Speaker 1: We've got faulty fuel switches, a dead passenger, naked passenger,
Speaker 1: and a bunch of bees. It sounds like tearing the
Speaker 1: skies to me.
Speaker 2: Bike you Zero Nior, you're Glad Roger, Get off my plane?
Speaker 2: Proger Rogers? What's our vector?
Speaker 1: Victor?
Speaker 2: Enough is enough? I haven't had it with these mufty
Speaker 2: plane snakes. On this money, it's Gary and Shannon's terror
Speaker 2: in the skies. On KFI, we will start with the series.
Speaker 1: Air India crash investigation continues, and now it's prompted inspections
Speaker 1: of Boeing fuel switches and this is really terrifying stuff.
Speaker 1: Regulators there in India and South Korea have ordered inspections
Speaker 1: of the fuel control switches on Boeings. And I don't
Speaker 1: know why this is limited to India and South Korea.
Speaker 1: It's the same Boeings. I mean, shouldn't they all be
Speaker 1: checked out. There was a report on the deadly Air
Speaker 1: India crash, the one that just kind of fell out
Speaker 1: of the sky with that one soul survivor. It showed
Speaker 1: that the fuel supply had been cut. Indian investigators did
Speaker 1: not draw any final conclusions about the cause or who
Speaker 1: was responsible for the crash of Flight one seventy one
Speaker 1: back in June, but it did appear to rule out
Speaker 1: mechanical failure or design flaws, and the focus was narrowed
Speaker 1: to the fuel switches on the Boeing seven eight seven Dreamliner.
Speaker 2: The most striking.
Speaker 1: Finding was that the two fuel control switches had been
Speaker 1: switched off seconds after takeoff. Now, each switch is equipped
Speaker 1: with a locking mechanism to prevent any sort of accidental movement,
Speaker 1: so it won't just switch off if the wind blows.
Speaker 1: Experts suggest it was unlikely these switches were moved without
Speaker 1: human involvement. They believe to take out double negatives there.
Speaker 1: The experts believe there was a human involved was switching
Speaker 1: off the fuel switch. The preliminary report said that Air
Speaker 1: India had not carried out the suggested inspections because they
Speaker 1: were not mandatory and that the FAA had not viewed
Speaker 1: the concerns about the locking feature is serious enough to
Speaker 1: be considered unsafe. Again, if the locking feature doesn't work,
Speaker 1: there's no way that those switches are going to be
Speaker 1: moved anyway. They're just too firmly set in whatever position
Speaker 1: they're in. Maybe was the thinking, but the recommendation from
Speaker 1: the FAA back in twenty eighteen recommended that carriers using
Speaker 1: these boeings look at that locking mechanism so that they
Speaker 1: could not be moved. That was in twenty eighteen, and then,
Speaker 1: like I said, they did not do that because it
Speaker 1: wasn't a mandatory. Tay, take a look at this. I
Speaker 1: kind of think when it comes from the FAA, take
Speaker 1: a look at the fuel switch, it should be mandatory.
Speaker 1: Pretty much everything on the giant tins that fly us
Speaker 1: through the air at thirty five thousand, I think it
Speaker 1: should all be mandatory. And I obviously know not what
Speaker 1: I speak in terms of aircraft or flying aircraft and
Speaker 1: what that would entail. Probably impossible, as pilots will tell you,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of holes in those planes that you
Speaker 1: don't even know about. They're probably just fine in most cases.
Speaker 1: Singapore's Civil Aviation Authority says it's working with airlines on
Speaker 1: the inspections and they've checked out fuel switches. They've checked
Speaker 1: out fuel switches that the inspection company it's called SCOOT
Speaker 1: there in Singapore, that they have all looked and everything's
Speaker 1: functioning properly. The preliminary report on the crash described a
Speaker 1: confused interaction between the pilots about the interrupted fuel supply.
Speaker 1: This goes back to Nathan Fielders the rehearsal current season.
Speaker 1: His premise on that HBO show if you haven't watched it,
Speaker 1: is that a lot of these catastrophic crashes, and how
Speaker 1: could they not be a lot of them can be
Speaker 1: traced back by the communication or the lack thereof between pilots,
Speaker 1: and a lot of that can be described by the
Speaker 1: airline Industri's edict that if you've got problems, you don't
Speaker 1: bring them up. You just sit in your problems. You
Speaker 1: go to one counseling session and the airline industry finds
Speaker 1: out about it, you're grounded, probably for life.
