WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:02.640 Generalin with the work ash today cold twenty two for 2 00:00:02.680 --> 00:00:06.799 the high with cloudy sky, slick roads. I'm sure Chuck 3 00:00:06.839 --> 00:00:09.800 will address that momentarily. Over night low of thirteen with clouds, 4 00:00:09.919 --> 00:00:13.119 high thirty tomorrow, flood a morning ends at one thirty. 5 00:00:13.679 --> 00:00:15.759 There'll be some sun tomorrow as well, down to thirteen. 6 00:00:15.800 --> 00:00:18.120 Every night with clouds and a clear Saturday going up 7 00:00:18.120 --> 00:00:22.199 to thirty seven thirteen. Now Here is Chuck on traffic. 8 00:00:23.079 --> 00:00:25.600 From the uc GOT Traffic Center. You see healthy find 9 00:00:25.640 --> 00:00:29.719 comprehensive care that's so personal it makes your best tomorrow possible. 10 00:00:29.800 --> 00:00:33.840 That's boundless care for better outcomes. Expect more at ucehealth 11 00:00:33.880 --> 00:00:38.000 dot com. Problems southbound seventy five continue. The highway shut 12 00:00:38.039 --> 00:00:40.759 down at Paddock due to an early morning accident near 13 00:00:40.880 --> 00:00:45.119 the lateral tad. Traffic backs through Lachland. Now northbound seventy 14 00:00:45.159 --> 00:00:48.240 five is shut down due to an accident before you 15 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:51.600 get to Tylers, though, and traffic is backing up through Westchester. 16 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:54.920 Chuck Ingram on fifty five KR see the talk station. 17 00:00:56.920 --> 00:01:02.039 Hey twenty nine fifty five KRCD talk station Heaby Friday 18 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:05.079 Eve real quick here shout out to vets and brus 19 00:01:05.159 --> 00:01:07.879 Mattha Maris goes out and buys veterans beers ten dollars 20 00:01:07.879 --> 00:01:10.959 donation and buys a veteran a beer, and the balance 21 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:14.840 goes to a wonderful organization called Patriots Landing. He's raised 22 00:01:14.840 --> 00:01:18.840 almost twenty one thousand dollars through your donations for Patriots 23 00:01:18.920 --> 00:01:22.959 Landing about thirty four hundred plus beer. So it's a 24 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:28.040 great organization. They're going to be at Cartridge Brewery tonight 25 00:01:28.239 --> 00:01:31.519 music Beers for Veterans. The event kicks off at five 26 00:01:31.560 --> 00:01:34.040 and last till nine, and a whole bunch of other 27 00:01:34.200 --> 00:01:36.280 veteran organization is going to be there as well. So 28 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:42.200 Cartridge Breweries on Granden Road on fourrand, show up, buy 29 00:01:42.200 --> 00:01:43.760 a veteran a beer, or if you're a veteran, go 30 00:01:43.760 --> 00:01:47.680 ahead and enjoy a free beer. Welcome back. iHeartMedia aviation expert, 31 00:01:47.760 --> 00:01:49.959 my dear friend Jay Ratliff. It's always a pleasure to 32 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:50.680 have you on the show. 33 00:01:51.519 --> 00:01:54.560 Hey, I love all the veteran support things that you have, 34 00:01:54.680 --> 00:01:56.439 so I appreciate that I'm not a beer drinker, but 35 00:01:56.680 --> 00:01:57.319 I love hearing it. 36 00:01:57.480 --> 00:01:59.319 Well, you could buy a beer for a veteran, you 37 00:01:59.319 --> 00:02:00.760 don't have to drink, you know. 38 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:03.120 Well, I would buy more than one for a fac 39 00:02:03.319 --> 00:02:07.079 But yes, those men and women allowed me to do 40 00:02:07.159 --> 00:02:09.520 what I do and I'll. 41 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:10.159 Forever be thankful. 42 00:02:10.280 --> 00:02:13.400 Amen, brother, absolutely, Well, let's get the latest on this 43 00:02:13.439 --> 00:02:16.080 Delta Toronto crash. I finally got to see the video 44 00:02:16.120 --> 00:02:19.479 of that and what the hell happened. I was just 45 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:21.560 wondering all day long when it first was reported and 46 00:02:21.599 --> 00:02:23.960 I saw photographs of the plane on its back, I'm like, 47 00:02:23.960 --> 00:02:25.879 how in the hell did it get on its back? 48 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:28.400 But when you watch the video, you see that was 49 00:02:28.439 --> 00:02:30.840 it the wind. I know there's some speculation that was 50 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:34.240 like a wind shear coming across the from the west 51 00:02:34.280 --> 00:02:36.919 side and the plane was what landing south to north 52 00:02:37.039 --> 00:02:38.960 or north to south. I don't know. You explained it. 53 00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:40.120 Well, the. 54 00:02:41.639 --> 00:02:43.039 First thing I look at any time we got a 55 00:02:43.080 --> 00:02:46.000 situation like this is the weather. Did the weather perhaps 56 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:50.080 have a contributing contribute to whatever took place? And here 57 00:02:50.120 --> 00:02:52.840 we were dealing with crosswinds thirty to forty miles an hour, 58 00:02:52.879 --> 00:02:57.000 which aircraft can handle. It's a bit problematic, but nothing 59 00:02:57.039 --> 00:03:00.599 that today's flight cruise can't handle. They normally increase their 60 00:03:00.919 --> 00:03:03.400 approach speed just a bit to offset what they're going 61 00:03:03.479 --> 00:03:05.639 to be dealing with. On the crosswind and they go 62 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:09.360 through the normal the process. I saw the video though, 63 00:03:09.400 --> 00:03:14.319 and it shocked me because I'm thinking, Okay, I understand 64 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:20.520 you have a slightly increased speed on arrival, but the 65 00:03:20.560 --> 00:03:23.919 angle that the aircraft comes into the runway and the 66 00:03:23.960 --> 00:03:27.840 speed on which it comes in. Matthew Buckley, who was 67 00:03:27.919 --> 00:03:31.280 a fighter pilot, I heard him quoted on a news 68 00:03:32.479 --> 00:03:36.280 feed this week. He said that was an aircraft carrier landing, 69 00:03:36.479 --> 00:03:39.800 and I thought that was the perfect way to phrase it, 70 00:03:40.159 --> 00:03:43.919 because typically when an aircraft comes in right before you 71 00:03:44.039 --> 00:03:47.719 have the touchdown, what the crew tends to do is 72 00:03:47.919 --> 00:03:50.000 to pull the nose up just a bit. They flared up, 73 00:03:50.360 --> 00:03:52.479 so just like you remember the space shield of landing, 74 00:03:52.520 --> 00:03:56.039 the rear gears come down first and then slowly the 75 00:03:56.039 --> 00:04:00.159 front rotates down to where the landing gear touches down. Here, 76 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:03.400 all three seemed to almost hit the same time and 77 00:04:03.560 --> 00:04:06.319 at such a speed that it looked like the force 78 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:09.080 of that could have caused and I'm not sure because 79 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:12.280 the investigation is just beginning. The right rear landing gear 80 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:16.000 to collapse. So once you have the right landing gear collapse, 81 00:04:16.120 --> 00:04:19.040 everything shifts to the right. Yeah, You then have the 82 00:04:19.079 --> 00:04:23.040 wing that comes ripped off of the aircraft. It may 83 00:04:23.079 --> 00:04:27.839 have been the landing gear helped to take the wing off, 84 00:04:27.839 --> 00:04:30.279 we don't know. And then you've still have the left 85 00:04:30.279 --> 00:04:32.680 wing that's on the aircraft, that's still doing what it's 86 00:04:32.680 --> 00:04:36.000 supposed to be doing fine. So what happens was absent 87 00:04:36.040 --> 00:04:39.480 a white absent right wing. You now see the aircraft turn, 88 00:04:39.959 --> 00:04:43.439 it pivots up and comes around to where it's on 89 00:04:43.560 --> 00:04:46.759 its top. Now, one of the things I'm glad for 90 00:04:46.879 --> 00:04:49.519 it is that the fuel that was in the right 91 00:04:49.560 --> 00:04:53.680 wing was detached and was trailing the fuselage. 92 00:04:54.319 --> 00:04:54.639 That was. 93 00:04:56.319 --> 00:05:00.680 Definitely a miracle there, because you had jet fuel. Aviation 94 00:05:00.759 --> 00:05:04.120 has gone everywhere, and that part that was on fire 95 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:06.920 and of course there's always the fear of explosion, and 96 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:10.639 it was separated from the aircraft, which was good, And 97 00:05:10.959 --> 00:05:14.360 the entire interior of the aircraft did exactly what it 98 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:17.959 should have. The fuselage remained intact. The seats which have 99 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:21.600 been totally and completely upgraded over the decades, which now 100 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:24.680 I think they're rated for sixteen g's of force, they 