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IHeartMedia Aviation Expert Jay Ratliff · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Talk station. 830-55-KRCD.
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  Speaker 2: Talk station.
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  Speaker 1: Friday Eve.
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  Speaker 2: It's that time of week I always look forward to.
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  Speaker 2: Jay Ratliff joins the program. He is iHeartMedia's aviation expert.
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  Speaker 2: He's nationwide. We get the benefit of his company every
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  Speaker 2: Thursday for several segments. Welcome back, Jay Ratliff. It's always
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  Speaker 2: a pleasure talking with you, my friend.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, the pleasure's mine, Brian. Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning. I know you're not going to know the
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  Speaker 2: answer to this question unless you've seen further reporting on this.
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  Speaker 2: How does someone get struck by an airplane on the
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  Speaker 2: tarmac when it's in pushback operation. My understanding, in my
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  Speaker 2: experience with pushbacks, you're not going very fast. So how
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  Speaker 2: could a human being not see a giant airplane moving
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  Speaker 2: toward them? This guy got killed.
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  Speaker 1: He did.
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  Speaker 3: And the reports that I'm reading is that the engine
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  Speaker 3: was reversing. Now, if it's a pushback, it's a slow process.
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  Speaker 3: There are occasions on some aircraft, some locations, that they
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  Speaker 3: can actually reverse thrust on the engines and push themselves back.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think that was being done here. It's a
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  Speaker 3: powerback maneuver. But if that's the case, those engines are
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  Speaker 3: sucking in a great deal of air as they are
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  Speaker 3: in reverse mode. So I don't know the specifics yet,
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  Speaker 3: but typically you're right. In a very slow-moving pushback type
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  Speaker 3: of thing with everybody around the aircraft and the marshaler
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  Speaker 3: at the front keeping an eye on everything, the captain
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  Speaker 3: is focused completely on that marshaler so that if something
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  Speaker 3: does come up where they've got to stop, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: the guy in the tug stops, the captain will hit
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  Speaker 3: the brakes if necessary. They'll do what needs to happen.
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  Speaker 3: But there's more details here that we've got to see
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  Speaker 3: exactly what happened. Because when I see an employee got struck,
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  Speaker 3: it's the same term we used with the incident in Denver,
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  Speaker 3: where the passenger was struck by the landing aircraft. Well,
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  Speaker 3: He wasn't struck, but, yeah, I mean.
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  Speaker 1: He got into the engine.
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  Speaker 2: He got sucked into it.
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  Speaker 3: It was, and it was a nicer way to word
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  Speaker 3: it so that it didn't sound quite as horrific as
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  Speaker 3: it was.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a vacuum cleaner, isn't it?
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  Speaker 3: It's horrific, yeah. When we got the 757s for the
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  Speaker 3: first time, those engines were so quiet that we had
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  Speaker 3: to put a circle of safety actually cones in front
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  Speaker 3: of the engines. that allowed about a 25-foot barrier front
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  Speaker 3: and back, a big circle there that you did not cross.
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  Speaker 3: Because if that engine was going in any way and
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  Speaker 3: you were within that 25-foot circle, you were in danger.
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  Speaker 3: And when you've got the air protection on the ramp
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  Speaker 3: and different types of things with a quiet engine, a
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  Speaker 3: lot of times you may not be aware of what's
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  Speaker 3: going on if you show up to do something and
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  Speaker 3: you try to take a shortcut to the other side
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  Speaker 3: of the aircraft.
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  Speaker 1: So, I mean, safety is.
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  Speaker 3: is so paramount, but when people are sometimes distracted or
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  Speaker 3: they're trying to do too much or typically try to
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  Speaker 3: do things too fast, that's when there's an issue. And
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  Speaker 3: I used to tell the agents who worked with me
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  Speaker 3: all the time, I'll fire you on the spot if
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  Speaker 3: I see something on the ramp I don't like because
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  Speaker 3: of the fact I'd rather have you mad at me
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  Speaker 3: the rest of your life than have something occur to
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  Speaker 3: you on the ramp where you don't have a rest
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  Speaker 3: of your life. So you run faster than you think,
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  Speaker 3: and sometimes people– in an effort to just try to
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  Speaker 3: do too much at once, put themselves unwittingly in harm's way.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we go from death on a tarmac to death
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  Speaker 2: in a hotel room. What happened to this flight attendant, Jay?
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  Speaker 3: Southwest flight attendant, been flying, I think, 25 years. A
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  Speaker 3: mom lives in Oklahoma, was on a layover in Hawaii.
