WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.279 --> 00:00:05.120 Jennie first one to weather forecast, finally delivering some good news. 2 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:07.559 Although today we do get mid day storms, they said 3 00:00:07.599 --> 00:00:10.759 they are very likely the humidity will gradually drop throughout 4 00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:13.400 the day and will be humidity free by tomorrow. Today's 5 00:00:13.439 --> 00:00:16.359 hi just eighty three sixty five overnight clear skies is sunny, 6 00:00:16.440 --> 00:00:18.719 humid free day tomorrow with a high of eighty going 7 00:00:18.719 --> 00:00:20.559 to be clear over night sixty one and eighty for 8 00:00:20.600 --> 00:00:22.960 the high on Saturday as well, with partly sunny skies 9 00:00:23.679 --> 00:00:25.359 sixty five degree or seventy five degrees. 10 00:00:25.440 --> 00:00:28.039 Right now, let's get an update on traffic Chuck from the. 11 00:00:28.079 --> 00:00:31.039 UCUT Traffics Center. You see health Weight Bouth Center offers 12 00:00:31.079 --> 00:00:34.880 sergical and medical obesity care and expertise. Call five one 13 00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:37.560 three nine three nine two two sixty three. That's nine 14 00:00:37.640 --> 00:00:41.079 three nine twenty two sixty three septh pound seventy five 15 00:00:41.119 --> 00:00:44.280 briery lights continue through the block mun split for an 16 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:48.159 extra five northbound seventy five improving a bit, slows just 17 00:00:48.240 --> 00:00:50.840 north of two seventy five into town to lay times 18 00:00:50.920 --> 00:00:53.920 under the ten minute mark. Ten bend seventy four slows 19 00:00:53.960 --> 00:00:57.399 approaching seventy five Chuck ingram on fifty five kre see 20 00:00:57.399 --> 00:00:58.079 the talk. 21 00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:02.759 Station Hey twenty nine on a Thursday slash Friday eve. 22 00:01:02.799 --> 00:01:04.480 It is that time of week. I always look forward 23 00:01:04.519 --> 00:01:07.680 to get an update on things aviation and sometimes more 24 00:01:07.959 --> 00:01:10.719 with I heard meet the aviation expert Jay Ratliffe, Jay, 25 00:01:10.840 --> 00:01:12.959 my friend, welcome back to the morning show. Always a 26 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:13.840 pleasure having you on. 27 00:01:14.879 --> 00:01:18.519 Hard to believe that July is almost past us. You know, 28 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:21.040 I'm not ready to let go any of this summer. 29 00:01:21.079 --> 00:01:24.680 And we turned the page and we're talking August. 30 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:29.400 I know I've had like four conversations over the past 31 00:01:29.400 --> 00:01:31.640 twenty four hours on that exact topic, like how in 32 00:01:31.680 --> 00:01:32.959 the hell is July over? 33 00:01:33.159 --> 00:01:34.400 This is just lah? 34 00:01:35.239 --> 00:01:37.799 Oh well, like forth coming up sometime soon, I. 35 00:01:37.719 --> 00:01:44.120 Know, coming gone anyway, It's out of the list. But 36 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:45.680 I know you can handle this one. I throw your 37 00:01:45.719 --> 00:01:47.120 curball every once in a while, which you have no 38 00:01:47.159 --> 00:01:50.400 problem with. I was reading it was reading on the 39 00:01:50.480 --> 00:01:53.760 update of the collision between the air the airliner and 40 00:01:53.799 --> 00:01:56.480 the army helicopter that happened. I guess that was what 41 00:01:56.799 --> 00:02:01.519 January which was it seems like yesterday. I know that 42 00:02:01.519 --> 00:02:03.439 they try to put some measure of blame on the 43 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:06.120 air traffic controllers. But it's been revealed that apparently the 44 00:02:06.200 --> 00:02:09.719 altimeters really aren't up stuff in the black Hawk helicopters, 45 00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:12.879 and they might have not even known what altitude that 46 00:02:12.919 --> 00:02:15.560 they were flying. I saw an article, I guess on 47 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:20.400 Fox saying the Army acknowledge that Blackhawk helicopter altimeters maybe 48 00:02:20.439 --> 00:02:23.560 more than one hundred feet off, before adding that their 49 00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:27.199 pilots aim to maintain altitude with one hundred feet of 50 00:02:27.199 --> 00:02:30.240 e limit. I guess