101 00:05:24.680 --> 00:05:28.279 didn't go anywhere. You had everybody hopefully strapped in as 102 00:05:28.279 --> 00:05:31.839 they should have been. You have fire retardant materials inside 103 00:05:31.839 --> 00:05:34.800 the aircraft. Again, because we've learned over the years and 104 00:05:34.800 --> 00:05:39.199 we've made things safer. That aircraft in that accident was 105 00:05:39.240 --> 00:05:43.680 probably the poster child for everything that the NTSB has 106 00:05:43.879 --> 00:05:46.079 been able to do over the last thirty forty years 107 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:49.959 and constantly learning from every accident in their accident, so 108 00:05:50.040 --> 00:05:54.040 every aspect of aircraft aviation we can make safer. And 109 00:05:54.079 --> 00:05:55.800 then of course you had the flight attendants do an 110 00:05:55.800 --> 00:05:59.240 incredible job getting people out of the aircraft. Remember, the 111 00:05:59.279 --> 00:06:01.639 easiest thing to do is to throw open that door 112 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:04.720 to get everybody out. The problem is you're inverted. So 113 00:06:04.839 --> 00:06:08.839 had they not remembered to disengage the emergency slides, you 114 00:06:08.879 --> 00:06:11.600 open that door and all they're gonna do is drop again. 115 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:15.439 These flight attendants, I cannot brag on their training enough. 116 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:17.800 You've got all of this going on. It was happening 117 00:06:17.800 --> 00:06:18.439 in seconds. 118 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:22.199 They're getting everybody off the aircraft and they did their 119 00:06:22.279 --> 00:06:25.399 typical great job. And you know, it reminded me because 120 00:06:25.399 --> 00:06:28.560 they're calling this a miracle in Toronto. It was twenty 121 00:06:28.639 --> 00:06:30.959 years ago we had a miracle in Toronto. An Air 122 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:33.480 France flight comes in lands Long. 123 00:06:33.439 --> 00:06:34.000 Hits Hard. 124 00:06:34.879 --> 00:06:38.279 Kind of a similar situation here plane breaks apart, catches 125 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:40.600 on fire, three hundred and nine people on board. 126 00:06:40.959 --> 00:06:42.360 The plane's about to explode. 127 00:06:42.759 --> 00:06:45.120 Now to board three hundred and nine people. It takes 128 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:46.160 you forty. 129 00:06:45.839 --> 00:06:47.399 Five minutes or so. 130 00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:50.560 The flight attendant's got everybody off in less than ninety seconds. 131 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:54.959 Airplane blows up, no fatalities. You look at the images 132 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:57.199 of air France three POT fifty eight a Google image, 133 00:06:57.279 --> 00:06:59.839 and aircraft is completely burnt, totally. 134 00:06:59.879 --> 00:07:00.439 It's gone. 135 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:05.040 Yeah, and you're thinking, good lord, did anybody survive? Everyone survived. 136 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:07.639 The flight attendants did a great job, you know. And 137 00:07:07.680 --> 00:07:09.560 we know that because of all the people who felt 138 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:12.480 compelled before they got out of the aircraft to video 139 00:07:12.600 --> 00:07:15.399 everything that was going on, because look, I'm upside down. 140 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:17.360 The airplane may be on fire, of course, and I'm 141 00:07:17.360 --> 00:07:19.360 going to video what's going on now. I'm gonna get 142 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:22.000 my butt off that airplane. But some people thought videoing 143 00:07:22.040 --> 00:07:24.839 it was I might get alike here, Yeah, let's. 144 00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:27.480 Do it and then go and then change my underwear. Honestly, 145 00:07:28.519 --> 00:07:29.519 Oh my lord. 146 00:07:29.279 --> 00:07:32.800 It's just these people. I just yes, people die. I'm 147 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:35.399 gonna get next to a buffalo. I'm gonna love this cliff. 