WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:05.839 Here is your tail night first one weather forecast got 2 00:00:05.839 --> 00:00:09.320 sunny skies a day, a possible shower or storm showing 3 00:00:09.359 --> 00:00:10.400 up out there at some point. 4 00:00:10.400 --> 00:00:12.279 Today eighty six will be the high. 5 00:00:12.279 --> 00:00:14.800 Overnight will of seventy with clear skies ninety The high 6 00:00:14.839 --> 00:00:18.160 to Mars also be humid with isolated rain in the afternoon, 7 00:00:18.199 --> 00:00:22.160 a slim possibility overnight clear skies seventy one and muggy. 8 00:00:22.239 --> 00:00:24.640 And on Saturday they say there's a decent chance of rain. 9 00:00:25.160 --> 00:00:27.199 Ninety one will be the high. It's seventy three. Right now, 10 00:00:27.199 --> 00:00:28.320 It's time for traffic. 11 00:00:28.079 --> 00:00:31.280 Update from the U SEE Health Traffic Center. You See 12 00:00:31.280 --> 00:00:35.000 Health has expert traumacare focusing on prevention and treating injuries 13 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:38.399 and supporting long term recovery and rehabilitation. Lee mort you 14 00:00:38.439 --> 00:00:42.240 seehealth dot com. Traffic is still stop and go approaching 15 00:00:42.280 --> 00:00:45.399 an accident on seventy five south end at Fort Washington Way. 16 00:00:45.719 --> 00:00:48.920 The two right lanes are blocked. You're slow seventy five 17 00:00:49.039 --> 00:00:53.079 southbound between Western Avenue and Fort Washington Way, and we 18 00:00:53.159 --> 00:00:56.479 do have delays on I four seventy one northbound Grand 19 00:00:56.560 --> 00:00:59.799 Avenue to I seventy one. I'm Heather Pasco on fifty 20 00:00:59.799 --> 00:01:01.479 five KR see the talk station. 21 00:01:03.079 --> 00:01:05.079 Hey thirty two fifty five car City talk Station. 22 00:01:05.319 --> 00:01:08.319 Love this time of day and week because of it 23 00:01:08.439 --> 00:01:11.359 to have iHeart MEATIA aviation expert Jay Ratlif Jonas for 24 00:01:11.359 --> 00:01:13.840 a few segments to talk about aviation issues and while 25 00:01:13.879 --> 00:01:16.239 there are a ton of things to talk about. As always, 26 00:01:16.280 --> 00:01:18.200 Welcome back, my friend, Jay ratl If. It's good to 27 00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:18.879 have you on the show. 28 00:01:19.640 --> 00:01:20.879 Very pleasant, Good morning, my friend. 29 00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:22.400 Uh the new term I learned. 30 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:24.159 You know, I always look for aviation news before you 31 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:26.000 come on, although you do have enough topics to fill 32 00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:30.560 up all the time this morning, Isle Louse, yep, you 33 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:31.200 know who that is. 34 00:01:32.040 --> 00:01:32.560 You go ahead. 35 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:35.120 It is one of those people who, as soon as 36 00:01:35.120 --> 00:01:38.239 the plane lands and is taxing, jumps up out of 37 00:01:38.239 --> 00:01:40.439 the seat and runs to the front of the plane 38 00:01:40.480 --> 00:01:42.400 so they can be the first off even if they're 39 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:46.120 way behind. Unlike the normal way we all deeboard the plane, 40 00:01:46.159 --> 00:01:48.040 which is the people up front go out first and 41 00:01:48.079 --> 00:01:51.000 we gradually follow suit behind them as our aisle shows up. 42 00:01:51.400 --> 00:01:53.560 Ale Louse, well. 43 00:01:53.400 --> 00:01:56.439 We've talked about we've talked about date life, the people 44 00:01:56.480 --> 00:01:59.400 that try to be bored early. So we'd love giving 45 00:01:59.519 --> 00:02:02.920 people unofficially this didn't come for me kind of term. 46 00:02:02.959 --> 00:02:05.280 And yeah, I've seen people in the rear. 47 00:02:05.079 --> 00:02:08.800 Of the aircraft that literally will knock people over. Yeah. 48 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:10.599 Yeah, they're trying to get thrown of the airplane. Now, 49 00:02:11.080 --> 00:02:14.280 I understand sometimes at the flight's late, and sometimes the 50 00:02:14.319 --> 00:02:16.159 flight attendant say, look, we've got people. Here was a 51 00:02:16.280 --> 00:02:18.919 nine minute connection, let's try to give them a head start. 