aiming to and accomplishing it two 51 00:02:30.280 --> 00:02:33.599 completely different things. But altimeter issues, But the other thing 52 00:02:33.599 --> 00:02:35.479 that almost was more troubling. I know you've got a 53 00:02:35.560 --> 00:02:38.439 lot of strong words for the Federal Aviation Administration pro 54 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:42.639 and con, but the FAA didn't make any route changes 55 00:02:42.759 --> 00:02:46.759 or provide polets with any warnings despite eighty five near 56 00:02:46.879 --> 00:02:50.120 misses in the past three years. These are military flights, 57 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:53.120 and I think I asked you when this first came out, Jay, 58 00:02:53.719 --> 00:02:55.520 why in the hell do they have to fly so 59 00:02:55.680 --> 00:02:58.960 close to an airport that's got jets flying coming in 60 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:00.039 and out of it. 61 00:03:00.199 --> 00:03:02.159 Well, you have a lot of people being shuttled to 62 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:06.400 and from the inner workings of Washington. You have a 63 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:09.879 lot of military political people that are being being shuffled 64 00:03:09.919 --> 00:03:11.800 back and forth kind of an air taxi. 65 00:03:11.560 --> 00:03:12.719 Is the best way to look at it. 66 00:03:12.840 --> 00:03:14.960 And then you've got NonStop training, you've got a bunch 67 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:18.199 of other things that are taking place, and yeah, it 68 00:03:18.319 --> 00:03:20.639 just happens to take place right next to a large 69 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:21.560 commercial airport. 70 00:03:22.080 --> 00:03:24.840 And we've had issues and this has. 71 00:03:24.759 --> 00:03:26.599 Been on the radar for the FAA for a number 72 00:03:26.599 --> 00:03:31.080 of years about how this has become in their words, 73 00:03:32.080 --> 00:03:34.400 in my estimation, they looked at it as more of 74 00:03:34.439 --> 00:03:37.639 an annoyance than something that was directly related to a 75 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:41.599 safety issue, because again, the air traffic control team in 76 00:03:41.639 --> 00:03:45.800 the military have worked well together to make sure that these, 77 00:03:46.159 --> 00:03:49.319 you know, near accidents didn't become accidents. And it took 78 00:03:49.360 --> 00:03:51.319 something like this for everybody to kind of wake up 79 00:03:51.319 --> 00:03:53.680 and say, wait a minute, we've been flirting with this 80 00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:56.960 disaster scenario for such a long period of time. It 81 00:03:57.120 --> 00:03:59.800 was just something that was pretty much waiting to have. 82 00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:03.039 But when it first took place, the first thing that 83 00:04:03.120 --> 00:04:06.120 hit all of us was the fact that the aircraft 84 00:04:06.159 --> 00:04:09.039 that was descending was at an altitude that should have 85 00:04:09.080 --> 00:04:11.639 been well above where that helicopter was allowed to be. 86 00:04:12.199 --> 00:04:15.639 And knowing that it was higher than that suggests that okay, 87 00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:21.319 either the crew made a mistake and ignored some of 88 00:04:21.399 --> 00:04:25.319 the or misinterpreted the air traffic control communication, or there 89 00:04:25.319 --> 00:04:29.639 could have been something mechanical going on with their aircraft. 90 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:34.759 And when we hear the altimeters are not completely reliable 91 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:36.920 as we would like to and I'm thinking, how in 92 00:04:37.000 --> 00:04:40.480 the heck is that possible to the military aircraft where 93 00:04:40.519 --> 00:04:42.480 you would want everything to be you took for the 94 00:04:42.519 --> 00:04:45.199 crew standpoint absolutely perfect. 95 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:49.560 It makes you think, why what? And you know, that's 96 00:04:49.560 --> 00:04:50.319 the first time. 97 00:04:50.120 --> 00:04:52.680 That I had heard of the fact that the equipment 98 00:04:52.680 --> 00:04:55.279 on board that type of a helicopter is less than 99 00:04:55.319 --> 00:04:58.079 one hundred percent reliable, and that means that some of 100 00:04:58.079 --> 00:04:59.879 this stuff is subjective. 