148 00:07:35.519 --> 00:07:38.720 It just well, we refer to that as you know, 149 00:07:38.759 --> 00:07:41.879 the the Darwin theory of evolution, you're the survival of 150 00:07:41.920 --> 00:07:44.639 the fittest. We'll bring Jay back. We got several more 151 00:07:44.680 --> 00:07:47.199 things to talk about with our heart Media Aviation Expert 152 00:07:47.279 --> 00:07:48.800 Jay Rath. If we're gonna do that, just hang on 153 00:07:49.480 --> 00:07:55.680 fifty five KRC. My name is Kyle Tigisim. It's a 154 00:07:55.800 --> 00:08:00.800 thirty nine. If you've got kir CD talk station, it's Thursday. 155 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:04.079 It's I heard Media avah nextpert Jay rat left time 156 00:08:04.120 --> 00:08:06.480 and Jay have of pivoting over to Trump and his 157 00:08:06.839 --> 00:08:11.800 firing of FAA employees, and everyone seems to want to 158 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:15.199 blame him for every airplane disaster it's out there. When 159 00:08:15.480 --> 00:08:17.920 Donald Trump wasn't around, it didn't have anything to do 160 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:20.160 with it, but he didn't get rid of some FAA 161 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:25.720 employees and apparently looking to upgrade the FAA flight system 162 00:08:25.759 --> 00:08:28.839 because what it's a legacy system for like the nineteen 163 00:08:28.920 --> 00:08:29.720 fifties or something. 164 00:08:29.800 --> 00:08:32.679 Right, Oh, you're being kind, but yes, at least the 165 00:08:32.759 --> 00:08:35.519 nineteen fifties, and you and I've talked about the need 166 00:08:35.559 --> 00:08:40.519 for upgrading that system. Incredible. It's to use the word 167 00:08:40.639 --> 00:08:43.559 upgrade is an insult to the word upgrade. It's just 168 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:47.240 it needs to be blown up and redone. So President 169 00:08:47.279 --> 00:08:50.480 Trump can bring in the SpaceX people that can land 170 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:54.080 a rocket. I think that they can figure out a 171 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:57.399 way to upgrade significantly what we. 172 00:08:57.399 --> 00:08:58.960 Have with the air traffic control system. 173 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:02.519 And I'm incredibly excited because of all the presidents we've 174 00:09:02.519 --> 00:09:06.000 had for the last twenty thirty forty years, you've heard 175 00:09:06.120 --> 00:09:09.000 many of them talk about the need for devoting the 176 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:13.600 necessary resources and to get things improved as much as possible. 177 00:09:13.879 --> 00:09:16.879 At the Federal Aviation Administration, rarely does it happen. 178 00:09:17.159 --> 00:09:17.279 Now. 179 00:09:17.360 --> 00:09:22.559 We've had a few projects next gen tracking system that 180 00:09:22.919 --> 00:09:26.840 has been so decades behind schedule, so far over costs, 181 00:09:27.159 --> 00:09:30.720 it's been ridiculous. But the idea of getting this kind 182 00:09:30.759 --> 00:09:33.759 of attention now thrills me because if they can attack 183 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:35.960 it like the Manhattan Project, knock it out in two 184 00:09:36.039 --> 00:09:38.919 or three years, and come out with something that's state 185 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:41.000 of the art, it means that even if we have 186 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:45.519 air traffic controllers that are working shorthanded as we are 187 00:09:45.559 --> 00:09:48.200 across the country, let's at least give them the state 188 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:51.440 of the art technology. Let's make it as easy on 189 00:09:51.559 --> 00:09:54.159 them as we can to do their jobs, which of course, 190 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:57.919 is just going to make everything that much more safe. 191 00:09:58.320 --> 00:09:59.919 And of course, when Donald Trump comes. 