52 00:02:19.400 --> 00:02:22.879 But I also recognize that we're in position to control 53 00:02:22.960 --> 00:02:25.639 a lot of that. And if I've got a tight 54 00:02:25.639 --> 00:02:28.639 connection in Atlanta or Dallas or Chicago, the last thing 55 00:02:28.680 --> 00:02:30.680 I'm going to do is sit in row thirty one. 56 00:02:30.919 --> 00:02:33.439 It's not going to happen. If I can, I'm. 57 00:02:33.280 --> 00:02:35.879 Going to get an exit row, or we get those 58 00:02:36.199 --> 00:02:39.560 Cherry al fly with the Delta non refundable first class. 59 00:02:39.240 --> 00:02:40.719 Tickets, we'll be up front. 60 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:42.759 Yeah, so I'm going to get as close to that 61 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:45.879 forward door as I can, because there's a ten minute 62 00:02:45.960 --> 00:02:48.199 lag between the time that door opens and the last 63 00:02:48.240 --> 00:02:51.080 person comes off the airplane, sometimes more than that, and 64 00:02:51.159 --> 00:02:53.879 on a tight connection, you need every minute you can get. 65 00:02:54.319 --> 00:02:57.919 But yeah, the more people do that, you know, shooting 66 00:02:58.000 --> 00:02:59.599 up the aisle, the more that people just kind of 67 00:02:59.599 --> 00:03:01.960 stand up and get out of or getting their way, 68 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:05.759 not to be mean, but simply to say, let's just 69 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:09.039 wait your turn, because you've got other people that have 70 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:12.280 tight connections as well. But for some strange reason, Brian, 71 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:15.120 it's all about me and I don't care what other 72 00:03:15.159 --> 00:03:17.639 people think of me, And sadly some people think I'm 73 00:03:17.680 --> 00:03:19.199 never going to see these people again, so if I 74 00:03:19.199 --> 00:03:21.240 act like a horse's ass in front of them, it's 75 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:22.120 no big deal. 76 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:25.879 Right, societal breakdown. Let's see. Well, at the risk of 77 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:27.280 running over a little bit. I don't know how much 78 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:29.240 attention we have to dive on into it, but I 79 00:03:29.240 --> 00:03:31.159 did see the announcement. I think most of my listeners 80 00:03:31.159 --> 00:03:34.319 did that. The TSA has announced that they're not going 81 00:03:34.360 --> 00:03:36.319 to require you to remove your shoes, so you're probably 82 00:03:36.360 --> 00:03:38.479 going to get to your gate a little bit earlier 83 00:03:38.479 --> 00:03:39.639 now without that headache. 84 00:03:40.120 --> 00:03:42.080 Well, your feet are going to be cleaner because you 85 00:03:42.120 --> 00:03:45.280 want it to walk across that dirty floor to put 86 00:03:45.319 --> 00:03:47.520 your shoes back on, which is always especially in the summer, 87 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:50.599 with people wearing sandals, flip flops, different kinds of things 88 00:03:50.639 --> 00:03:54.199 as well, those floors can be fill see it. 89 00:03:54.199 --> 00:03:55.360 I was glad to see it. We've been doing it 90 00:03:55.400 --> 00:03:56.120 for twenty years. 91 00:03:56.240 --> 00:03:59.319 But Brian, remember we did that because the old magnetometers 92 00:03:59.360 --> 00:04:02.280 had a dead spot at the bottom and the very top, 93 00:04:02.960 --> 00:04:05.000 so that if somebody kind of shuffled their feet through 94 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:07.319 and they had something in their shoes, it wouldn't pick 95 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:07.879 it up like. 96 00:04:07.840 --> 00:04:08.840 The shoe bomber guy. 97 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:09.919 That's it. 98 00:04:10.039 --> 00:04:12.039 So the thought was, but you know, our technology has 99 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:14.280 gotten better, and they're saying, look, there's really no reason 100 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:17.240 need to do it, although they can always pull us 101 00:04:17.240 --> 00:04:20.000 out and do random or secondary screening where they may 102 00:04:20.040 --> 00:04:22.120 ask for our shoes to come off, and they'll continue 103 00:04:22.160 --> 00:04:25.319 to do that randomly. But yeah, this is going to 104 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:27.360 speed things up quite a bit. And yeah, I think 105 00:04:27.399 --> 00:04:29.160 it was. It was the right move. 106 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:32.120 Fair enough, We'll bring Jay Ratliff back talk aback some 107 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:34.360 other topics, got some interesting ones on the list this morning. 