11.5: Plane Crash Aftermath - Hour 3

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is seven oh five here News Radio A forty
whas Nick coffee with you. It is Coffee and Company
and we are fueled by Thornton's. And joining us now
is Carrie Grace of WLKY. Kerrie, I know you've been
at the airport throughout the morning and you've done a
phenomenal job with your coverage throughout the morning and we
appreciate you making time for us. Can you walk us through?
I guess what investigators and first responders are currently doing

(00:21):
at this hour. Obviously the fire has been put out,
but still a lot of folks on scene.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yeah, that's right. Hey, good morning. You know, we've been
here when it was dark, but now that the sun
is up, you could actually see some smolder and you
can see some smoke still coming from that accident scene. Again,
the fire was put out several hours ago, but now
we can still see that there's some smoke out there
here at the airport. You know, we know a few
flights have been canceled, but a lot of folks are

(00:48):
getting dropped off in the departure, so there are some
flights that are still going to take off. We're hearing
that it's down to one runway so there are definitely
going to be some delays and backups today. Also, NTSB
is going to be on the ground today. We're told
about twenty five investigators are planning to come out and
start surveying that accident.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Seeing I know you talked to Mayor Greenberg just a
moment ago, and we still don't have an updated number
as far as the total total who have lost their lives,
but it certainly seems as if there's an expectation that
that number will grow.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah, sadly, only seven fatalities have been confirmed, but we
do know there are several people in the hospital and
some of them are in critical condition. But also there
are just parts of the scene that they have not
been able to get to, and there are still some
people reported missing. So Mayor Greenberg is expecting that number
to rise at some point today.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Kerry Grace of WKA wise our guest joining us here
at news radio eight to forty. Whas for folks who
live or work near that area Grade Lane corridor, what
kind of damage in disruption could they be facing today?
I feel as if you kind of mentioned earlier with
the sun just now coming up, the visual of sort
of I guess the impact is still to be determined,
it seems.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
It's interesting because the accident happened around five point fifteen,
so the sun was still you know, up when it happened,
but it went down quickly after. Therefore, I don't think
people had time to really survey the damage because they
were still putting out the fire as the sun was
going down. So this morning we're definitely gonna get a
better look at what happened and get a better look
at just like how big that debris field is. We

(02:23):
are told though, that the shelter in place has been
reduced to a quarter of a mile from the accident scene.
So as of this morning, it was any mile radius
of the accident scene. Now it's a quarter of a mile,
So if you live there, they are asking you to
stay inside. And we also know, you know that JCPS
is out of school today as well, so there won't
be any you know, buses running in that area or

(02:44):
anything like that.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
Carrie, As you mill around the airport and you see
folks like you mentioned there are some folks that are
being dropped off that are going to fly out today,
what's kind of the vibe, like, do you have a
chance to maybe sense how people are feeling in lieu
of this tragedy.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, so we're seeing from where we are a whole
lot of people being dropped off. But our reporter Blakelee
McHugh has been inside the airport this morning and she
talked to a lot of folks who had to sleep
in the airport overnight because their flights got canceled, and
so they all just said they understand. I mean, one
guy she talked to said he saw it happen, and

(03:19):
I mean, I can't imagine the fear. I can't imagine
the fear that went through you know, your brain if
you're about to get on an airplane and you look
out and you see a plane crash. So those people
were I think, visibly, you know, shaken, but at the
same time understanding of the tragedy.

Speaker 4 (03:35):
What do the TSA lines look like this morning, do
you know, Carrie?

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Uh No, I don't know. I did hear Blakely say
I am going to go in the airport in just
a minute ago.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
I did hear.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Blakely say that the TSA lines were back open, which
they did reopen this morning, but last night, you know,
everything was shut down.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
Well, Kerr, we appreciate your time this morning. I know
you're very busy and you've done a great job with
the coverage. We certainly appreciate that, so keep up the
great work and again, thank you so much for joining
us this morning.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
No, thank you.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
That is Carry Grace Wkhy again. She just spoke with
Mary Greenberg about twenty twenty five minutes ago roughly, and
it certainly seems right now the biggest takeaway from me
so far this morning at seven ten is that there
are going to be more deaths, and that was that
was the expectation last night. But it seems as if

(04:24):
this morning hearing and we can we can reset that
sound for you as well. She joined as he joined
WKY to talk to Carry that there's a process of
just updating that number as you go, as far as
a lot of things, notifying family, relying on the coroner,
and trying to find people, and that's and that's that's

(04:44):
that's clearly still a component of what we're dealing with
right now, which is just another another sign of how
tragic this situation is.

