Weather time. I bet it's a great day to fly. Next several days
we'll find out in a moment here, But today mostly Sunday highest seventy nine
of a night clear in fifty eight. Tomorrow mostly sunny, low humidity eighty
one clear of a night as well, sixty for the low. And on
Saturday, a sunny day with a high of eighty six sixty for degrees.
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wreck on east to seventy five and went and there on the left shoulder and
west found on the Reagan Highway an accident before seventy five on the left.
Chuck king Ramont fifty five kr se DE talk station. It's say twenty nine
fifty block are seed de talk station at a very happy Friday, eut you
made even more special and happier Becau Every Thursday at this time we talked with
iHeart MEATIA aviation expert Jay Ratliff, which is always a pleasure for my book
day. Jay Ratliff, welcome back, my friend. It's good to have
you on. Oh it's a pleasure to be here. I'm sure we only
get to do this once a week. I know I could do it every
day, honestly, you honestly, Jay, because I do enjoy hearing from
you, and you have some sometimes quite comical stories, but all very important.
Let's start off with one that's really important because you've been down this road
before. I mean, your career in the aviation industry goes back what like
forty years in nineteen eighty one is when I started working for a airline in
Monroe, Louisiana for public airlines. And I couldn't have found Louisiana on a
map at eighteen years of age growing up here in Ohio, say my life,
but I took the job anyway. Well, and that is over the
years, and you're involved in the aviation industry. You've dealt with the Secret
Service on presidential airport visits before, haven't you a lot. In fact,
we would work a lot with the advanced teams that would come in as they
were doing their sweeps and they would be asking different questions and then letting us
know which areas were going to be impacted on the day of the scheduled presidential
visit. And I mean they are insanely. I mean you've got o CD
and then you've got OCD extreme And that's what these these men and women that
I worked with were. They can see, they looked at every possible scenario,
uh and a combination of those that you know could be used as a
possible you know, hole in their security net. And they were thorough beyond
belief. And I do know that like when President Bush the candidate, came
to Dayton, Ohio, his Secret Service advanced detail was light. They didn't
have as many, obviously as you would have for a sitting president, but
they were still thorough in what they did. And when I was watching the
stuff all over the weekend and I was noticing that this building that was relatively
close to the President's platform, I thought, wait a minute, there's even
if the Secret Service didn't have the staffing, they would normally have a uniformed
officer on the roof, or they would surround the building on every side,
something that would just check that box. But sadly what happened was and Brian,
I'm hoping we'll eventually know what's going on here, but the idea that
something like that was left unattended, and then you had this insane response from
this woman that's supposed to be heading up the Secret Service saying that they didn't
put anybody because the roof was slope. I mean, gives me. These
are heroes that were in some of the most horrific battles all over the place,
on all kinds of terrain, and you're telling us. And of course
the other thing is that the shooters that took out that this would be assassin
were on a slope roof. I just you know, you look for ways
to kind of cover yourself, and that's what we're seeing here right now.
And it's just it's just sad because it's not the kind of secret Service that
I've been around. And watching the video of the poor girl that was having
a hard time putting her gun in a holster makes me think, what are
you doing guarding a possible you know, the next president of the United States.
Don't you assume her gender identity jave Rattleift, Well, I'm assuming she
doesn't know where to put her gun and her holster, those kinds of things.
And you know, because of your firearms training, that's second nature for
us. Oh yeah, you're talking about somebody that's hit that level. I
mean, there's you know, swipe swipe, where where's my holster? Put
it back? It was so embarrassing, tell me embarrassing. But also that
that look of I don't know what the hell I'm supposed to be gone right
now? Look, tell me what to do, right So I'm almost willing
to give her a pass for being incapable of holstering her weapon, but just
this look of oh my dear in the headlights, like I have no idea
what's going on right now? Like I have no idea what role is here?
And and and and and you know, for a lot of people who
have never been involved in that, Thank god, I've never been around that
kind of a situation. But you think you're trained for it and in the
background should certainly support the fact that you're there. But one of the things
that also struck me bright on over the weekend and Saturday. That I thought
was quite telling was anytime there's an emergency situation on an aircraft where they're going
to have to do an emergency landing, you have passengers that are just about
to freak ount the one thing they do. And I know this from the
studies and the things that we've looked at through a ton of accidents involving aviation,
passengers always look at the flight attendants. If the flight attendants are calm,
that helps to maintain a sense of calm in the cabin. If the
captain comes over the intercom, and you can check out British Airways Flight nine
where they lost all four engines of a seven forty seven and became a glider,
they were listening to the voice of the captain who was very calm,
and they thought, Okay, if he's this calm, then maybe the situation's
under control and there's a lot less panic and people pay attention more. And
when Donald Trump did not get rushed off the stage in a panic, get
me out of air type of thing, but stood up defiantly, so and
yes, I'm sure that was not from a security standpoint, what should happen.
He helped maintain the calm of that audience. If you had fifteen thousand
people running for exits, yeah, people would have been killed, they would
have been injured. But his leadership under duress there was in such a way
that he helped to maintain the calm in a horrific moment. And for me,
that was one of the things that I took away because from an aviation
standpoint, I know, in the cockpit or in the cabin area, passengers
looked to the flight attendants to understand, Okay, how serious is this?