108 00:04:34.399 --> 00:04:36.199 It's eight thirty five right now, fifty five k se 109 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:40.639 DE talk station. On the forecast, sunny day to day, 110 00:04:40.759 --> 00:04:43.439 maybe some isolated showers of storms later eighty six will 111 00:04:43.480 --> 00:04:45.439 be the high clear over night, seventy tomorrow high on 112 00:04:45.560 --> 00:04:48.439 ninety with a slight chance of isolated rain in the afternoon, 113 00:04:48.639 --> 00:04:51.959 very humid tomorrow, seventy one overnight and also muggy clear 114 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:54.920 skuys and Saturday. A decent chance for rain is what 115 00:04:54.959 --> 00:04:57.399 they're saying, but also saying ninety one will be the 116 00:04:57.480 --> 00:04:58.519 high seventy three. 117 00:04:58.360 --> 00:04:59.279 Now traffic time. 118 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:03.680 From the UC Health Traffic Center. U see Health has 119 00:05:03.879 --> 00:05:07.600 expert traumacare focusing on prevention and treating injuries and supporting 120 00:05:07.639 --> 00:05:10.959 long term recovery and rehabilitation. Learn more at you seehealth 121 00:05:11.000 --> 00:05:13.839 at dot com. We have a new accident on your 122 00:05:13.839 --> 00:05:17.000 two seventy five East ramp to seventy five South. The 123 00:05:17.079 --> 00:05:20.120 left lane is blocked. You're still stopping go because of 124 00:05:20.160 --> 00:05:23.040 an accident seventy five South out at Fort Washington Way. 125 00:05:23.480 --> 00:05:27.040 The two right lanes are blocked. I'm Heather Pasco on 126 00:05:27.160 --> 00:05:29.399 fifty five KRC the talk station. 127 00:05:30.319 --> 00:05:31.759 Have you ever been in the cockpit before? 128 00:05:31.759 --> 00:05:35.360 And Jay has Jay ray Leff, I heard me the 129 00:05:35.399 --> 00:05:37.800 aviation expert diving through the topics. I had a special 130 00:05:37.839 --> 00:05:41.519 request Jay the current status and I don't think they've 131 00:05:41.519 --> 00:05:43.759 released the report TODAYVID. Have you heard any updates on 132 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:46.040 Air India Flight one seventy one. They just sort of 133 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:48.560 took off and then just crashed right away. 134 00:05:49.439 --> 00:05:51.680 We've not and normally we have a briefing by now, 135 00:05:51.879 --> 00:05:55.199 but it's a little bit tardy. Apparently the report is 136 00:05:55.480 --> 00:05:59.480 out there and we should be updated anytime. So still 137 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:02.399 kind of wait to see what that preliminary report is 138 00:06:02.439 --> 00:06:05.199 going to indicate, and of course some of that will 139 00:06:05.240 --> 00:06:07.759 reflect some of the initial data gleaned off the two 140 00:06:07.759 --> 00:06:10.680 black boxes, yeah, voice recorder and the flight data recorder, 141 00:06:10.720 --> 00:06:13.839 and that's going to be very very interesting to see 142 00:06:13.879 --> 00:06:17.040 what we find out from there and kind of get 143 00:06:17.079 --> 00:06:20.600 an idea of the direction that the investigation could be taking. 144 00:06:20.759 --> 00:06:25.199 So yeah, nothing yet, but very anxious and I'm hoping 145 00:06:25.240 --> 00:06:28.040 obviously long before we talk again, we'll have some of 146 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:29.839 those details if you need me before Thursday. 147 00:06:29.879 --> 00:06:32.720 Always asks, oh, that's wonderful, very kind of you to offer, 148 00:06:32.720 --> 00:06:35.240 and that may very well happen. All right, moving forward, 149 00:06:35.240 --> 00:06:37.879 and these things do take time. I appreciate that they're 150 00:06:37.920 --> 00:06:42.920 not hasty to release any conclusions before they have something 151 00:06:42.920 --> 00:06:44.360 to hang their hat on, or at least to reach 152 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:45.519 a reasonable conclusion. 