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  Speaker 3: She was at a five-star, I think, Sheraton Waikiki, and
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  Speaker 3: she fell out of her balcony 24, 25 floors up.
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  Speaker 3: She dies and the investigation is ongoing. The people that
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  Speaker 3: knew her said, hey, this girl, woman was full of life.
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  Speaker 3: She was making plans. She's gotten a tattoo that she
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  Speaker 3: was going to have filled in a later time. A
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  Speaker 3: lot of future plans being made to not somebody that
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  Speaker 3: you would think would intentionally hurt themselves.
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  Speaker 1: So they're thinking it.
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  Speaker 3: Was either a horrific accident or somebody else was involved.
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  Speaker 3: So the family's really pushing for answers. The airline community
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  Speaker 3: is a very tight knit community. And, Brian, when it
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  Speaker 3: comes to the flight attendants, I've had relatives that are
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  Speaker 3: flight attendants and obviously been very close to a number
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  Speaker 3: of them throughout my career. A lot of times when
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  Speaker 3: they're nice to individuals on airplanes, that nice demeanor many
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  Speaker 3: times is taken as a sexual advance. So a lot
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  Speaker 3: of times you have these passengers that are, in essence,
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  Speaker 3: looking for these flight attendants that they think expressed an
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  Speaker 3: interest in them. And if they found them, sometimes they
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  Speaker 3: try to carry things too far. And that's why there's
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  Speaker 3: great care in trying to keep the crews for the,
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  Speaker 3: like let's say a flight's canceled. The crew goes to
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  Speaker 3: one hotel. The passengers go to another. You're constantly trying
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  Speaker 3: to keep that barrier between the two. And we don't
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  Speaker 3: know if this was a situation where a passenger that
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  Speaker 3: was on her flight was involved or what have you.
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  Speaker 3: But I can tell you that one of the things
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  Speaker 3: that's going to be looked at in this investigation are
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  Speaker 3: the passengers that she last came into contact with, just
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  Speaker 3: as an FYI. And I'm sure that's one of the
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  Speaker 3: many steps they're taking in this investigation is they desperately
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  Speaker 3: search for clues to find out why this woman died.
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  Speaker 1: I guess.
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  Speaker 2: And I suppose we can blame Hollywood for the perception
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  Speaker 2: that all flight attendants are frisky and on the prowl, right, Jay?
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  Speaker 1: Or pilots. Well, true. Or guys that are on the radio.
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  Speaker 1: You just never know, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course not.
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  Speaker 1: You never know. Those stereotypes.
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  Speaker 2: Fair shot. Fair shot.
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  Speaker 3: Don't go away.
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  Speaker 1: We got a 1990. That was at both of us, bro.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 2: I know. You look in the mirror. We got a
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  Speaker 2: 1992 rule that will now be enforced in first class.
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  Speaker 2: Laptops catching on fire and the 737 Max back in
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  Speaker 2: the news, probably for not good reasons. Jay's going to
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  Speaker 2: talk all about that and so much more coming up.
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  Speaker 2: I hope you don't go away.
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  Speaker 1: At the talk.
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  Speaker 3: The talk station.
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  Speaker 2: You ever been in a cockpit before? 839, 55KRCD Talk Station.
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  Speaker 2: Brian Thomas with iHeartMedia.com expert Jay Ratliff. Okay, there's a
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  Speaker 2: rule on the books since 1992 from the FAA, which
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  Speaker 2: is now going to finally be enforced. This involves first-class beverages,
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  Speaker 2: and I bet it's not a positive development for the
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  Speaker 2: first-class passengers, but that's what you're here for, Jay.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what happened in 1992, they said that No aircraft
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  Speaker 3: should be pushed back until all the drinks and service
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  Speaker 3: wear have been collected from first-class passengers. But as you
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  Speaker 3: and I both know, ever since 1992, if you've got
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  Speaker 3: a drink or something in first class, typically what happens,
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  Speaker 3: the aircraft pushes back, the airplane is a taxi, the
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  Speaker 3: flight crew goes through their pre-flight departure briefing, and then
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  Speaker 3: after that briefing is done, they circle back, collect all
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  Speaker 3: the items from people in first class, throw them away,
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  Speaker 3: and then they're seated for takeoff. The FAA has come
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  Speaker 3: back and said, look, we now really need you to
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  Speaker 3: enforce that rule because we want the flight attendants seated
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  Speaker 3: at their emergency exits faster, sooner, not at the last minute.