Speaker 4 (04:51):
And a constant reminder, Nick for those of you who
live along either either side of the airport and the
landing zone or the approach zone. Do you have a
plan in moving forward? If you have families, are their
places to reunite? Numbers, cell phones, et cetera. So an
unfortunate reminder, but yet something we should all tackle and
just applaud you and everybody and carry grace overed. Okay,

(05:12):
why keeping everybody informed?

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Yep, we will keep you guys informed as best we
can throughout the morning. Here Alex Done of ABC News
set to join us on the other side. First, let's
get a check of traffic and weather right here at
news Radio eight forty whas it is seven sixteen here
at news RADIOA forty whas Nick coffee with you. It
is coffee and Company, and we are fuel about Thornton's
Scott Fitz shared alongside. And we're now joined by Sam
Sweeney of ABC News. The NTSB here in Louisville for

(05:38):
obvious reasons, Sam, what can you tell us as far
as those that have no clue what to expect when
it comes to an NTSB investigation in any kind of
a timeline.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
Sure, the NTSB is the gold standard when it comes
to air traffic investigation. They have a go team on
their way. They're expected to be on the ground in
Louisville by ten o'clock this morning, and we'll get our
first briefing at three o'clock. Will continue to brief at
least likely through tomorrow or the next day. They will
not speculate on a cause. They are methodical and they

(06:08):
will go piece by piece through all of this and
they will not rule anything out. Typically, when there's a
plane crash of this magnitude, there are multiple factors that
are involved, that multiple causes, and they will go through that,
and then after thirty days, they will give a preliminary
report of the facts that they have uncovered. But it'll

(06:29):
take at least eighteen months to possibly two years before
we get a report. Sometimes they do it in a year,
and when that report comes out, it will lay out
all of the facts of what happened and then a
probable cause, and then they will make recommendations to the
broader aviation community to prevent such an incident like this
from happening again.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
Good information there. SAM certainly appreciate that. When it comes
to the NTSB, they say that the MD eleven is
thirty four years old, What do we know as far
as the age and what that for those who don't
know much about av at all. When when they hear that,
they may think, wow, that that's a plane that is
that is up there in age that maybe shouldn't have
been still still operating. Is there any any any info

(07:10):
you can provide as far as just in context what
that means in the in the in the avy industry.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
Sure, you know, that is thirty four years old. Sounds scary,
but if you maintain a plane, it can fly forever. Uh.
And that's what they're going to be looking at. They
will look at the maintenance logs. And we should mention
that this plane was out of service for several weeks
from September into October, and then the day before this
crash it was also out of service for three days
or several days, I should say, And that is likely

(07:39):
because of heavy maintenance that was done. Is that a
cause of this, uh, you know, this incident. Possibly, but
it also could be that there was you know, debris
on the runway and it went through the engine, caused
a catastrophic engine failure and punctured the fuel tank. We
simply don't know what happened or what led to this,
but they will find out. Now we are seeing pieces

(08:01):
large chunks of the engine on the runway. That is
going to be a big clue into what happened here
and what caused this crash.

Speaker 4 (08:08):
Now, sam much like what we saw I remember when
the seven thirty seven Max went into had its issues,
and of course Congress got involved.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
Here.

Speaker 4 (08:16):
Not only did we see it here at home, but
we also saw you know, folks internationally looking. The MD
eleven obviously flies internationally. Once sort as you get through
the investigation, how soon does Congress start stepping in here,
and maybe some governmental organizations worldwide step in because obviously
UPS is a worldwide global transporter of goods. What sort

(08:38):
of the procedure there and does the federal government have
the power to say, okay, look, you've got to take
these MD elevens out of service?

Speaker 3 (08:45):
Sure this So this is a little bit different than
this seven thirty seven Max situation in that that that
was a brand new airplane and it had a design flaw,
and that design flaw spread across the fleet and put
everybody in danger. This MD eleven one, it hasn't been
manufactured in decades. It's a very old plane, so it's
most likely not a design flaw. It's some sort of

(09:10):
you know, outside variable. It could be a maintenance issue.
It could have like I said, debris on the runway.
We just don't know yet. But if they find out
that there is something inherently wrong with the aircraft and
that it could potentially affect other NV elevens in service,
they would then put out what's known as an airworthiness
directive to fix that issue. But it's highly unlikely that