Speaker 2: Just don't deal with any of that.
Speaker 1: We don't deal in that same with medical problems. They
Speaker 1: have no zero tolerance essentially for any of that. And
Speaker 1: he also highlights how the pilots and the co pilots
Speaker 1: often meet that day.
Speaker 2: They don't interact.
Speaker 1: They may go to the pilot's room, but they have
Speaker 1: their cup of coffee separately, no small talk.
Speaker 2: So with this particular crash.
Speaker 1: And the confused interaction between the pilots, it apparently went
Speaker 1: like this in the cockpit voice recording, One of the
Speaker 1: pilots is heard asking the other why he did Why
Speaker 1: did he cut off the fuel. The other pilot responded
Speaker 1: that he did not do so. About ten seconds later,
Speaker 1: the switches were turned back on, but the plane could
Speaker 1: not regain power quickly enough to stop its descent. The
Speaker 1: report said there are no recommended actions to the aircraft
Speaker 1: and engine manufacturers. This was the plane, if you don't remember,
Speaker 1: crash into that dining hall of the medical college before exploding.
Speaker 1: Two hundred and sixty people killed in the crash. It
Speaker 1: looked like it was taking it was taking off, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden just failed to achieve any sort
Speaker 1: of elevation and crash into that medical building. Nineteen people
Speaker 1: on the ground were killed as well, and there was
Speaker 1: that one soul survivor. I thought we would hear more
Speaker 1: about him in the ensuing weeks and months. Is he
Speaker 1: just going to turn up on Dancing with the Stars
Speaker 1: next year and we're going to be like, who is that? All?
Speaker 2: That's right?
Speaker 1: That was the guy that walked herway from that plane crash.
Speaker 1: But troubling in that the cockpit interaction is troubling the
Speaker 1: fact that the fuel switches were not checked out because
Speaker 1: it wasn't a mandatory thing to check out is troubling.
Speaker 1: The fact that they say that they could not have
Speaker 1: been moved without human involvement is troubling.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I don't know where the fuel switches land on a
Speaker 1: plane like this, Like are they inside, are they on the.
Speaker 2: Outside of the fuselage? How does it work?
Speaker 1: I have no idea, but it seems like several problems
Speaker 1: we're at play there.
Speaker 2: But we continue with tear in the skies and we
Speaker 2: have a death to talk about, guys.
Speaker 1: A passenger died on a Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul
Speaker 1: to San Francisco over the weekend, causing the flight to.
Speaker 2: Divert to Chicago.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, there was a medical emergency on board. Aircraft entered
Speaker 1: a holding pattern. Flight attendants administered CPR, consulted medical personnel
Speaker 1: on the ground, and unfortunately the passenger did not make it.
Speaker 1: The cause of the medical emergency was not disclosed. I
Speaker 1: had this happen, well, I don't know if the guy died,
Speaker 1: and I'll never know. It's just one of those things.
Speaker 1: But it was a flight, gosh, I don't even remember
Speaker 1: where we were coming from, somewhere in Europe, headed back
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden.
Speaker 2: Look up.
Speaker 1: We were in the last row of the aircraft, right
Speaker 1: next to the bathrooms. Super super econ I like to
Speaker 1: call it. It's super economy. When you're the last row,
Speaker 1: your chair doesn't tilt back. On an international flight, you
Speaker 1: know you're on board for twelve hours, but your chair
Speaker 1: doesn't tilt back. We probably got those tickets for about
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty dollars apiece. I mean it was awful.
Speaker 1: I mean you're just sitting there smelling the economy bathroom
Speaker 1: the whole time.
Speaker 2: It was truly awful. I think it was the last
Speaker 2: flight my husband booked, and.
Speaker 1: This was years ago, but anyway, we're back there and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I remember looking at mid flight
Speaker 1: and seeing the flight attendant running down the aisle towards us,
Speaker 1: towards the back of the plane. And if you've ever
Speaker 1: seen a flight attendant running, that evokes a certain type
Speaker 1: of terror in you as an airline passenger, current airline
Speaker 1: passenger like o f because usually they're so cool, right,
Speaker 1: they're so calm and collected, and she's running and I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh man, and she's fidgeting in the back galley with
Speaker 1: something that's right behind us, and then she's running back
Speaker 1: to the front of the plane.
