaker 1: And that's not surprising since the government has a clear
- 24:22Speaker 1: conflict of interest here.
- 24:23Speaker 2: They supposedly regulate the airlines.
- 24:25Speaker 1: Public disclosure of the identity of the pilots could reveal
- 24:28Speaker 1: government incompetence or complicity in certifying these pilots, just like
- 24:32Speaker 1: the government certifies incompetent truck drivers all the time. And
- 24:35Speaker 1: for their part, for obvious reasons, the airlines also want
- 24:38Speaker 1: to bury the story forever. And we shouldn't allow that.
- 24:42Speaker 1: If the pilot, hypothetically, just got hired from Venezuelan Airlines
- 24:47Speaker 1: or something like that, it would be a national news story,
- 24:50Speaker 1: and rightfully so. But this has become normal in the
- 24:54Speaker 1: aviation industry. In late 2022, a United Airlines passenger plane
- 24:57Speaker 1: departing Maui plunged 7,000 feet per minute to within 800
- 25:02Speaker 1: feet of the ocean, all because of pilot error. And
- 25:05Speaker 1: to this day, we have no idea who these pilots were.
- 25:10Speaker 1: They have not faced any kind of discipline either.
- 25:12Speaker 2: As far as we know, watch.
- 25:15Speaker 4: A frightening nosedive. We are learning about that United Airlines
- 25:19Speaker 4: flight from Hawaii to San Francisco that nearly crashed into
- 25:23Speaker 4: the Pacific. It happened in December, but tonight the report
- 25:26Speaker 4: is out and we are hearing now from passengers. They
- 25:31Speaker 4: call it a miracle. Rod Williams and his family were
- 25:34Speaker 4: headed to San Francisco after a Hawaiian vacation.
- 25:37Speaker 3: Very shortly into the flight itself, the pitch of the
- 25:41Speaker 3: aircraft took a dramatic rise.
- 25:43Speaker 4: It was December 18th, less than 90 seconds after departure.
- 25:48Speaker 4: New data from Flight Radar 24 reveals the United Airlines
- 25:52Speaker 4: 777 suddenly dove, falling 7,000 feet per minute.
- 25:57Speaker 3: We're all looking at each other, looking at the window,
- 26:02Speaker 3: grabbing onto the seat, grabbing the hand of the person
- 26:04Speaker 3: next to us, praying under our breath. Again, maybe a
- 26:07Speaker 3: scream here and there.
- 26:08Speaker 4: Williams has an aviation background and says he had an
- 26:11Speaker 4: idea of what was happening, but today he's learning they
- 26:14Speaker 4: were within 800 feet of slamming into the ocean. We're
- 26:18Speaker 4: all that 5 to 5.2 seconds away from not being
- 26:22Speaker 4: around our loved ones. In a statement, United Airlines says,
- 26:25Speaker 4: after landing at SFO, the pilots filed a safety report,
- 26:29Speaker 4: then coordinated with the FAA and the pilots union on
- 26:33Speaker 4: an investigation that ultimately resulted in the pilots receiving additional training.
- 26:39Speaker 1: So the pilot wanted five degrees of flaps and the
- 26:42Speaker 1: first officer sets 15 degrees instead. They don't realize it
- 26:46Speaker 1: and they nearly crash as a result. The key detail
- 26:48Speaker 1: here is that the pilots self-reported the mistake which apparently
- 26:52Speaker 1: grants them total immunity. The NTSB has concealed the pilots' identities,
- 26:58Speaker 1: and the airline hasn't punished them solely because they self-reported
- 27:02Speaker 1: under the Aviation Safety Action Program, or ASAP, which is
- 27:06Speaker 1: something the FAA apparently endorses. Now, first of all, whether
- 27:09Speaker 1: they self-reported this or not, the passengers were going to
- 27:13Speaker 1: report it themselves, so they don't really deserve any credit.