153 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:47.120 So over to British airways. 154 00:06:47.839 --> 00:06:49.639 One of the reasons I hate air travel is the 155 00:06:49.720 --> 00:06:52.279 idea that I'm sitting on a plane on the tarmac 156 00:06:52.600 --> 00:06:55.279 and it's not moving. It drives me crazy. Jay It's like, 157 00:06:55.319 --> 00:06:58.920 I'm stuck. Why aren't we going somewhere? There's no way 158 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:01.519 I could maintain my composure without a healthy dose of 159 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:06.000 some kind of pharmaceutical in a seven hour delay under 160 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:08.759 that circumstance. What's the story on this British Airway thing? 161 00:07:09.759 --> 00:07:11.000 First of all, do you still do you have that 162 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:13.000 same feeling when you're on the interstate going nowhere in 163 00:07:13.279 --> 00:07:14.199 the high speed lane? 164 00:07:14.199 --> 00:07:17.120 You're just yeah, but that usually only kicks in if 165 00:07:17.120 --> 00:07:20.480 I really have to use the restroom. 166 00:07:20.839 --> 00:07:22.680 Well, you know, the good news is you could have 167 00:07:22.759 --> 00:07:25.240 used the restroom on this British Airways flight. They were 168 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:30.120 going from London over to or the UK over to Poland. 169 00:07:30.399 --> 00:07:31.360 And what happened. 170 00:07:31.399 --> 00:07:33.519 They boarded everybody, they're getting ready to leave, and they 171 00:07:33.560 --> 00:07:37.519 had a fuse in the flight deck that controlled the 172 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:38.639 air conditioning. 173 00:07:38.839 --> 00:07:41.680 They kicked out. Uh oh, they had to call them mechanics. 174 00:07:41.800 --> 00:07:43.079 That's okay, it's an easy fix. 175 00:07:43.600 --> 00:07:46.959 And they wanted to replace the fuse so they could 176 00:07:46.959 --> 00:07:49.879 get the air conditioning system back up and running. So 177 00:07:49.920 --> 00:07:53.519 they waited a bit, got up there, replaced the fuse. 178 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:57.720 It tripped again. So they're thinking, okay, now you've got 179 00:07:57.920 --> 00:08:01.079 a full plane of passengers. Yeah, it could take forty 180 00:08:01.079 --> 00:08:04.800 five minutes to an hour to board. So the obvious 181 00:08:04.839 --> 00:08:09.079 thought is based on previous issues with this exact same component. 182 00:08:09.279 --> 00:08:11.800 It's a pretty easy fix, so you would never get 183 00:08:11.839 --> 00:08:14.800 everybody off the plane, fix it and then wait an 184 00:08:14.839 --> 00:08:16.759 hour to get everybody back on the plane before we 185 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:19.879 could take off. The best approach is to go ahead 186 00:08:19.879 --> 00:08:22.920 and keep everybody on board so that you can get 187 00:08:22.920 --> 00:08:23.560 this fixed and. 188 00:08:23.519 --> 00:08:25.199 Immediately you can roll and take off. 189 00:08:25.240 --> 00:08:27.519 But the problem is you have to have a point 190 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:31.240 at which you say enough is enough. So they kept 191 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:33.720 trying and trying and trying to fix this issue, and 192 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:36.240 you're right, they were on the plane for seven hours. 193 00:08:36.519 --> 00:08:38.720 They finally had to call in the fire department who 194 00:08:38.759 --> 00:08:41.360 came on board to treat some of the people that 195 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:44.960 were passing out, and they said, look, the fumes in 196 00:08:45.320 --> 00:08:49.120 the cabin are toxic. Get everybody off this airplane now. 197 00:08:49.600 --> 00:08:53.919 So the seven hour nightmare didn't end because British Airways 198 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:55.080 finally made the call. 199 00:08:55.399 --> 00:08:56.279 It's because the. 200 00:08:56.279 --> 00:08:59.279 Fire department got on board and said get everybody off 201 00:08:59.279 --> 00:09:04.399 of this airplane now. I mean seven hours of going nowhere. 