Speaker 2: What the hell's going on?
Speaker 1: And her face was just you know, stressed, just pure stress.
Speaker 1: And then uh, there was a guy that they have
Speaker 1: on one of those little it's like a airline wheelchair
Speaker 1: and they're wheel in the back. It's very tiny. I
Speaker 1: don't know who fits in those things anymore. He was European,
Speaker 1: he fit. But this guy, he was middle aged, I
Speaker 1: would say, I don't know, fifty to fifty five. And
Speaker 1: he's white as a as a ghost, white hair, and
Speaker 1: he's got blood on his face and he just looks
Speaker 1: like he's in shock or something. I don't it look
Speaker 1: like a medical emergency. When they say, that's exactly what
Speaker 1: I look like. And they bring him to the back
Speaker 1: and again it's right behind us, this galley and it's
Speaker 1: a very small galley, and they lay him down and
Speaker 1: they're doing some sort of and I'm just like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, this freaking guy dies, Oh my gosh. Of course,
Speaker 1: making it about me, but they all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: the plane takes a sharp left and descends real quick,
Speaker 1: and the pilot comes out and he says, you know,
Speaker 1: we're gonna make an emergency landing. We've got a medical
Speaker 1: emergency on board. And I just remember landing and I
Speaker 1: saw no runway. I just saw a field of snow.
Speaker 1: I just just snow, looking at the flight map on
Speaker 1: the on the back seat monitor and somewhere in rural Canada. Uh,
Speaker 1: no idea, no idea at all. But when we landed,
Speaker 1: saw nothing but snow, and then an ambulance that had
Speaker 1: rolled up and the guy was taken using that little
Speaker 1: airplane wheelchair through the aisle and off the flight. You
Speaker 1: don't know if the guy ever lived or died. You
Speaker 1: hope he lived, but for them to land a plane
Speaker 1: like that and them not be dead is a situation.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Okay, We've got another story for you where plane passengers
Speaker 1: were very upset over a couple's disrespectful PDA act. Some people,
Speaker 1: they have their bugaboos when it comes to flying. Right,
Speaker 1: you want an aisle seat, but sometimes you don't get
Speaker 1: choose who you're you're sitting next to. And unfortunately for
Speaker 1: this girl who loves an aisle seat, she sat next
Speaker 1: to a couple who they say on TikTok took PDA
Speaker 1: to a next level. It was a four hour flight
Speaker 1: and Apparently the woman is sitting on our male partner's
Speaker 1: lap with her feet on her seat and she's just
Speaker 1: kind of stretched with her back on his legs kind
Speaker 1: of arched back up and he's just kind of leaning over,
Speaker 1: and you know they're they're clearly in love. And that's
Speaker 1: what people were responding to on TikTok, where others were saying,
Speaker 1: this is unacceptable. This is a four hour flight, Like,
Speaker 1: get your feet off the seat and sit up, and
Speaker 1: why are you engaging in PDA? Other people said everyone's hating,
Speaker 1: but I only see a couple in love. She's getting
Speaker 1: comfy on the flight. She's a tiny little girl, she's
Speaker 1: a tiny thing, tiny woman, and she's a lounge in
Speaker 1: on her partner's lap.
Speaker 2: There the feet, the feet are a problem.
Speaker 1: The feet were kind of pointed at the other passenger
Speaker 1: who was sitting in the aisles.
Speaker 2: I think that's where the problem was.
Speaker 1: And then the massive swarm of bees. A flight in
Speaker 1: India delayed for more than an hour after bees swarmed
Speaker 1: the door of the aircraft. And you can see a
Speaker 1: picture of this before it took off. It's online obviously,
Speaker 1: and it was set to make a quick flight in India.
Speaker 1: But the baggage handlers were loading suitcases into the aircraft.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, They say it was bombarded by
Speaker 1: a biblical plague of stinging bees. And that's exactly what
Speaker 1: it is. According to this the entire door is covered
Speaker 1: in bees. I don't know how. It's like candy Man.
Speaker 1: You ever see that movie from the early nineties.
Speaker 2: It's exactly what it is.
Speaker 1: It's candy Man on the door of this plane. Now,
Speaker 1: how it left without incident and how nobody got stung
Speaker 1: without incident, I do not know.
Speaker 2: But it delayed the flight about an hour.