- 27:17Speaker 1: Plunging 7,000 feet per minute is something you would probably
- 27:20Speaker 1: notice if you're a passenger. And secondly, even if no
- 27:24Speaker 1: one had noticed it somehow, self-reporting should not grant you
- 27:27Speaker 1: immunity from consequences. I mean, if you self-report that you
- 27:30Speaker 1: nearly crash a plane and kill everybody on board, you
- 27:33Speaker 1: should be named and certainly fired and potentially arrested. Instead,
- 27:39Speaker 1: we have a system where you suffer no consequences whatsoever.
- 27:43Speaker 1: I mean, imagine if we had this system in any
- 27:45Speaker 1: other profession. Imagine if a police officer accidentally shoots at
- 27:49Speaker 1: an innocent bystander and the bullet misses by a fraction
- 27:52Speaker 1: of an inch. If he self-reports what happened, are we
- 27:55Speaker 1: just supposed to look the other way?
- 27:58Speaker 2: It's absurd. But that's how it works in the aviation industry.
- 28:02Speaker 1: Once you have enough children, meals can sometimes become more
- 28:06Speaker 1: of a theoretical concept. The children eat meals, you prepare
- 28:10Speaker 1: the meals, and then you clean out the meals. But
- 28:13Speaker 1: somehow your own lunch consists of three bites of something
- 28:16Speaker 1: while standing over the kitchen counter and half of whatever
- 28:18Speaker 1: your child decided they no longer wanted. This is not
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- 29:23Speaker 1: United Airlines is well-known in the industry for.
- 29:26Speaker 2: Its aggressive DEI targets.
- 29:28Speaker 1: They set a goal of having 50% of the students
- 29:31Speaker 1: in their flight academy being women or people of color.
- 29:34Speaker 1: They have all kinds of partnerships with various explicitly non-white organizations,
- 29:38Speaker 1: including the Organization of Black Aerospace Professionals, the Latino Pilots Association,
- 29:45Speaker 1: the Professional Asian Pilots Association. So they heavily recruit from
- 29:49Speaker 1: so-called historically black colleges as well. They are a DEI airline,
- 29:54Speaker 1: in other words. And they know that as long as
- 29:56Speaker 1: their pilots self-report their mistakes, then there's a good chance
- 30:00Speaker 1: we'll never find out their identities or whether DEI was
- 30:04Speaker 1: involved in their hiring. Now, even in cases where we
- 30:08Speaker 1: do ultimately learn the identities of the pilots, it takes
- 30:11Speaker 1: a while. A couple of years ago, for example, an
- 30:15Speaker 1: American Airlines plane crossed roughly a thousand feet in front
- 30:18Speaker 1: of a Delta flight with 145 passengers on board that
- 30:22Speaker 1: was departing from Kennedy International Airport in New York. The
- 30:27Speaker 1: American flight was supposed to turn right to cross runway
- 30:31Speaker 1: 31 left, but instead it proceeded across runway 4 left,
- 30:35Speaker 1: where the Delta plane was taking off.
- 30:38Speaker 2: Watch.
- 30:39Speaker 5: Delta 1943, wind 35018, gusts 24, runway 4 left, cleared
- 30:41Speaker 5: for takeoff. Cleared for takeoff, runway.
- 30:44Speaker 2: 4 left, Delta 1943.
- 30:44Speaker 5: JetBlue 918, Kennedy Tower, runway 4 left, line up and wait.
- 30:48Speaker 5: 4 left, line up and.
- 30:49Speaker 4: Wait, JetBlue 918.
- 30:50Speaker 3: American 185, Kennedy Tower.
- 30:53Speaker 5: Go ahead for American 185. American 185, runway 31L, Kilo Echo, line.
- 30:57Speaker 2: Up and wait.
- 30:59Speaker 4: Line up and wait, 31L, Kilo Echo for.
- 31:09Speaker 5: American 185. Delta, 1943, cancel takeoff clearance. Delta, 1943, cancel
- 31:14Speaker 5: takeoff clearance.
- 31:16Speaker 3: Rejecting.
- 31:17Speaker 2: Tower, American 106 heavy.
- 31:18Speaker 4: American 106 heavy.