192 00:09:59.799 --> 00:10:03.639 Out and fires four hundred or three hundred people from 193 00:10:03.639 --> 00:10:07.879 the FAA, that's what everybody's screaming about. And you know, 194 00:10:07.919 --> 00:10:11.399 they asked the Delta CEO at Bastion this week I 195 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:14.000 think it was yesterday about that very point, and he 196 00:10:14.080 --> 00:10:15.960 just shrugged it off. He said, look, you know about 197 00:10:15.960 --> 00:10:19.440 three or four hundred people. They were probationary employees, none 198 00:10:19.480 --> 00:10:22.240 of them air traffic control, none of them in a 199 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:27.120 critical support position. And yeah, it was just part of 200 00:10:27.159 --> 00:10:30.200 all the trimming that's taking place right now. 201 00:10:30.360 --> 00:10:30.440 Now. 202 00:10:30.480 --> 00:10:32.879 I'll be the first to admit the optics look horrible, 203 00:10:33.279 --> 00:10:35.960 but the bottom line is the idea that these were 204 00:10:36.279 --> 00:10:40.399 air traffic controllers and you know, individual no, they were 205 00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:43.360 probationary employees. A lot of them are being interviewed and 206 00:10:43.399 --> 00:10:45.840 you would think they were the head of the FAA, 207 00:10:45.879 --> 00:10:48.759 but that's not the case. So what we have as 208 00:10:48.799 --> 00:10:51.679 as far as the situation here is if we can 209 00:10:51.720 --> 00:10:55.759 get everything upgraded and we can devote more time in 210 00:10:55.799 --> 00:11:00.159 getting a non DEI approach to air traffic controllers, I 211 00:11:00.240 --> 00:11:01.720 think we're going to be in good shape because it 212 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:03.600 was a number of years ago. The FAA wanted to 213 00:11:03.639 --> 00:11:07.120 be more inclusive. Nothing wrong with that, but they significantly 214 00:11:07.159 --> 00:11:10.559 lowered the standards for us bringing in individuals from a 215 00:11:10.639 --> 00:11:13.840 qualification standpoint, and that's where I have my issue. I 216 00:11:13.840 --> 00:11:17.159 don't care about anybody's whatever. I just want to make 217 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:20.799 sure that they're the most qualified individual, male, female, whatever 218 00:11:21.519 --> 00:11:24.720 for that position. And as long as that's the focus, 219 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:27.240 then that's great. I don't want to have a DEI 220 00:11:27.320 --> 00:11:30.279 policy like United wants for pilots where they want twenty 221 00:11:30.279 --> 00:11:33.440 percent of their pilots hired to be women or minorities. 222 00:11:33.639 --> 00:11:37.360 That's a great goal, but to have that stated means 223 00:11:37.399 --> 00:11:40.159 you're going to say no to very qualified people to 224 00:11:40.279 --> 00:11:44.480 bring in less qualified people. And even though some will say, well, 225 00:11:44.679 --> 00:11:49.279 that's not a downgrade and safety because they're all qualified. Look, 226 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:52.480 if I've got an attorney as fifty years experience versus 227 00:11:52.559 --> 00:11:55.039 woman that's got ten years experience, I know which one 228 00:11:55.039 --> 00:11:55.600 I want to go with. 229 00:11:55.840 --> 00:11:56.159 Problem. 230 00:11:56.480 --> 00:11:59.480 You are right on that. All right, let's move over. 231 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:02.399 There was another uh and Brian, excuse me, I I 232 00:12:02.399 --> 00:12:07.159 do have an attorney question for you. Yeah, the Delta 233 00:12:07.200 --> 00:12:09.879 Airlines is coming out offering the people on the Toronto Flame, 234 00:12:10.840 --> 00:12:11.799 thirty thousand. 235 00:12:11.559 --> 00:12:14.200 Dollars, no strings attached. 236 00:12:14.720 --> 00:12:17.000 And the thought is it would not prevent you from 237 00:12:17.039 --> 00:12:20.759 further lawsuits or anything you want to do legally down 238 00:12:20.799 --> 00:12:23.360 the road. I want to trust Delta to do this, 239 00:12:23.559 --> 00:12:26.320 I really do, because it's such a nice gesture. 240 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:28.000 But I would. 241 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:31.279 Wonder, from your hat and your experience, what would you 242 00:12:31.279 --> 00:12:34.399 think about somebody taking that thirty thousand dollars from Delta. 243 00:12:34.759 --> 00:12:37.200 Well, if it didn't come with strings attached, because I 244 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:39.639 would figure that they would have a well a settlement 245 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:42.320 agreement form pre prepared that by signing on the dotted 246 00:12:42.360 --> 00:12:44.720 line and accepting thirty thousand dollars, you agree to release 247 00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:47.799 and Delta from all further liability. But if they're just 248 00:12:47.879 --> 00:12:51.279 saying here, I don't know that can necessarily impact it. 249 00:12:51.360 --> 00:12:54.879 Accept at trial when you were asking for your damages, 250 00:12:54.960 --> 00:12:56.919 and