101 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:02.079 Left up to the crew to do your best. 102 00:05:02.399 --> 00:05:06.319 And to me, that is just that's not aviation, that's 103 00:05:06.399 --> 00:05:09.199 the old days of crop dusting. We're talking about the 104 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:11.959 state of the art technology that these men and women 105 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:14.759 should be able to have and the fact that they didn't. 106 00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:17.120 Now whether or not that did or did not contribute 107 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:19.959 to the to the crash, we don't know, but it's 108 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:23.279 obvious that most flight crews would not have been that far. 109 00:05:23.160 --> 00:05:23.920 Out of position. 110 00:05:24.600 --> 00:05:26.560 The regional jet was where it was supposed to be. 111 00:05:26.639 --> 00:05:29.560 The helicopter was not, and sadly that's what led to 112 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:30.879 the to the disaster. 113 00:05:32.040 --> 00:05:35.639 Well, honestly, I really don't care about the time commitments 114 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:38.000 of the people being shuttled back and forth just to 115 00:05:38.040 --> 00:05:41.199 have the flight to go in front of a runway. 116 00:05:41.800 --> 00:05:44.279 It sounds I feel more important if they shuttle me 117 00:05:44.439 --> 00:05:44.759 like that. 118 00:05:44.839 --> 00:05:48.839 I feel you know, yeah, yeah, I'm thousand percent behind 119 00:05:48.879 --> 00:05:49.639 his usual brother. 120 00:05:50.279 --> 00:05:53.879 All right, rather than go over, let's go take an 121 00:05:53.959 --> 00:05:56.600 earlier break, and then we're going to address the pack 122 00:05:56.800 --> 00:06:00.480 of passenger of evacuation from an aircraft for the tires, 123 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:04.439 a change which can dovetail into the congress or congress 124 00:06:04.439 --> 00:06:08.480 manales calling for revised safety evacuation assessment that a whole 125 00:06:08.480 --> 00:06:10.759 lot more. With Jay rattlife would be right back, don't go. 126 00:06:10.680 --> 00:06:14.160 Away fifty five KRC the paths. 127 00:06:15.160 --> 00:06:18.879 I heard me theaight ah expert Jay Ratlett, every Thursday 128 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:23.160 at this time, moving over Dovetailer with another issue you 129 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:27.079 brought up, Congressman apparently calling for revised safety evacuation assessment, 130 00:06:27.160 --> 00:06:31.120 citing previous studies which apparently were flawed. You can explain that, 131 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:33.600 but we also have a passenger evacuation. I saw the 132 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:36.560 video from this one. Be careful when you're sliding down 133 00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:40.240 the slide. But the tires had caught fire. Can you 134 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:42.319 marry these two subjects? Are they completely different? 135 00:06:42.399 --> 00:06:42.600 Jay? 136 00:06:44.040 --> 00:06:47.800 Well, they dubtail, they do. I think it's not a stretch. 137 00:06:47.800 --> 00:06:50.279 But we had the American Airlines flight that was in 138 00:06:50.319 --> 00:06:52.800 the process of taking off. Of course, we have the 139 00:06:53.240 --> 00:06:58.959 incredible hot summer temperatures, those tire overheated blue caught on fire. 140 00:06:59.120 --> 00:07:02.839 The takeoff is is canceled and the smoke from the 141 00:07:02.920 --> 00:07:06.040 fire on of the tire starts to seep into the 142 00:07:06.519 --> 00:07:10.240 cabin area, and the captain calls for an immediate evacuation. 143 00:07:10.879 --> 00:07:14.240 So they have the evacuation process where the flight attendants 144 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:17.279 are screaming, leave your hand, carry bags behind, get off 145 00:07:17.279 --> 00:07:20.079 the airplane. Now, remember ninety seconds is what we should 146 00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:23.680 be looking at, getting everybody off that aircraft. Well, everybody's 147 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:25.959 going down the chute. And then, of course afterwards you 148 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:29.199 see the video of people strolling across the tarmac with 149 00:07:29.240 --> 00:07:33.160 what bags are wheels behind us? Now wait a minute, 150 00:07:33.319 --> 00:07:36.240 that would suggest that these idiots stopped and collected their 151 00:07:36.360 --> 00:07:41.319 large overhead compartment luggage and slowed the evacuation process. Now, Brian, 152 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:45.040 if it were me the FAA, I would say, I'm 153 00:07:45.079 --> 00:07:47.560 finding every one of these people one hundred thousand dollars fifty. 