Are we about to die? What have you? And President Trump really helped
to maintain the calm there and kept a lot of people from rushing for the
exits. And I certainly think that that type of thing is in stark contrast
to what we would have with any other leader. And I got to go
back to Ronald Reagan. You know, that's the type of tenacity you want
from a leader of the free world. Somebody says, okay, you know,
I mean I'm still here, buddy. Yeah. I didn't want to
say that, but I was thinking, that's what I'm here for. Jay
Rat left pause for a moment. We have a laptop catching on fire,
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time by brought to you by I heard mediaash expert Jay Ratliff. We've got
on the phone right now. Let's move over to away from a secret service.
And uh well it's epic failures too well. A laptop catching on fire
before takeoff. I know that when I flew last and I think I knew
this was the rule, But they ask you when you go to check in,
if you're checking bags, do your bags contain any computer like a laptops
or the east Cigarettes was something that was specifically mentioned because you cannot put those
in the cargo hold. You are allowed, however, to bring them on
the plane, and I think everybody knows that they bring their laptops on the
plane all the time. But it's widely known that those batteries, like in
Tesla's for example, can catch on fire almost spontaneously. So is that what
we're dealing with here? It is, In fact, those liftian batteries have
been known to overheat, and there's just been some some real dramatic photos from
airports security around the world when people are walking and all of a sudden their
backpack starts to smolder and catch on fire, as these batteries overheat and catch
on fire. And you know, flight of senants are trained anytime that they've
got this. Many air aircraft have fire suppression bags that these types of things
would go into, so they're trained. But this was an an American Airlines
flight that was our flight in San Francisco, rather, that was in the
process of boarding flight twenty forty five, and one of the passengers they're back
pack started to smoke and all of a sudden the laptop was overheating, about
to catch on fire. Or did captain orders an emergency evacuation as the cabin
fills with smoke. They're still at the gate, so all the flight attendants
are at their stations. They popped the emergency exits out, everybody goes.
They did exactly what they should have done. It was something that you know
it was. It was done flawlessly. And the two things I'll note from
this evacuation is the American Airlines flight attendants don't get paid until the door is
shut. Technically, these men and women were evacuating these people off of the
aircraft and they weren't getting paid for it. And why we are okay with
that is beyond me, but that continues to be the case. The other
thing that infuriated me was the absolute idiots who the video show inside the airplane
were stopping to collect their overhead Brian, I'm telling you, and you know,
this is a huge pet peeve of mine, because people have died because
of the idiots that stop to collect those bags and down the emergency slide they
go, even though the uniform flight attendants are telling everybody leave those larger bags,
get off the plane, get off the plane. You've got these people
that all takes is one person to do it, and everybody else does it.
But Brian, they need the FAA needs to start finding individuals ten thousand
dollars a bag that you take that are head storage department. All you have
to do is look at the video of people walking across the ramp. Well,
there's goofus pulling two bags on wheels. You know, those weren't under
his seat in front of him, and boom, Okay, he gets charged
twenty thousand dollars. They're not doing it, and they need to. We're
seeing the evacuation times of aircraft in emergency situations getting longer and longer and longer.
Why because people are grabbing their bags and unless they know and we properly
communicate in advance. Look, if you're one of these people that do this,
just get ready because you're going to get fined this much money from the
Federal Aviation ministraat And it wouldn't stop it, but it certainly would put a
way to try to at least reduce it. Look, yeah, a word
would definitely get out that will be widely reported in the news. I mean
that would go and I would have it plastered all over the TSA Lanesn't you
know when you're waiting to be screened have things everywhere with a picture of goofus
number one that was fined twenty thousand dollars because this is what he did,
or this lady that did this, and I would have their mug shots with
the amount they were fined. Underneath it was signed like, hey, flying
is expensive enough, don't make it worse, you know, don't be this
kind of person, because those kinds of things in danger lives. Go back
and look at an aeroflot like that we had a few years ago that had
seventy eight souls on board the back of the airplanes on fire. People are
desperately rushing for the exits, and the video shows them coming out, coming
out, coming out, and then stops nothing for like seven or eight ten
seconds. And the next guy that comes out carrying three big carry on bages,
forty one people behind him died. So when you see, I mean,
and that's what it's going to take for the FAA sadly to say,
you know, gee wiz, I think, Brian, we need to do
something about this. You think, I mean, it's out there already,
it's not hard to see, and you've got people that are endangering lives,
and it's just why we put up with it. I don't know. Well
you just put an exclamation point on it with that story. Lord almighty,
well, we only have time for a hub delays as we part company this
week, Jay Ratlift to tell us how it is to fly today, you
can look at I think Houston's probably going to be the problem child of the
day. Might have issues later in the day in Philadelphia, and hopefully the
heat won't be too bad because you know, Southwest Airlines is having problems with
exploding soda cans that are getting so hot. About twenty their flight attendants have
been injured, some with stitches. So you can google the image on exploding
soda cans. It's a real story, but it looks like Houston's. If
you're flighting United Airlines, certainly you get to the airport extra early. Other
than that should be god day to fly, Jay Raytlift. Always this distinct
pleasure to have you on the fifty five Casey Morning Shore every week. We'll
we look forward to next Thursday and another report and meantime, best of health
and hello to your better half. All right, will take care of that,
Brian, think you much, sir? My distinct pleasure, Jay Ratliffe
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