(09:31):
this is a design flaw from the MD eleven that
again hasn't been manufactured in decades.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
Sam Sweeney BABC is our guest joining us here on
news radio eight forty WHS. Do we have any clue
as far as just the expected timeline for UPS to
start getting back to normal as best they can, We
don't know.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
It'll take likely several days. One runway is now open
in Louisville, but they have ceased operations, you know, for
the time being. My guess is they will probably begin
to ramp up things later on this afternoon or tonight.
They do have to make sure that the area is clear,
that the air is safe to breathe in that area,
and that their normal working conditions are safe for their

(10:15):
employees to return, and nothing will happen until they can
figure that out.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
Sam, we appreciate your time, keep up the great work,
and again great, thank you so much for taking the
time to join us this morning.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
That is Sam Sweeney b ABC News. Good stuff. There
one thing that I have certainly picked up along the
way this morning, Scott, as someone who is not super
familiar or really i'll be transparent, not at all familiar
with an NTSB investigation in the timeline, but this will
take a long time. A year sounds like at minimum,
And I would say the initial update that we get
from them will be a reiteration of a lot of

(10:49):
facts that we seem to already know. They will probably
confirm that, maybe put a little bit more detail and
info on those facts that only they would be able
to do.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
It sounds like, you know, it's funny because my family
used to get on me on Saturday afternoons on the
Smithsonian Channel, one of my favorite specials to watch, We're
Air Disaster. My wife is like, how do you watch these?

Speaker 3 (11:05):
Well?

Speaker 4 (11:05):
What those doers? Those give you a great historical account
of NTSB investigations and it gives you a great look
into what's going on. You can stream them now if
you want to see maybe what this investigation will entail,
and you appreciate what Sam was talking about in the
length it's going to take to find out what happened.
I did want to mention the history of the MD
eleven too, and Mike was sort of telling me this

(11:28):
off the air, that they've had some issues with landings
as well, because the MD eleven has had problems with
a sensitive center of gravity, if that makes sense. And
I can't do any justice because I don't fly the
MD eleven like Mike did, but they've also had some
tail and landing gear issues. Not that that's going to
be a part of this crash however, but the MD
eleven does have a checkered past, and so you wonder

(11:51):
if they're going to pull them all out of service
now and they're just going to say it's time to
put these out to pasture.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
This is the kind of situation they could certainly send
lead to that.

Speaker 4 (11:59):
That's why I asked the quest questioning about the seven
thirty seven Max, and you know he is. Sam had
a great point, So we'll see what else happens.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
Good stuff. We've got a quick update of trafficking weather
on the way. We also have another update from Mayor Greenberg.
We will let you hear. This was after he had
his live hit with WLKY in the six o'clock hours,
So again we'll get to that as soon as we
can right here at news Radio eight forty Whas seven
thirty five. Here News Radio eight forty whas it is
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(12:27):
quick update on traffic. We have a traffic nightmare seemingly
right now on gen Snyder South at seventy one. You
have all lanes that are blocked. The camera snapshot is
not available from the from the tramark here, but again
all lanes closed. So I would imagine, without even needing
a visual, that's going to be a mess. But again,

(12:48):
all lanes closed Gene Snyder South at seventy one. We'll
get another traffic update for you coming up here in
just a few minutes with Bobby Ellis. We did hear
another update from the mayor. So Mayor Greenberg, he was
on earlier with Carrie Grace in the six o'clock hour
giving an update, and then he shortly after then went
to social media to share another update. And here is

(13:08):
that For those that have not been following along, this
is Mayor Greenberg again. This is the latest update on
the situation yesterday here with the plane crash and the
explosion and the aftermath here in Louisville.

Speaker 5 (13:19):
Good morning, Louisville. The Governor and I just got an
early morning briefing from state and local emergency responders. Just
wanted to provide you with a morning update on the
tragic ups plane crash that happened overnight. The search will
resume this morning at daybreak looking for additional victims. We
unfortunately expect that the casualty count will rise. We have

(13:42):
reduced the shelter in place radius to just a quarter mile.
We've been monitoring the air quality overnight, will continue to
do that, but that shelter in place radius has been reduced.
The airport has also reopened a runway and so flights
will now be able to take off and land at
Louisville International Airport. NTSB is arriving here in just a

(14:05):
few short hours. I'll be joining them when they land.
Their investigation will immediately continue. We'll continue to keep you
updated with information as soon as we get it. Most importantly,
continue to keep these victims in their families, in your prayers.
The families that are still looking for information about their
loved ones, We're working to get them that information as

(14:26):
quickly as possible. But we come together during these times
as we always do. We continue to pray for the
victims' families and we will continue to keep you up
to date.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
Again, that's Mayor Greenberg with the latest update. Nick Coffee
with you, Scott Fitzgerald and John Shannon alongside John Alden
with us as well as we've continued our coverage and
done our absolute best we can to keep you updated
with all the information that you need to know and
that you want to know. Right now, still seven confirmed
as far as the fatalities with this disaster, and it
certainly seems is that that number is going to grow.