154 00:07:47.920 --> 00:07:50.839 I would find them to the point that it smacked 155 00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:52.480 them up side the head with one of these things. 156 00:07:52.480 --> 00:07:55.920 Because it was back in twenty sixteen, American Airlines had 157 00:07:55.920 --> 00:07:59.399 a aircraft in Chicago on fire. It took four and 158 00:07:59.439 --> 00:08:02.319 a half minute or so to get everybody off the airplane. 159 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:06.120 No nobody was injured or nobody died, there were some 160 00:08:06.199 --> 00:08:11.199 minor injuries. The National Transportation Safetyboard, in their usual incredible 161 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:13.839 all star effort a year later, came out with their 162 00:08:13.879 --> 00:08:16.560 final report. One of the things they cited, this is 163 00:08:16.600 --> 00:08:21.959 in twenty seventeen, was that passengers need to be held 164 00:08:21.959 --> 00:08:25.399 accountable if they slowed the evacuation process, because that's what 165 00:08:25.519 --> 00:08:28.879 delayed that flight and everybody getting off not ninety seconds 166 00:08:28.920 --> 00:08:31.959 but four and a half minutes. So the thought back then, 167 00:08:32.039 --> 00:08:37.440 the recommendation seven years ago, was let's do something about this. 168 00:08:37.960 --> 00:08:41.879 We've not twenty nineteen, Aeroflot aircraft gets hit by lightning, 169 00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:44.840 they land, the aircraft's on fire, the whole back of 170 00:08:44.879 --> 00:08:47.519 the airplane's on fire. They can only evacuate out the front. 171 00:08:47.919 --> 00:08:50.879 The video shows people coming down the exit ramps one 172 00:08:50.919 --> 00:08:53.279 after the other, after the other, after the other, and 173 00:08:53.320 --> 00:08:56.399 then it stops for like eight seconds, and then you 174 00:08:56.440 --> 00:09:01.639 see this idiot with three large bags taking his big 175 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:04.279 butt off the airplane. Moments later, the airplane blows up. 176 00:09:04.320 --> 00:09:07.279 Forty one people die. Do you think that that guy 177 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:10.679 caused the death of people behind him? Absolutely so, Brian. 178 00:09:10.759 --> 00:09:14.200 This is such a huge issue that we're just not addressing. 179 00:09:14.559 --> 00:09:16.519 And that's one of the reasons when I see that, 180 00:09:16.679 --> 00:09:20.480 the fact that people have completely ignored the instructions of 181 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:23.279 a uniform crew member, which is a felony, by the way, 182 00:09:23.639 --> 00:09:27.320 not being held accountable, it really bothers me. So that's 183 00:09:27.320 --> 00:09:32.240 what happened in Denver. But the Congressman is not necessarily 184 00:09:32.279 --> 00:09:35.200 addressing that. He says, Look, we have a ninety second 185 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:38.799 evacuation rule in aviation, and he's saying that you know, 186 00:09:38.919 --> 00:09:41.879 as you and I know, that every aircraft approved for 187 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:45.480 commercial use has to demonstrate that that plane can be 188 00:09:45.559 --> 00:09:49.080 evacuated safely in ninety seconds or less when half of 189 00:09:49.080 --> 00:09:52.360 the exits are blocked in limited visibility. Now, to make 190 00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:54.759 sure this is the case, the FAA does a test 191 00:09:54.840 --> 00:09:58.399 every few years to make sure that we're still in compliance. 192 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:01.399 So they took a group of pe people, ran the test, 193 00:10:01.879 --> 00:10:04.759 stamped it has approved. This was about five years ago, 194 00:10:05.080 --> 00:10:08.639 this congressman thing time I hear there were no children 195 00:10:08.759 --> 00:10:12.440 used in this test. There were no unaccompanied children, there 196 00:10:12.440 --> 00:10:16.080 were no children traveling with fly passengers or their families. 