Delta's attorneys, if you have to go through the 251 00:12:56.960 --> 00:12:59.279 trial process, would say, well, it needs to be reddet 252 00:12:59.279 --> 00:13:01.440 We did give you third thousand dollars, right, so you're 253 00:13:01.759 --> 00:13:04.440 part of your pain and suffering or your economic damages 254 00:13:04.519 --> 00:13:08.440 or whatever has already been reduced by that amount. So 255 00:13:08.720 --> 00:13:12.559 but since you're talking about you know theoretical numbers like 256 00:13:12.559 --> 00:13:14.639 how much do you get for pain and suffering and 257 00:13:14.679 --> 00:13:18.279 emotional damage? What does that that figure really even mean? 258 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:22.000 So it's a random figure that a jury might award 259 00:13:22.039 --> 00:13:23.840 you that you're going to be reduced by a thirty 260 00:13:23.879 --> 00:13:27.399 thousand dollars amount of okay whatever. Maybe the jury gave 261 00:13:27.440 --> 00:13:30.120 the guy thirty thousand dollars more than he really even needed. 262 00:13:30.200 --> 00:13:33.080 I don't know. Okay, it's like out the. 263 00:13:33.039 --> 00:13:34.960 Idea that you would be comfortable with. It makes me 264 00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:38.960 feel better about it because, you know, sadly, in my 265 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:42.480 career there were times I had to deal with individuals 266 00:13:42.480 --> 00:13:45.360 that survived plane crashes, some that were the sole survivors 267 00:13:45.559 --> 00:13:49.679 of commercial crashes. And I'm thrilled that everybody survived, but 268 00:13:50.200 --> 00:13:54.080 we would be remiss it not remembering that the emotional 269 00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:56.240 stress that these individuals went through is going to be 270 00:13:56.279 --> 00:13:58.080 something that for many of them, they're going to be 271 00:13:58.159 --> 00:14:00.000 living with and coping with for the rest of their life. 272 00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:02.559 Yeah, like a decision to never fly again because I 273 00:14:02.600 --> 00:14:05.960 almost died, I can understand that a lot. Yeah, let's pause. 274 00:14:07.639 --> 00:14:10.320 We're going to talk about the other midair collision between 275 00:14:10.320 --> 00:14:14.159 the General Aviation airplanes and then also a word or 276 00:14:14.159 --> 00:14:17.440 two about breaking wheelchairs plus hub delays. One more with 277 00:14:17.600 --> 00:14:21.799 Jay Ratliff, Hang around fifty five car the talk station. 278 00:14:22.240 --> 00:14:25.080 One more time for the nine weather forecast twenty two 279 00:14:25.080 --> 00:14:27.200 for the high today with clouds over night, little thirteen 280 00:14:27.279 --> 00:14:31.159 with clouds thirty with some sun tomorrow and the floodbarning 281 00:14:31.240 --> 00:14:34.679 ending at one thirty, partly cloudie overnight with a little 282 00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:39.320 thirteen Saturday clearing up and a high thirty seven thirteen 283 00:14:39.320 --> 00:14:41.919 degrees Right now, Time for final traffic chuck from the 284 00:14:42.039 --> 00:14:43.120 UCL Tramping Center. 285 00:14:43.240 --> 00:14:46.240 You see health go find comprehensive care that's so personal 286 00:14:46.279 --> 00:14:49.200 it makes your best tomorrow possible. That's boundless care for 287 00:14:49.320 --> 00:14:53.000 better outcomes. Expect more hot you seehealth dot com. Northbound 288 00:14:53.080 --> 00:14:56.080 seventy five is shut down. That's Cincinnati Dton Road due 289 00:14:56.080 --> 00:14:59.759 to an accident. Went back to traffic through Westchester. Southbound 290 00:14:59.759 --> 00:15:04.000 seven five closed at Paddock due to an early morning wreck. 291 00:15:04.440 --> 00:15:08.120 There's an accident in northbound seventy one and fighter ingraman 292 00:15:08.200 --> 00:15:09.159 fifty five tiers. 293 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:14.519 The talk station a forty eight fift five krcdtalk station. 294 00:15:14.799 --> 00:15:18.039 One more time with I Heart Media Avace expert Jay Ratliff, 295 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:20.240 and what's the story on the two planes that flew 296 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:21.000 into each other. 297 00:15:21.080 --> 00:15:24.600 Jay, you know, anytime we have a general aviation accident, 298 00:15:24.759 --> 00:15:26.360 now it's going to make front lines. 