202 00:09:04.840 --> 00:09:09.080 No, okay, So they're on a plane with no air conditioning. Yep, 203 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:10.679 this whole time, and. 204 00:09:10.759 --> 00:09:13.279 I don't know they had no air conditioning or it 205 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:17.679 was subdued air conditioning okay, not working at full capacity. 206 00:09:17.759 --> 00:09:20.080 I don't know, but in the middle of the summer, 207 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:21.120 let's hope they had something. 208 00:09:21.519 --> 00:09:24.200 Yeah, I would like to think, adding you know, further 209 00:09:24.200 --> 00:09:26.600 to a night already nightmare situation, being stuck in an 210 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:28.960 air airplane on the tarmac for that long. But you 211 00:09:29.000 --> 00:09:31.320 said the air quality was in there was dangerous to 212 00:09:31.360 --> 00:09:34.159 the fire department. Is that the amount of carbon dioxide that. 213 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:36.480 I mean was it? Was it along those lines or 214 00:09:36.519 --> 00:09:37.919 was there some kind of fumes in there? 215 00:09:38.519 --> 00:09:41.200 It was fumes that the air end of the cabin 216 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:44.120 is a bleed off that comes out off the engines. 217 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:47.080 It's it's part of the components of the aircraft. Where 218 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:52.399 as you're flying, the fresh air is driven into the 219 00:09:52.440 --> 00:09:55.960 cabin through the engines. So that's how they keep things cool, 220 00:09:56.080 --> 00:10:00.679 recycled air. It's really it's really a super fascinating process 221 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:03.360 as it's working. The problem is if you're not flying 222 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:06.720 and you're sitting and you're idling, things change. And what 223 00:10:06.759 --> 00:10:08.399 was happening You were starting to have a build up 224 00:10:08.440 --> 00:10:09.919 of some of these fumes that were coming from the 225 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:13.679 Canada now, and that's what was being raised ever so 226 00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:16.559 slightly at a time that for the for the fire 227 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:19.360 department who walk into it, boom, it hits them in 228 00:10:19.360 --> 00:10:22.440 the face, versus somebody that's sitting there may be accustomed to. 229 00:10:22.360 --> 00:10:23.080 What was going on. 230 00:10:23.360 --> 00:10:26.080 But you know, that's why here in the United States 231 00:10:26.360 --> 00:10:30.159 there are significant fines from the Department of Transportation if 232 00:10:30.519 --> 00:10:34.360 a US carrier or another carrier brings passengers into the 233 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:37.559 US and they are trapped on an airplane for up 234 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:40.759 to three hours, because after that point in time, what's 235 00:10:40.799 --> 00:10:43.320 going to happen is they're going to be fined significantly 236 00:10:43.399 --> 00:10:45.960 for every passenger that's on board that aircraft. Now some 237 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:48.440 of that was born, of course, out of the nightmare 238 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:50.840 we had at Northwest Airlines back in the late nineties 239 00:10:50.879 --> 00:10:53.559 when there was a thunderstorm that should have closed the 240 00:10:53.559 --> 00:10:54.440 Detroit airport. 241 00:10:54.559 --> 00:10:55.039 They did not. 242 00:10:56.080 --> 00:10:58.679 That's not Northwest, that's the airport, and yet all these 243 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:01.399 planes land and then all of a sudden, this blizzard 244 00:11:01.399 --> 00:11:04.200 thing comes through and you got airplanes stuck everywhere, and 245 00:11:04.240 --> 00:11:07.440 you had airplanes out there for nine ten eleven hours 246 00:11:08.679 --> 00:11:11.679 on the airplane trying to make it back to the terminal, 247 00:11:11.879 --> 00:11:14.879 simply too dangerous to taxi. And you know, they just 248 00:11:14.960 --> 00:11:17.399 kind of got snowed in everywhere. And that's when a 249 00:11:17.399 --> 00:11:19.159 little bit later they said, look, we've got to do 250 00:11:19.240 --> 00:11:21.559 something about this, and they did, and they've got some 251 00:11:21.600 --> 00:11:22.519 good rules in place. 