197 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:20.399 We had no elderly passengers, we had no service animals. 198 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:22.679 We had people of average size. 199 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:25.159 I mean, I was just going, did they do a 200 00:10:25.200 --> 00:10:28.000 study thing that included morbidly obese folks? 201 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:29.519 They did not. They did not. 202 00:10:29.679 --> 00:10:34.240 So the thought is that this isn't an accurate assessment, 203 00:10:34.320 --> 00:10:36.600 and he's calling for a do over. Now I appreciate 204 00:10:36.639 --> 00:10:42.200 the congressman's efforts here, but Brian, I so want these 205 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:46.279 efforts to be directed towards today's problem of I don't 206 00:10:46.279 --> 00:10:48.879 care if we have a ninety second achievement and it's 207 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:52.759 right or not. It's the fact that we have these 208 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:57.360 people that are defined year after year after year after year. 209 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:01.840 The the rule of leaving your large bags. 210 00:11:02.360 --> 00:11:04.679 Look, if it's winter you need to pop the top, 211 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:07.519 grab your coat and run. I totally get it. But 212 00:11:07.639 --> 00:11:10.480 to drag a bag out and slow down. The process 213 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:14.879 is to me unforgivable. And what's going to happen is, sadly, 214 00:11:15.240 --> 00:11:16.799 eventually you and I are going to have the very 215 00:11:16.840 --> 00:11:18.600 sad conversation where something. 216 00:11:18.360 --> 00:11:20.919 Happens, people die, And. 217 00:11:20.799 --> 00:11:24.200 That's when these same people who are doing nothing now 218 00:11:24.440 --> 00:11:26.879 are going to pull that hamstring running to the nearest 219 00:11:26.879 --> 00:11:29.960 microphone so they can proclaim how they care and how 220 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:33.080 they're going to make sure this doesn't happen again, and 221 00:11:33.240 --> 00:11:34.919 all the other craft that's going to come out of 222 00:11:34.919 --> 00:11:38.120 their mouth. Now's the time to do something about it. 223 00:11:38.360 --> 00:11:40.960 And with these liftium batteries that continue to overheat on 224 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:44.600 a flight at least once a week, these emergency evacuations 225 00:11:44.639 --> 00:11:47.519 are only going to increase in frequency. So if there's 226 00:11:47.679 --> 00:11:51.159 never been a more critical time for this discussion than now, 227 00:11:51.639 --> 00:11:53.559 I don't know what is and we've got to do 228 00:11:53.639 --> 00:11:54.360 something about it. 229 00:11:54.399 --> 00:11:56.600 Well, you started off on your rent and a well worthy, 230 00:11:56.639 --> 00:11:59.399 a worthy rent, I might interject, Sock is saying, you know, 231 00:11:59.440 --> 00:12:01.480 if it was, you'd find them one hundred thousand dollars. 232 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:03.480 Something that would make it stick, something will wake people 233 00:12:03.559 --> 00:12:05.840 the hell up that they shouldn't be slowing things down 234 00:12:05.919 --> 00:12:10.039 in an emergency situation. Is there currently any law on 235 00:12:10.080 --> 00:12:11.720 the book. Now you mentioned you have to obey the 236 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:13.879 orders of the flight attendant. I'm sure the flight attendant 237 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:15.960 said some of the effects, we're going to emergency evacuate, 238 00:12:16.080 --> 00:12:18.559 leave your stuff where it is. 239 00:12:18.559 --> 00:12:20.840 Is that and constantly say it over and over and 240 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:24.240 over again. Certainly eighty times they say that as passengers 241 00:12:24.279 --> 00:12:25.000 are evacuating. 