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  Speaker 3: Just in case there's a situation where we need to
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  Speaker 3: deploy the emergency evacuation, we have all the players in position,
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  Speaker 3: which I totally understand. So they're now saying that if
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  Speaker 3: you're going to get that drink in first class, you
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  Speaker 3: can have it long because they're going to collect it
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  Speaker 3: from you before the aircraft door is shut. Now, the
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  Speaker 3: interesting thing is, let's say I bring my coffee on
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  Speaker 3: that I have, and I'm sitting next to you with
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  Speaker 3: your drink that you got from the flight attendant. They'll
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  Speaker 3: take yours, but I get to keep mine because I
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  Speaker 3: brought it on board. Now, you can't bring alcohol, obviously,
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  Speaker 3: on board an airplane and drink it. That's a felony,
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  Speaker 3: big time fine.
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  Speaker 1: You can't do that.
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  Speaker 3: But, yeah, if I've got my beverage and, you know,
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  Speaker 3: people have asked me, Jay, do you ever drink coffee
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  Speaker 3: on an aircraft?
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  Speaker 1: No, I do not. Because the water lines aren't as clean.
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  Speaker 3: As I would like them. Google Images will show you.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think you have to worry about the coffee
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  Speaker 3: side of things. But a lot of people like to
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  Speaker 3: have an alcoholic drink or something. And typically what it
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  Speaker 3: means is you're going to have it fast. Get on
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  Speaker 3: that plane early. Because when the doors are shut, they're
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  Speaker 3: taking that from you. And since first-class passengers tend to
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  Speaker 3: board first, and they're on there for 30 minutes, 25 minutes,
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  Speaker 3: or what have you before departure, they.
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  Speaker 1: Should still have time to to.
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  Speaker 3: Enjoy whatever drink they have, but it will be collected
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  Speaker 3: before departure.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the fact that they don't collect private beverages you
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  Speaker 2: brought on yourself and they collect the other ones suggests
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  Speaker 2: that there isn't really a safety concern connected with drinking
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  Speaker 2: in first class?
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  Speaker 3: The drinking part is not the issue. The service part is.
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  Speaker 3: And the thought is if you have somebody with first
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  Speaker 3: class and you gave them a drink, for the sake
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  Speaker 3: of the convenience and pampering of that passenger, you want
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  Speaker 3: to collect that from them so they don't have to
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  Speaker 3: worry about it. while the plane is taking, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Because, Brian, come on, we.
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  Speaker 3: Can't expect you to have to hold on to that
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  Speaker 3: cup for a few minutes until the plane takes off.
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  Speaker 3: So you're far too important for that.
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  Speaker 2: Indeed, and no one's going to complain about having their
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  Speaker 2: beverage taken away from them at all, never.
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  Speaker 3: Only if it's not filled fast enough.
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  Speaker 2: Giant, giant concern. You've brought this to my attention multiple times,
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  Speaker 2: and it's just one of those things I think that
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  Speaker 2: bothers me or worries me more about airline travel than
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  Speaker 2: anything else. Laptops catching fire or cell phones catching fire,
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  Speaker 2: that kind of thing. Guess what? I guess it happened again.
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  Speaker 1: It did.
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  Speaker 3: It was an American Airlines flight coming into Dallas. The
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  Speaker 3: passenger's laptop starts to catch on fire. Smoke fills the cabin.
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  Speaker 3: Three or four passengers reportedly burned, injured. Medical team standing
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  Speaker 3: by when it lands. The flight attendants who are now
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  Speaker 3: firefighters put out the flames. They've got things they use,
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  Speaker 3: fire-repressant bags and other types of procedures that are designed
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  Speaker 3: for these lithium battery fires. And here we have, again,
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  Speaker 3: another example of, A, how hot these things burn, how
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  Speaker 3: fast they burn, and how dangerous they are. My concern
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  Speaker 3: is the airlines have taken the steps of saying, look,
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  Speaker 3: we don't put any of these items in the overhead
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  Speaker 3: storage compartment. Put them underneath the seat in front. of
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  Speaker 3: you so that if they do start to smoke, they
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  Speaker 3: start to catch on fire overheat. We know about it
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  Speaker 3: sooner than if it's in the overhead storage compartment where
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  Speaker 3: it could become a completely different and much more serious situation.
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  Speaker 3: But Brian, my concern has always been and continues to
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  Speaker 3: be and will be for the time being, the gate
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  Speaker 3: area is the biggest concern for me. If you've got
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of passengers out there waiting to board and
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  Speaker 3: a gate agent says, the overhead bins are almost full.