252 00:11:23.440 --> 00:11:25.919 I guess good things can come from tragic events. Let's pause, 253 00:11:25.960 --> 00:11:28.879 bring Jay back about a lightning strike and a fire 254 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:31.840 suppression system plus a battery fire. We've talked about the 255 00:11:31.840 --> 00:11:34.200 potential for that. Well one happened. Then we'll get a 256 00:11:34.240 --> 00:11:36.799 final close with hub Delays. One more with Jay ratlif 257 00:11:36.799 --> 00:11:38.600 It's eight forty five right now, fifty five K see 258 00:11:38.759 --> 00:11:42.879 talk station this story one more time with the Chenne 259 00:11:42.919 --> 00:11:46.039 nine weather forecast. Sunny skies today, a few isolated showers 260 00:11:46.039 --> 00:11:49.039 and storms are possible. We'll reach eighty six for the high, 261 00:11:49.080 --> 00:11:51.879 down to seventy overnight with clear skies ninety to hide. Tomorrow. 262 00:11:51.919 --> 00:11:54.360 They'll be humid and I'll have a slight chance of 263 00:11:54.399 --> 00:11:55.679 isolator rain in the afternoon. 264 00:11:55.679 --> 00:11:57.519 It'll be clear every night. It'd be muggy as well. 265 00:11:57.600 --> 00:12:00.200 Seventy one for the woe and Saturday going on, boy 266 00:12:00.200 --> 00:12:02.919 at the ninety one and a decent chance of reign 267 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:05.840 their predicting closing out at seventy four time for final 268 00:12:05.879 --> 00:12:06.639 traffic chuck. 269 00:12:06.759 --> 00:12:09.240 Thatwas from the u SEE Health Traffic Center. You See 270 00:12:09.240 --> 00:12:12.919 Health has expert traumacare focusing on prevention, treating injuries, and 271 00:12:12.919 --> 00:12:16.399 supporting long term recovery and rehabilitation. Learn more at u 272 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:19.480 sehealth dot com. It is stop and go because of 273 00:12:19.480 --> 00:12:22.720 a crash on I seventy five southbound at Fort Washington Way. 274 00:12:22.799 --> 00:12:25.679 The two right lanes are blocked. There's an accident on 275 00:12:25.720 --> 00:12:28.879 your two seventy five east ramp to seventy five south 276 00:12:29.360 --> 00:12:32.360 there the left lane is blocked and we do have 277 00:12:32.440 --> 00:12:35.200 stop and go traffic. Seventy five South found hoppled Fort 278 00:12:35.360 --> 00:12:38.720 Washington Way. I'm Heather Pasco on fifty five KR see 279 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:39.440 the talk station. 280 00:12:40.960 --> 00:12:43.919 Hey, forty nine fifty five KRCD talk station finishing up 281 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:46.200 with Jay Rattler. If I heard me the aviation expert. 282 00:12:47.120 --> 00:12:49.759 You hear them on pretty much all the iHeart stations. 283 00:12:49.759 --> 00:12:53.000 He's busy all week to an aviation reports and God 284 00:12:53.039 --> 00:12:54.919 bless him for spending this extra time with us on 285 00:12:55.279 --> 00:12:58.399 the fifty five krc Morning Show. Got a lightning strike issue, 286 00:12:58.440 --> 00:13:01.639 little fire suppression foam off at Spirit Airlines hangar. What's 287 00:13:01.639 --> 00:13:02.559 this one all about. 288 00:13:02.399 --> 00:13:05.399 Jay Spearit can't buy a break. I'm telling you if 289 00:13:05.399 --> 00:13:08.960 their life depended on it. They've got a rather large 290 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:12.159 and impressive maintenance facility of Detroit. They spent it was 291 00:13:12.159 --> 00:13:15.679 thirty two million dollars. They built around twenty seventeen as 292 00:13:15.720 --> 00:13:18.559 one hundred and twenty six thousand square feet. It's where 293 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:21.639 they work on their aircraft and things. But it contains 294 00:13:21.639 --> 00:13:24.360 a very aggressive fire suppression system. Well, we had a 295 00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:28.600 lightning storm this week that triggered that fire suppression system. 296 00:13:28.919 --> 00:13:31.240 There wasn't a fire, but it thought there was and 297 00:13:31.240 --> 00:13:34.960 that's when the foam was let go and Brian, it 298 00:13:35.080 --> 00:13:39.360 went everywhere, Oh no, partially partially burying. Five planes had 299 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:42.080 to be taken out of service for inspection. Actually started 300 00:13:42.080 --> 00:13:45.960 to ooze out onto the tarmac. It looked like snow 301 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:49.360 as it kind of oozed out of the hangar. It 302 00:13:49.399 --> 00:13:52.080 was everywhere, and some of this is a bit corrosive. 