242 00:12:25.159 --> 00:12:27.440 So you haven't a scene the other day from this 243 00:12:27.600 --> 00:12:29.919 tire fire where you said people were getting off the 244 00:12:29.919 --> 00:12:32.600 slide and had their bags with them right there. You 245 00:12:32.679 --> 00:12:35.200 have great illustrations, they're on video. You know who the 246 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:39.080 passenger list is. You can find the folks, find them. 247 00:12:39.559 --> 00:12:39.960 They don't. 248 00:12:40.279 --> 00:12:43.759 They don't, And that's that's one of the issues you. 249 00:12:44.519 --> 00:12:47.559 Of course, it might be, well we may not get everybody. Well, 250 00:12:47.600 --> 00:12:51.080 I don't care if you see forty eight people out 251 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:53.200 of two hundred that are out there with a large 252 00:12:53.200 --> 00:12:55.440 back This as a backpack that they pulled out from the. 253 00:12:55.399 --> 00:12:56.480 Sea before him. 254 00:12:56.519 --> 00:12:59.000 Totally understand. You can hold out to your chest and go. 255 00:12:59.360 --> 00:13:01.600 But when you're talking, but these great big things that 256 00:13:01.679 --> 00:13:06.000 just slow things down. But of course you get into 257 00:13:06.039 --> 00:13:08.720 that legal murky waters of. 258 00:13:09.159 --> 00:13:10.440 Okay, this is subjective. 259 00:13:10.759 --> 00:13:15.279 Is my large hand carried roller bag bigger or smaller 260 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:18.799 than your backpack that you had carried down. In other words, 261 00:13:18.840 --> 00:13:20.960 is everybody can gain fine, only part of them begin 262 00:13:21.440 --> 00:13:24.480 whatever it is, something's got to be done. 263 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:25.240 To send a message. 264 00:13:25.279 --> 00:13:27.919 They'll have to lawyer up and pay a guy four 265 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:30.919 hundred dollars an hour to make that argument on their behalf. 266 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:33.559 That's enough pain to go through just the legal process. 267 00:13:33.639 --> 00:13:35.919 Even if the guy's successful and convincing them that it's 268 00:13:36.039 --> 00:13:39.240 arbitrary or whatever, at least you force them to some 269 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:44.200 pain as a consequence of them putting everyone's life in jeopardy. Jeez, Louise, Jay, 270 00:13:44.519 --> 00:13:45.559 that's such a heart breaker. 271 00:13:46.440 --> 00:13:48.440 It is a lot of times we I'll have this 272 00:13:48.519 --> 00:13:50.639 discussion and somebody emails the me. He says, Jay, couldn't 273 00:13:50.639 --> 00:13:53.120 they just lock the overhead compartments to make it impossible? 274 00:13:53.759 --> 00:13:56.519 And certainly that is something that could happen, and they 275 00:13:56.559 --> 00:13:59.759 could do it. But the problem is that muscle memory 276 00:13:59.759 --> 00:14:02.279 being what it is, passengers would forget. 277 00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:02.639 That they're locked. 278 00:14:02.759 --> 00:14:03.799 Yeah, oh yeah, and. 279 00:14:04.360 --> 00:14:08.799 Precious time trying to unlock the guessing it's stuck. They're 280 00:14:08.799 --> 00:14:10.480 going to pound on it, and all that's going to 281 00:14:10.519 --> 00:14:13.679 do is slow the evacuation. Muscle memory also comes into 282 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:17.039 play during an emergency evacuation when people reach for their 283 00:14:17.039 --> 00:14:20.440 seat belts. We found in emergencies they don't look to 284 00:14:20.600 --> 00:14:24.159 lift the flap. They do as they do in a car. 285 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:26.919 In an emergency, they're putting their hand down there to 286 00:14:26.919 --> 00:14:29.519 push a button that's not there. And that's one of 287 00:14:29.600 --> 00:14:31.919 the reasons the pre mark of the pre flight briefing. 288 00:14:31.960 --> 00:14:33.919 The flight attends are reminding everyboy, look, when you're getting 289 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:36.320 out your seatbelt, you lift the flap. Most people are 290 00:14:36.360 --> 00:14:38.679 just laughing at that. No, there's a reason for it, 291 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:42.159 because we've had people trapped in their seats because they 292 00:14:42.200 --> 00:14:45.519 couldn't get their seat belt off because they're subconsciously just 293 00:14:45.559 --> 00:14:47.879 trying to push a button instead of looking down and 294 00:14:47.919 --> 00:14:48.720 lifting that flap. 295 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:50.679 Okay, I one of the people that last with it. Again, 296 00:14:50.759 --> 00:14:54.039 I have never, ever, ever not operated my airline seat 297 00:14:54.360 --> 00:14:57.519 latch incorrectly or tried to push down on a button. Sure, 298 00:14:57.600 --> 00:14:59.080 Jay Ratt, let's find out about why. 299 00:14:59.399 --> 00:15:01.840 When the planes on fire though, brother, yeah, and there's 300 00:15:01.919 --> 00:15:04.159 people freaking out and you're in that flight or. 301 00:15:04.519 --> 00:15:07.320 You know, effect light mode, who knows what we're thinking. 