- 31:23Speaker 3: The last class we were given, we were cleared to cross,
- 31:25Speaker 3: is that correct?
- 31:28Speaker 5: American 1-0-6-Heavy, we're departing runway 4-left. I guess we'll listen
- 31:34Speaker 5: to the tapes, but you were supposed to depart runway 4-left.
- 31:38Speaker 5: You're currently holding short of 3-1-left. Roger, American 1-0-6-Heavy. American 1-0-6-Heavy,
- 31:43Speaker 5: cross runway 3-1-left, thank you.
- 31:56Speaker 1: So this was seconds away from being one of the
- 31:58Speaker 1: deadliest aviation accidents in history. And after the near miss,
- 32:01Speaker 1: the cover-up began. First, the crew did not report the
- 32:05Speaker 1: incident to American Airlines. Instead, they flew all the way
- 32:07Speaker 1: to London, a flight so long that the cockpit voice
- 32:10Speaker 1: recorder was taped over. And then when federal investigators tried
- 32:14Speaker 1: to interview them, the crew, on the advice of their union,
- 32:17Speaker 1: refused to cooperate. The NTSB had to issue subpoenas to
- 32:21Speaker 1: get them to talk. And It's because of those subpoenas
- 32:23Speaker 1: that we ever learned the names of the pilots in
- 32:26Speaker 1: the first place. For more than a year after the incident,
- 32:28Speaker 1: their names were redacted. So finally, after the NTSB opened
- 32:33Speaker 1: its public docket, we learned that the co-pilot, Tracy Gonzalez,
- 32:36Speaker 1: claimed she had been distracted by a large number of
- 32:39Speaker 1: weather alerts. She said that, quote, she was unaware of
- 32:42Speaker 1: the airplane's position when the captain taxied onto runway 4L.
- 32:46Speaker 1: She knew they were approaching a runway, but she did
- 32:48Speaker 1: not realize they were approaching runway 4L. Meanwhile, the captain,
- 32:52Speaker 1: Michael Graver, was equally clueless.
- 32:55Speaker 2: He admitted he.
- 32:56Speaker 1: Spotted big red lights, meaning do not enter the runway,
- 32:59Speaker 1: but he disregarded them. Quote, all of a sudden I
- 33:01Speaker 1: saw that red glow and I just right away I
- 33:03Speaker 1: said something.
- 33:04Speaker 2: That ain't right.
- 33:05Speaker 1: I didn't know what was happening, but I was thinking
- 33:08Speaker 1: something's wrong. Obviously, none of these pilots should ever work again.
- 33:12Speaker 1: But as far as we know, they're still flying passengers around.
- 33:16Speaker 1: The government hid their identities for months until the heat
- 33:19Speaker 1: died down. The pilots stalled the interviews for as long
- 33:22Speaker 1: as possible. And now that we've determined the pilots were culpable,
- 33:26Speaker 1: nothing was done. Now, to be clear, DEI is just
- 33:30Speaker 1: one part of the story. Again, we still have no
- 33:31Speaker 1: idea whether the pilots in the Miami crash were DEI
- 33:35Speaker 1: hires or not. Yes, as a general matter, it's true
- 33:38Speaker 1: that DEI pilots are being protected even after they nearly
- 33:41Speaker 1: kill people.
- 33:42Speaker 2: That's true.
- 33:43Speaker 1: But we should also be honest about the fact that failing,
- 33:46Speaker 1: falling standards in the aviation industry are linked to various
- 33:50Speaker 1: cost-cutting measures as well, including how companies outsource to contractors
- 33:54Speaker 1: to lower overhead costs, skirt liability, cause a race to
- 34:01Speaker 1: the bottom to improve their revenues. And one of the
- 34:04Speaker 1: reasons Amazon hires multiple cargo companies to fly these planes
- 34:08Speaker 1: is to pit the companies against one another. Amazon wants
- 34:14Speaker 1: the lowest rates, so rather than hiring one dedicated high-quality
- 34:17Speaker 1: cargo airline, They provide an incentive for these bottom feeding
- 34:21Speaker 1: airlines to fight among themselves for the contract. Foreign hiring,
- 34:27Speaker 1: of course, is another related element.