303 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:54.679 So it's not the kind of thing you just, you know, 304 00:13:54.799 --> 00:13:56.919 chive the kids in and say go play. So what 305 00:13:57.080 --> 00:14:00.399 happens is you've got this massive cleanup and then you 306 00:14:00.440 --> 00:14:02.200 have to inspect the airplanes that were there. I think 307 00:14:02.200 --> 00:14:04.240 they took three or four of them out of service 308 00:14:04.399 --> 00:14:08.519 just to make sure that nothing ADYONICX wise was compromised 309 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:10.759 with that particular situation. 310 00:14:10.919 --> 00:14:12.399 But you know, I'm sure. 311 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:14.799 They test that fire suppression system every so often. I 312 00:14:14.840 --> 00:14:17.799 don't think quite to this extent, but if you get 313 00:14:17.840 --> 00:14:20.639 the chance, you can google the image on Spirit Airlines 314 00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:22.799 and the hangar and you'll see exactly what we're talking about. 315 00:14:23.120 --> 00:14:25.480 It was everywhere, oh. 316 00:14:25.279 --> 00:14:27.960 And talking about a costly cleanup in addition to the 317 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:30.279 delays and everything that went along with that. Jeez, Luiz, 318 00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:32.159 I can only imagine, you know. 319 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:34.799 Hopefully they can, yes, Spiarson trying to turn things around, 320 00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:36.799 and I don't think that picture is going to make 321 00:14:36.840 --> 00:14:38.840 it to their company calendar for next year. 322 00:14:38.840 --> 00:14:41.279 But they've got insurance for stuff. 323 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:44.240 I just got to say that you're right that definitely. 324 00:14:43.919 --> 00:14:46.480 As long as nobody got hurt, you know, we we 325 00:14:46.519 --> 00:14:48.440 can look at it and kind of gawk. 326 00:14:48.679 --> 00:14:51.279 Yeah, except for their self insured retention, which I'm sure 327 00:14:51.320 --> 00:14:53.480 is rather substantial when you're talking about a big company 328 00:14:53.559 --> 00:14:56.240 like that. All right, moving over to a battery fire. 329 00:14:56.279 --> 00:14:58.639 You and I have talked about this before. The what 330 00:14:58.759 --> 00:15:01.200 lithium ion battery in the case, was it or some 331 00:15:01.279 --> 00:15:03.039 other battery that was it? 332 00:15:03.200 --> 00:15:05.039 Blah blah blah blah blah. Here we go again. 333 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:09.159 We had a Federal aviation a Federal Aviation Administration, excuse me, 334 00:15:09.519 --> 00:15:12.080 they're investigating a battery fire. It was a Delta Airlines 335 00:15:12.399 --> 00:15:14.320 seven to fifty seven. It was flying from Atlanta to 336 00:15:14.360 --> 00:15:17.720 Fort Lauderdale. During the course of the flight, one of 337 00:15:17.759 --> 00:15:20.480 the batteries started to overheat. So what we had to 338 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:23.360 have to do is the flight attendants go from flight attendants. 339 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:23.759 To fire fighters. 340 00:15:23.960 --> 00:15:27.000 They have the fire expression bags, the procedures, they're able 341 00:15:27.240 --> 00:15:30.200 to quickly contain it. But as the cabin was being 342 00:15:30.240 --> 00:15:33.759 filled with smoke, so you've got the flight crew that 343 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:37.960 in the meantime is declaring an emergency landing in Fort Myers. 344 00:15:38.360 --> 00:15:41.879 And this is again just another of the brazilion examples 345 00:15:41.879 --> 00:15:45.200 we've had around the world of these things overheating representing 346 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:48.960 a very real safety hazard to commercial aviation, and that's 347 00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:51.679 one of the reasons that the Federal Aviation Administration has 348 00:15:51.759 --> 00:15:53.879 banned the Samsun Galaxy seven. 