302 00:15:07.759 --> 00:15:09.600 Don't put me through that I don't want to find 303 00:15:09.639 --> 00:15:11.480 out what we got. More, we'll find out why a 304 00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:13.759 Delta Airline pilot was arrested. Plus we'll get a hub 305 00:15:13.799 --> 00:15:18.080 delay update and uh at a joke streker like pay 306 00:15:18.120 --> 00:15:20.440 increase rejected by United Flight attendants. 307 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:25.559 Be right back with Jay Ratliff fifty five KRC OHC. 308 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:28.120 One more. Time for the weather. 309 00:15:28.200 --> 00:15:31.039 Ten and nine says today not bad, mostly cloudy, and 310 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:33.919 uh midday storms are very likely, but we get a 311 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:36.000 drop in humidity throughout the day. Eighty three for the 312 00:15:36.039 --> 00:15:39.720 high sixty five, overnight clear skies, sunny and pleasant eighty degrees. 313 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:40.759 Tomorrow overnight low. 314 00:15:40.720 --> 00:15:43.559 Sixty one with clear skies and a partly Sunday Saturday, 315 00:15:43.559 --> 00:15:47.559 and I have eighty again, closing out at seventy seven degrees. 316 00:15:47.600 --> 00:15:48.799 Time for final traffic. 317 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:51.120 Chuck from the UC Triumphanks Center. 318 00:15:51.240 --> 00:15:54.080 You see health weight while center offers surgic on medical 319 00:15:54.080 --> 00:15:57.440 o bcdkr N expertise called five one three nine nine 320 00:15:57.519 --> 00:16:00.440 two two sixty three, and that's nine three nine two 321 00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:05.080 sixty three. Wreckcom westbound two seventy five before Kellogg is 322 00:16:05.159 --> 00:16:08.840 over on the left shoulder. No delay approaching the bridge 323 00:16:09.000 --> 00:16:12.519 southbound seventy five parak flights continued through Lachland. Same for 324 00:16:12.600 --> 00:16:17.080 northbound seventy five Futtermilk towards Kyle's Chuck Kingram on fifty 325 00:16:17.120 --> 00:16:17.720 five KRC. 326 00:16:17.919 --> 00:16:19.000 The talk station. 327 00:16:24.159 --> 00:16:26.159 Coming about seven or eight fifty to fifty five kr 328 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:29.879 CD talk station Frank Thomas. One more segment here with 329 00:16:29.879 --> 00:16:34.080 iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay Ratliffe and a Delta Airlines padd 330 00:16:34.159 --> 00:16:36.600 got arrested after the flight landed in San Francisco. 331 00:16:36.919 --> 00:16:39.559 How did what brought this about? Jay? 332 00:16:39.600 --> 00:16:43.120 This was a Minneapolis to San Francisco flight. Flight lands, 333 00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:45.919 pulls to the gate, there's announcement for everybody remained seated, 334 00:16:46.919 --> 00:16:51.200 the jet bridge is attached, the door opens in ten. 335 00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:56.440 I believe it was law enforcement officers stormed the aircraft 336 00:16:56.480 --> 00:16:59.639 and you're thinking, Okay, who are they after? Kid go 337 00:16:59.720 --> 00:17:02.919 to the pit and removed the first officer from the plane. 338 00:17:03.320 --> 00:17:08.319 Apparently there was an issue with sexual abuse children other 339 00:17:08.359 --> 00:17:09.039 types of things. 340 00:17:09.279 --> 00:17:13.240 Oh one, you know that that he was. 341 00:17:13.200 --> 00:17:17.039 Being questioned about, So what indn't that taking place? They 342 00:17:17.079 --> 00:17:20.119 removed him and out the aircraft. He went in front 343 00:17:20.160 --> 00:17:24.200 of everybody. So I don't know why it required that many, 344 00:17:24.519 --> 00:17:27.039 but I'm sure that they have a good reason for it, 345 00:17:27.079 --> 00:17:30.240 and yep, he was removed from the flight Delta. Obviously, 346 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:34.559 no comment yet because of you know, everything's still being being. 