- 34:28Speaker 2: Of the story.
- 34:29Speaker 1: So is the fact that the FAA allowed this airline
- 34:31Speaker 1: to self-certify its own pilots for takeoffs and landings. So
- 34:38Speaker 1: we're extremely lucky that this accident, as horrible as it was,
- 34:41Speaker 1: only involved a cargo plane and a couple of vehicles.
- 34:45Speaker 1: As I've been saying for several years now, we are
- 34:47Speaker 1: on a trajectory where air disasters.
- 34:49Speaker 2: Are going to become more common than ever.
- 34:53Speaker 1: We simply have too many planes being flown in very
- 34:55Speaker 1: congested airspace, along with too many exemptions.
- 34:59Speaker 2: And DEI pilots.
- 35:02Speaker 1: The midair collision over the Potomac, which was caused by
- 35:04Speaker 1: a female helicopter pilot, was a sign that something needs
- 35:09Speaker 1: to change in this industry, and quickly. And the crash
- 35:13Speaker 1: of this Amazon cargo plane in Miami and all the
- 35:16Speaker 1: warning signs that were missed is a reminder that none
- 35:21Speaker 1: of those changes have actually taken place. In fact, it
- 35:24Speaker 1: was just a few weeks ago that Marine One, the
- 35:26Speaker 1: president's helicopter, was allowed to come far too close to
- 35:29Speaker 1: a passenger plane over Reagan Airport in D.C. because the
- 35:32Speaker 1: controllers missed a key radio transmission from the helicopter. This
- 35:37Speaker 1: is the state of American aviation, and we can't even
- 35:40Speaker 1: keep the president's helicopter safe.
- 35:42Speaker 2: We are reliant on a small number.
- 35:44Speaker 1: Of air traffic controllers who hate their jobs, foreign pilots
- 35:48Speaker 1: who can't speak English, and airlines that self-certify their own
- 35:53Speaker 1: terrible pilots. This is a setup that makes many more
- 35:58Speaker 1: disasters inevitable. And until someone in the government has the
- 36:03Speaker 1: foresight of random anonymous pilots in an online message board,
- 36:08Speaker 1: we can expect that nothing will change. And every flight
- 36:11Speaker 1: you board will carry a substantial, preventable, unnecessary risk.
- 36:17Speaker 2: Because of it. That'll do it for the show today.
- 36:20Speaker 2: Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow.
- 36:22Speaker 2: Have a great day. Godspeed.
- 36:30Speaker 4: Every significant movement in history has started with protesting.
- 36:32Speaker 2: You're a traitor! Uncle Tom!
- 36:34Speaker 4: This is our generation's civil rights!
- 36:35Speaker 2: I have no idea what the protest is about. Bingo!
- 36:38Speaker 5: Given the current climate, should a figure as polarizing as
- 36:41Speaker 5: Clay Saunders even be allowed on campus?
- 36:43Speaker 2: Uh, can you hear me okay? Saunders is a close
- 36:46Speaker 2: personal friend of Chancellor Friedman. This is a decision I
- 36:48Speaker 2: cannot fight. Islam will conquer the West. As-salamu alaykum. Are
- 36:55Speaker 2: we paying attention? They've taken over the building. They're downstairs
- 36:59Speaker 2: and they've blocked the doors.
- 37:02Speaker 4: I seek forgiveness from Allah the Almighty.
- 37:06Speaker 2: We cannot run and hide. Muhammad is the messenger of God.
- 37:11Speaker 4: There is no God but Allah.
- 37:14Speaker 2: What do you say we turn those SOBs into a
- 37:19Speaker 2: fine red mist?
- 37:21Speaker 4: As we move, one man will cover while the other
- 37:23Speaker 4: guys go. They call that leap project.
- 37:25Speaker 3: Stretch them out and listen.
- 37:28Speaker 2: You need a course in safe weapons handling.