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  Speaker 1: We need some of you to check your luggage, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 3: And we won't charge you for it. And you have
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  Speaker 3: mom or dad coming up there. They're dragging four or
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  Speaker 3: five kids behind them. They're going crazy. And the gate
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  Speaker 3: agent's trying to ask the person. Do you have any
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  Speaker 3: electronic devices in this bag? Now, keep in mind, we
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  Speaker 3: can bring all this stuff through security. We can phone,
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  Speaker 3: cell phones, laptop. None of that's a problem. It just
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  Speaker 3: can't go into the cargo department. Well, if somebody asks
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  Speaker 3: a passenger, is there anything in your luggage? And they
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  Speaker 3: just forget. And it's easy to do at the gate.
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  Speaker 3: There's so many different distractions, things going on. Your mind's
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  Speaker 3: going in a bunch of different directions. You might be
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  Speaker 3: flying for the worst day of your life because of
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  Speaker 3: somebody that died. So you may not just have all
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  Speaker 3: your senses about you, and you surrender the bag, and
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  Speaker 3: it does have one of these devices in it, and
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  Speaker 3: it goes directly into the plane. It's not re-screened because
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  Speaker 3: it's already been screened. Into the cargo hold, the plane
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  Speaker 3: takes off. This fire breaks out. If one of these
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  Speaker 3: bags overheats, there's no way to.
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  Speaker 1: Get to it.
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  Speaker 3: There's a fire suppression system in the cargo compartment, yes,
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  Speaker 3: but it's not designed to counter the type of heat
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  Speaker 3: that these lithium batteries emit. So you would have a
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  Speaker 3: disaster on top of a disaster if one of these
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  Speaker 3: bad boys gets in there. And I hate to say
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  Speaker 3: it's a matter of time, but Brian, that's what scares me. Now,
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't prevent me from flying, doesn't prevent me from
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  Speaker 3: putting my mom, my wife, any of my grandkids on
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  Speaker 3: a plane, but that still remains a concern for me
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  Speaker 3: because we've got to do something about it. Now, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not smart enough to have the answer because I know
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  Speaker 3: we can't ban laptops and phones from airplanes, period. You
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  Speaker 3: can't give passengers bags to put this stuff in in
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  Speaker 3: a plane and say, don't you dare take it out
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  Speaker 3: until we get to the destination because, you know, people
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  Speaker 3: aren't going to do that. So it's just a serious situation.
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  Speaker 3: And we've been talking about lithium batteries since the Dreamliner
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  Speaker 3: was developed a number of years ago. And they had
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  Speaker 3: lithium battery compartments or products on there that was part
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  Speaker 3: of the construction. They kept overheating as they were designing
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  Speaker 3: the plane. So we've been dealing with this for a long,
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  Speaker 3: long time, and I'm just scared that just a mistake
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  Speaker 3: is all that keeps us away from having an airplane
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  Speaker 3: fall out of the sky.
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  Speaker 2: Sadly, I just can see it just right there in
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  Speaker 2: our future, you and I talking about one of these
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  Speaker 2: laptops catching fire in a cargo bin and the plane
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  Speaker 2: coming down. That's just such a scary thing.
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  Speaker 1: We've got to think about it now. Amen. And hopefully
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  Speaker 1: we can get that addressed.
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  Speaker 2: All right, coming up, we have, among other topics to
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  Speaker 2: go over with Jay before we part company today, the
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  Speaker 2: 737 MAX making it back into the news, and again,
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  Speaker 2: probably for all the wrong reasons. Don't go away.
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  Speaker 1: Be right back. Have you heard the news?
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  Speaker 2: 55KRC, the talk station. 850, 55KRC, the talk station. Friday,
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  Speaker 2: Tech Friday with Dave Adder tomorrow at 6.30. Every Thursday
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  Speaker 2: beginning at 8.30, iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay Ratliff. Jay Ratliff,
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  Speaker 2: the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft back in the news, and
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  Speaker 2: it's not about software upgrades they didn't let anybody know about,
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  Speaker 2: is it?
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  Speaker 3: No, they've noticed some cracks in the fuselage right around
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  Speaker 3: the emergency door, the one we board. And this is
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  Speaker 3: an airplane that's, what, five, six, seven, eight years old
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  Speaker 3: or so? So it's not exactly an old airplane, but
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  Speaker 3: they've noticed these cracks, and they're looking at this. Getting
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  Speaker 3: it addressed, fortunately, and typically what happens with this, and
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  Speaker 3: we also have headlines on the 787 Dreamliner that has
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  Speaker 3: shim gaps in the wing that have been noticed, but
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  Speaker 3: those are only on about 17 aircraft. But news when
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  Speaker 3: they have a situation like this, the FAA typically will
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  Speaker 3: issue a service directive and some sort of an advisory,
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  Speaker 3: and then they'll order it to be fixed. And also
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  Speaker 3: what will take place is they'll increase the inspection schedule.