347 00:17:34.400 --> 00:17:36.839 Worked out, but that was the reason. 348 00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:39.920 Initially when it happened, we didn't know what the problem was, 349 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:43.240 but later on we were given the details and yeah, 350 00:17:43.319 --> 00:17:45.640 that's that's what was going on in that situation. 351 00:17:45.880 --> 00:17:50.480 Oh wow, Well they'll have fun in prison knowing what 352 00:17:50.480 --> 00:17:53.559 they do in prison to cho Yeah, yeah, all right. 353 00:17:54.079 --> 00:17:57.839 Joe Strecker like pay raise offered United flight attendants twenty 354 00:17:57.839 --> 00:18:03.279 six raise. He gets those every year, Jay, apparently not every. 355 00:18:03.160 --> 00:18:06.720 Quarter, but yeah, flight attendants or United said no, thanks. 356 00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:10.519 They had about yeah, they had ninety I think had 357 00:18:10.599 --> 00:18:12.839 twenty six twenty eight thousand flight A tens. Forgive me 358 00:18:13.839 --> 00:18:15.119 the numbers are going to be approximate. 359 00:18:15.160 --> 00:18:15.319 Here. 360 00:18:15.319 --> 00:18:19.119 They have ninety two percent maybe voting, and seventy some 361 00:18:19.240 --> 00:18:20.240 percent of them said no. 362 00:18:21.160 --> 00:18:22.319 They said it wasn't. 363 00:18:22.119 --> 00:18:25.680 Industry leading enough. And one of the reasons that flight attendants, 364 00:18:25.880 --> 00:18:28.880 pilots and others when they have these back and forth negotiations, 365 00:18:29.079 --> 00:18:32.359 it's a lot like an NFL contract or a baseball contract. 366 00:18:32.759 --> 00:18:33.839 You know you're going to be in it for a 367 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:36.519 number of years. And you want to make sure that 368 00:18:36.599 --> 00:18:40.200 you are being paid, you know, adequate to what everybody 369 00:18:40.200 --> 00:18:43.279 else is making, and most of these agreements you want 370 00:18:43.720 --> 00:18:47.000 to be slightly above the average so that you know 371 00:18:47.279 --> 00:18:48.799 you're going to be stuck with us for three four 372 00:18:48.960 --> 00:18:51.759 five years, that some of this is going to come 373 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:52.240 into play. 374 00:18:52.559 --> 00:18:54.119 And the flight attends are saying, look. 375 00:18:53.960 --> 00:18:56.480 We've helped United become a much better airline over the 376 00:18:56.559 --> 00:19:00.359 last several years, and it's their turn to and make 377 00:19:00.440 --> 00:19:01.880 up for our past sacrifices. 378 00:19:02.400 --> 00:19:04.039 So anytime you're getting. 379 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:05.759 Into this back and forth with salary, it's it's a 380 00:19:05.799 --> 00:19:09.759 difficult scenario. I loved Alaska Airlines and how they approach 381 00:19:09.880 --> 00:19:12.599 this with their flight attendants. They gave them at the 382 00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:16.359 time an industry leading benefit package and salary, and they said, 383 00:19:16.400 --> 00:19:19.400 if there's any agreement after this that comes out that 384 00:19:19.559 --> 00:19:23.440 makes this unfair, that's not the word, but you know 385 00:19:23.480 --> 00:19:26.759 what I mean, we'll readjust it and we will make 386 00:19:26.799 --> 00:19:31.359 it appropriate. So that was great. Other airlines, that's not 387 00:19:31.440 --> 00:19:33.759 necessarily the case. But you know, if you're an American 388 00:19:33.759 --> 00:19:36.680 flight attendant, you're hoping the United crews get a real 389 00:19:36.799 --> 00:19:38.640 nice pay raise because then when you go to the 390 00:19:38.640 --> 00:19:41.839 negotiating table. The hope is you're going to get something comparable. 391 00:19:41.920 --> 00:19:45.160 So you seventy six percent of them said no, thank 392 00:19:45.200 --> 00:19:47.000 you to a twenty six percent pay raise. 393 00:19:47.079 --> 00:19:49.079 Holy cow, that is amazing. 394 00:19:50.200 --> 00:19:52.920 All right, Well, as we typically do, let's end the 395 00:19:52.960 --> 00:19:54.920 segment on hub delays that folks are going to be 396 00:19:54.920 --> 00:19:55.480 flying today. 397 00:19:55.480 --> 00:19:57.039 What's going looking like out there for them. 398 00:19:57.359 --> 00:19:59.559 We've had times when I said, oh, the best day 399 00:19:59.599 --> 00:20:00.279 of the week to fly. 400 00:20:00.680 --> 00:20:02.519 This I think is the worst day of the week 401 00:20:02.559 --> 00:20:02.839