349 00:15:53.919 --> 00:15:57.080 I think we talked about the phone, yes, Sir, and. 350 00:15:57.120 --> 00:16:00.200 Brian I suspect there's going to be more. There's no 351 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:03.799 way that we can continue to allow these types of 352 00:16:03.919 --> 00:16:07.360 real risks on board airplanes where it takes us fifteen 353 00:16:07.440 --> 00:16:09.639 or twenty minutes to land that airplane in an emergency 354 00:16:10.080 --> 00:16:12.320 because there's no way to put a fire out. That's 355 00:16:12.320 --> 00:16:14.600 one of the reasons if one of these devices gets 356 00:16:14.600 --> 00:16:17.759 stuck in a seat, you see panic on the flight right, 357 00:16:18.159 --> 00:16:20.279 because they know if it starts to catch on fire, 358 00:16:20.639 --> 00:16:24.799 they don't have a protocol. They can't extinguish something that big. 359 00:16:25.279 --> 00:16:28.519 That's why the aircraft will immediately declare an emergency and 360 00:16:28.720 --> 00:16:31.600 they'll get that airplane on the ground fast because they're 361 00:16:31.600 --> 00:16:34.519 worried about it starting to smolder, catching on fire, and 362 00:16:34.559 --> 00:16:38.519 their inability to contain it and then providing a huge 363 00:16:38.600 --> 00:16:41.960 safety issue on board that airplane. So do we wait 364 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:44.519 for an accident before we take a bigger step or 365 00:16:44.559 --> 00:16:46.600 are we going to do something now? It's going to 366 00:16:46.679 --> 00:16:48.480 be up to the FA to see what they want 367 00:16:48.519 --> 00:16:48.720 to do. 368 00:16:48.799 --> 00:16:52.240 But well, goodness, yeah, a logical and reasonable solution. And 369 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:54.039 you and I have talked a little bit about this before, 370 00:16:54.080 --> 00:16:56.759 but it seems that okay, there is such a thing 371 00:16:56.759 --> 00:16:58.720 as a fire suppression bag, and I know, they make 372 00:16:58.759 --> 00:17:01.799 these small path you know, like already cage pouches that 373 00:17:01.840 --> 00:17:03.879 people put their cell phones in to prevent you know, 374 00:17:03.919 --> 00:17:06.200 anybody from tracking them or whatever. If you can have 375 00:17:06.240 --> 00:17:09.720 a fire suppression bag and have the passengers obligated to 376 00:17:09.839 --> 00:17:12.400 keep their phones in that bag or have that right 377 00:17:12.440 --> 00:17:14.000 there with them to the extent they have to get 378 00:17:14.039 --> 00:17:16.119 it out and use it for any particular reason, it 379 00:17:16.160 --> 00:17:19.599 would negate to a large extent the larger problems like 380 00:17:19.720 --> 00:17:23.079 fumes filling up the cabin and maybe a bigger fire happening. 381 00:17:23.559 --> 00:17:25.559 It just would cost money. 382 00:17:25.680 --> 00:17:25.880 Yep. 383 00:17:26.039 --> 00:17:28.960 Well, you also are going to recognize there's no way 384 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:31.480 on God's green earth that you're going to pry those 385 00:17:31.480 --> 00:17:34.720 cell phones out of people's hands. They're going to have 386 00:17:34.799 --> 00:17:37.880 them the entire time, and they're going to not keep 387 00:17:37.920 --> 00:17:39.440 them in any sort of a bag, and they're not 388 00:17:39.440 --> 00:17:40.640 going to follow the instructions. 389 00:17:40.759 --> 00:17:40.960 You know. 390 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:44.400 That is that's how people are. It's like take my kids, 391 00:17:44.400 --> 00:17:46.359 but you know, let me keep my phone. That's how 392 00:17:46.480 --> 00:17:49.359 precious these things are an individual. So yeah, the idea 393 00:17:49.400 --> 00:17:53.279 of trying to eliminate them from every flight, it's not 394 00:17:53.440 --> 00:17:56.440 something we can do practically because that's just not going 395 00:17:56.519 --> 00:17:59.240 to happen, but we've got to do something because you 396 00:17:59.279 --> 00:18:02.599 can look at an aircraft. There's pictures I forget the 397 00:18:02.640 --> 00:18:05.359 International carrier that had one of these battery fires that 398 00:18:05.400 --> 00:18:07.839 got out of control. They were at the gate Brian. 399 00:18:07.880 --> 00:18:10.119 It burned off the entire top of the aircraft news. 400 00:18:11.640 --> 00:18:14.480 There's a video that's some kids going through an airport 401 00:18:14.559 --> 00:18:17.079