299 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:29.120 Yeah, headlines. It normally doesn't. 300 00:15:29.720 --> 00:15:32.600 Sadly, we might have eight or ten people every week 301 00:15:32.840 --> 00:15:35.840 that die in general aviation accidents. So when we had 302 00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:39.919 these two planes collide in outside of Tucson nowt about 303 00:15:39.919 --> 00:15:42.480 twenty five miles outside of Tucson at a regional airport, 304 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:45.960 it just raises everybody's concern over flying. 305 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:47.639 But one of them. 306 00:15:47.519 --> 00:15:49.639 Was Assessina and those that have flown in Assessin and 307 00:15:49.720 --> 00:15:53.279 ohs the wings over your head, the blind spot is 308 00:15:53.279 --> 00:15:57.000 above you. And the other airplane involved was an aircraft 309 00:15:57.000 --> 00:15:59.000 that was a low wing, the kind you step onto 310 00:15:59.039 --> 00:16:01.600 the wing and then jump in to the end of 311 00:16:01.600 --> 00:16:04.679 the interior of the airplane where the blind spot is underneath. 312 00:16:05.200 --> 00:16:07.039 And Brian, we had a situation here in Cincinnati a 313 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:08.679 number of years ago, and we've had them around the 314 00:16:08.679 --> 00:16:12.120 country where you have this type of scenario where the 315 00:16:12.120 --> 00:16:14.799 cessna can't see above it and the other airplane can't 316 00:16:14.799 --> 00:16:18.399 see below it, And there's times that they occupy the 317 00:16:18.440 --> 00:16:22.480 same airspace collide and sometimes fatalities occur and I suspect 318 00:16:22.759 --> 00:16:25.879 that's what probably happened here. They do not have an 319 00:16:25.919 --> 00:16:30.600 air traffic control tower at this Minera Regional Airport. They've 320 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:33.480 been approved for one, but they're five years behind. COVID 321 00:16:33.480 --> 00:16:36.480 really set them back. So you had pilots that were 322 00:16:36.519 --> 00:16:39.720 in essence talking to everyone as they were doing what 323 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:43.759 they were doing. And again, we just had two airplanes 324 00:16:43.799 --> 00:16:46.080 that were in the wrong position here, at least one 325 00:16:46.120 --> 00:16:48.879 of them. And you know, the NTSB will find out why. 326 00:16:48.960 --> 00:16:51.879 But remember, we'll have four or five, maybe six hundred 327 00:16:51.960 --> 00:16:55.960 fatalities every year on general aviation. So in the sixteen 328 00:16:56.039 --> 00:16:59.000 years we went without an accident here in the United States, commercially, 329 00:16:59.360 --> 00:17:02.200 there were probably seven to eight nine thousand fatalities on 330 00:17:02.279 --> 00:17:06.279 general aviation. So wow, it's it's a norm. So I'm 331 00:17:06.319 --> 00:17:08.480 just trying to keep things in proper perspective so people 332 00:17:08.519 --> 00:17:10.680 don't think we're having more planes swallow of the guy 333 00:17:10.720 --> 00:17:13.279 now than we've ever had, because that simply wouldn't be 334 00:17:13.319 --> 00:17:14.119 an accurate statement. 335 00:17:14.359 --> 00:17:17.279 Well, my dad had a pilot's license. He hadn't flown 336 00:17:17.359 --> 00:17:19.799 since I think before I was since I was before 337 00:17:19.839 --> 00:17:22.640 I was born, but he knew aviation and he knew 338 00:17:22.680 --> 00:17:25.160 the concepts and everything. Anyway, when they were in Alaska 339 00:17:25.200 --> 00:17:28.319 and doing one of those you know, flyover Alaska airplane 340 00:17:28.400 --> 00:17:32.720 kind of deals, and he called the pilot's attention to 341 00:17:33.000 --> 00:17:35.880 a very close aircraft, you know, said he two o'clock, 342 00:17:35.960 --> 00:17:40.359 two o'clock, and maybe avoided a collision because they're just 343 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:42.759 flying around doing sight seeing. Well, I think it was 344 00:17:42.799 --> 00:17:44.480 only a couple weeks later in the news, and it's 345 00:17:44.519 --> 00:17:46.480 the reason he brought the story up. Two of them 346 00:17:46.519 --> 00:17:47.880 flew into each other up there. 