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  Speaker 3: So that part of the aircraft is looked at more
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  Speaker 3: frequently than perhaps it would have been before. So a
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  Speaker 3: lot of these safety steps are going to be put
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  Speaker 3: in place. So I'm glad that it was spotted, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad it's getting fixed. But, of course, the Dreamliner
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  Speaker 3: and the Boeing 737 have been kind of the subject
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  Speaker 3: of discussions with some of the whistleblowers about rush production
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  Speaker 3: and faulty parts being used in certain parts of the airplane. Now,
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  Speaker 3: if any of that is true and any of that's
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  Speaker 3: related to this, Yeah, we certainly have cause for concern. Look,
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  Speaker 3: if I'm a flight attendant, I'm a lead flight attendant,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm sitting up front near the cockpit at that door,
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  Speaker 3: I might exercise my seniority and say, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to sit in the back of the airplane on
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  Speaker 3: this one. Somebody else can sit up here because those
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  Speaker 3: cracks are right around that door. So I don't think
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  Speaker 3: it's going to result in anything catastrophic, and I am
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  Speaker 3: glad that it's seen. But anytime you have a headline
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  Speaker 3: like that, Brian– You just hold your breath and you're thinking, oh, Lord,
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  Speaker 3: is it here we go again?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So it comes back many times to the suppliers that
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  Speaker 3: Boeing is using. Because remember, Boeing has just probably 100,000
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  Speaker 3: people that are responsible for supplying certain parts to certain
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  Speaker 3: companies for certain components on an aircraft. And any one
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  Speaker 3: of those, if they are faulty or not totally up
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  Speaker 3: to specs or maybe not even as good as they
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  Speaker 3: need to be, it can compromise the integrity of the aircraft.
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  Speaker 3: So Boeing counts on those vendors to do things. So
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  Speaker 3: sometimes it is Boeing's fault, and sometimes it's a vendor fault,
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  Speaker 3: or sometimes it's Boeing not properly overseeing the vendor. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a lot of things, you know, that are.
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  Speaker 1: Involved in the building of the airplane.
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  Speaker 3: What we do know is Boeing's having a good year.
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  Speaker 3: They kicked Airbus' butt in the first quarter, and I
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  Speaker 3: think Airbus is still slightly ahead of them, but I
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  Speaker 3: think Boeing will probably pass them. by the end of
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  Speaker 3: the year in aircraft delivery, and they've not done that in,
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: I don't know, 10 years or something. So the last
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: thing Boeing wants is anything to come out that's going
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: to slow down the production because if the FAA gets
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: concerned again, they're going to do just.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: What they did before.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: Guys, we're going to throttle back, and you're going to
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: make half of the normal number of whatever type of
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: aircraft it is until we're satisfied you're doing it correctly.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: Fair enough. And real quick here before we get to
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: hub delays, just a moment on can a pilot marry
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: people like– A ship captain, or is that a myth?
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: Get a couple that got married on a plane.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: This was a story where two people decided to elope,
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: only going to be the two of them. They're flying
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: to Las Vegas to get married there. Southwest Airlines flight
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: attendants find out what's going on. They find out they're
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: getting married when they get to Las Vegas, and they
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: immediately become wedding planners. They say, why wait till you
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: get there? You can get married here. The captain is
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: an ordained minister. So all of a sudden, before you
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: know it, these flight attendants are incredibly excited. Because, look,
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: these people try to make memories, special memories for people,
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: and they knew they.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Could do it here.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: And the couple who wanted to get away, not really
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: have a big wedding, now has 178 guests at their wedding.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: The captain comes out of the cockpit, performs the ceremony
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: in front of everybody, gets the rousing applause. He goes back,
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: keeps flying the airplane. which was probably on autopilot anyways.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: But we got two people in the cockpit.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: That's good. But just what a special memory for this
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: couple and everybody on board the airplane.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: And I'm sure there were probably a couple of fuddy-duddies
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: that were bothered because their sleep might have been interrupted
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: or the work. Who cares about that? This was a
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: special moment for two people that was shared by the
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: entire plane. Hats off Southwest Airlines. When I heard the story,
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: you could have told me, Jay, Guess which airline?
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: And I would have known it was Southwest.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: You always have high praise for them. Real quick, how's
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: it looking for travel, Jay?
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: I think Atlanta later in the day is going to
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: give us some weather delays.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: It's going to be late.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: Everything up until now is good, but probably 3 o'clock
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: on could see some delays going through there.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Rest of the country in good shape.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Thanks, as always, for your time.