347 00:17:48.279 --> 00:17:52.279 Yeah, yep, it happens, and it's happening less now because 348 00:17:52.319 --> 00:17:56.960 we have technology that continues to improve and a lot 349 00:17:57.000 --> 00:18:00.720 more of a situational awareness on the training side. But sadly, 350 00:18:00.880 --> 00:18:04.160 you have a lot of people that are pilots that 351 00:18:04.200 --> 00:18:06.680 are trying to increase the number of their flight hours 352 00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:09.559 so they can qualify to become commercial pilots. They're flying 353 00:18:09.559 --> 00:18:13.960 some of these smaller tour type airplanes and they don't 354 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:15.960 have quite the experience that we would like them to have, 355 00:18:16.039 --> 00:18:18.319 and sadly sometimes mistakes take place. 356 00:18:18.799 --> 00:18:23.039 All right, Moving over to breaking wheelchairs, this is a thing. 357 00:18:24.319 --> 00:18:27.400 Well airlines have made it a thing because over the 358 00:18:27.440 --> 00:18:32.119 last several years they have broken loss delayed all kinds 359 00:18:32.200 --> 00:18:35.240 of wheelchairs to the point that the Biden administration lasts 360 00:18:35.279 --> 00:18:39.079 fall through. The Department of Transportation came out with a 361 00:18:39.720 --> 00:18:43.000 ruling that said, look, airlines are responsible for the handling 362 00:18:43.039 --> 00:18:45.920 of wheelchairs and disabled passengers because Brian, when you have 363 00:18:45.920 --> 00:18:49.400 a situation where someone is unable to walk, they have 364 00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:51.559 to be carried on and off the aircraft, and the 365 00:18:51.599 --> 00:18:55.079 airline doesn't have an aisle chair, the smaller narrow thing 366 00:18:55.119 --> 00:18:58.599 you put a person on, getting them off their wheelchair 367 00:18:58.599 --> 00:19:00.839 in the jet bridge and then taking back to Road 368 00:19:00.920 --> 00:19:04.359 ten or something. Some airlines don't have those at the 369 00:19:04.400 --> 00:19:07.119 gate like they're supposed to, even though they have advanced warning, 370 00:19:07.400 --> 00:19:10.920 and some passengers have been forced to crawl out of 371 00:19:10.960 --> 00:19:13.880 the airplane so they can be then placed into their wheelchair. 372 00:19:13.960 --> 00:19:17.680 So the Biden administration, to their credit, said, look, when 373 00:19:17.720 --> 00:19:20.559 this type of thing's happened, it's an automatic violation of 374 00:19:20.599 --> 00:19:23.799 the Federal air Carrier Access Act, which makes perfect sense. 375 00:19:24.240 --> 00:19:26.759 So the airlines were held to a higher standard. Well, 376 00:19:27.079 --> 00:19:29.400 now that we have a different administration, and now that 377 00:19:29.400 --> 00:19:32.000 they've already had a victory in court over the fee 378 00:19:32.039 --> 00:19:38.000 disclosures on reservations, the airlines for the lobbying group for 379 00:19:38.039 --> 00:19:41.440 the airlines or back in court representing five airlines who 380 00:19:41.440 --> 00:19:45.359 are challenging this thing. It's not exactly fair for us 381 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:48.559 to have this kind of thing imposed on us, and 382 00:19:48.599 --> 00:19:51.720 they're looking for it to be thrown out the window. Now, 383 00:19:51.839 --> 00:19:54.440 I suspect, and I really want to be wrong here, 384 00:19:54.680 --> 00:19:57.200 they're going to get their way and it's going to disappear. 385 00:19:58.440 --> 00:20:03.200 Because this is a very friendly airline friendly administration, as 386 00:20:03.240 --> 00:20:06.640 every other administration has been before. Other than for whatever 387 00:20:06.759 --> 00:20:09.440 the reason, the bid administration went after airlines unlike any 388 00:20:09.599 --> 00:20:12.279 that I've ever seen. In the last two years, airlines 389 00:20:12.319 --> 00:20:15.160 have been held accountable in ways that I love because 390 00:20:15.319 --> 00:20:18.920 finally they're being held to standards, not from a safety standpoint, 391 00:20:19.119 --> 00:20:22.519 but from a customer service standpoint, being forced to provide 392 00:20:22.559 --> 00:20:23.240 better service. 393 00:20:23.759 --> 00:20:24.880 So I'll keep an. 394 00:20:24.759 --> 00:20:26.400 Eye on this one and I'll let you know, but 395 00:20:26.720 --> 00:20:30.039 I suspect that surprise, this one will probably be thrown 396 00:20:30.079 --> 00:20:33.000 out the window. Where airlines are no longer required to 397 00:20:33.079 --> 00:20:36.440 have specific requirements when they lose or damage the wheelchair, 398 00:20:36.599 --> 00:20:39.680 many of which that are personally made. You just can't 399 00:20:39.680 --> 00:20:41.880 put somebody in a wheelchair that's in a wheelchair because 400 00:20:41.880 --> 00:20:44.640 sometimes for medical reasons. The wheelchair they have it has 401 00:20:44.680 --> 00:20:48.920