(14:59):
And there's some Abbia reasons as to why they have
to wait until they can confirm any other deaths. But
John Shannon's with us here now. It sounds as if
we have a report of a number of individuals, maybe
not loved, maybe not necessarily potential victims, but people who
are trying to find somebody that they've not been able
to account for since this yesterday.

Speaker 6 (15:17):
Yes, governorshare in talking last night, and then independent journalists
former WHS reporter Shaye McCallister reporting this morning that at
least sixteen people have contacted the Governor's office saying that
they cannot account for a loved one that was in
that area around that time with the crash. So we
have now seven dead, eleven injured too critical and those

(15:40):
two are in the burn unit at U of L,
and now sixteen unaccounted for.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
Yeah, the scenario where you're somebody in that situation that
I cannot imagine. I really can't. And that's probably not
I mean, I no clue what to expect as far
as that number, But no number would have surprised me
as far as just when you see the visual and
really just knowing what the explosion was in the plane itself,

(16:07):
the amount of fuel on the plane, it could have
been triple the amount of what we know right now,
and again it would wouldn't necessarily have shocked me. So again,
if you are somebody that is looking for someone you
cannot account for that you think may have been in
that area and you're worried, they are reminding everybody that
you need not to go to the hospital. That what

(16:28):
they want you to do is to head to the
victim the family Family Reunification Area that is at the
LMPD Training Facility. It's on Taylor Boulevard, So again it's
the Family Reunification Area also known as the LMPD Training
Facility twenty nine to eleven Taylor Boulevard. That is the location.
That's where the Red Cross, LMPD Victim Services and chaplains
are there providing support. So thoughts and prayers to everyone

(16:52):
impacted by this at this point. And you know, an
another layer to this is just as you see the
fire getting I'm not an expert, most of us aren't
when it comes to just looking at a fire and
how scary it looks, but knowing that there are countless
firefighters from Louisville from surrounding areas that are running into

(17:12):
that to try to put it out. I mean, imagine
being the spouse or the child of one of those
firefighters who you know, that's what they sign up to do.
They know that when situations like that, unfortunately do occur,
that is when they're called upon without hesitation, and today
certainly a day yesterday I guess more so fitting, but
really just a reminder overall with this situation to appreciate

(17:35):
those that do that.

Speaker 6 (17:36):
And you know, the governor pointed out last night that
there were no hazardous according to the manifest there was
no hazardous chemical, hazardous materials on the aircraft. But there
and one of the reasons why they're saying don't touch
any of the debris. Why Jody mym was saying, if
you see any of the debris, don't touch it. Why
Brian O'Neil saying, don't touch the debris, just because of
the nature of jet a fuel, high octane fuel, and

(17:58):
the fact that it had a full load thirty eight
thousand gallons to fly it from here straight to Hawaii,
plus all of the pol the petroleum oil lubricants that
go into making an airplane function. When that burns and
explodes the way it did in such a violent fashion
and then gets into the air, and we saw last
night on WLKY the plume showed up on their weather radar,

(18:19):
on their dopper weather radar and got into the air.
It's gonna carry those particulates. It's gonna expose us firefighters
to it in the same way, almost like the nine
to eleven first responders did with all the hazardous chemicals
that were in the air when the twin towers came down,
So you don't know, I mean that adds another layer
of hazard just to the hazardous nature of fighting a
fire itself.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
Yeah, and I'm not surprised that it's needed to be said,
but it was quite clear right from the jump when
we started to hear from the local leaders, all of them,
the Sheer, even mayor Greenberg. But stay away from the scene.
And this day and age, it's not a surprise at
all that some people would try to get there for
their own version of social media content, just to get it,

(19:01):
just to get a snapshot that maybe nobody else has.
But they're encouraging you to stay away, and hopefully folks
folks did as they were as they were advised last night.
Let's get to a quick time out. I want to
talk a little more about the plane itself. We've had.
I've I've learned a lot about uh AV this morning
from from from from YouTube guys specifically, as well as
some of our guests. But uh that, to me, I
think is going to be maybe more more of a

(19:22):
national conversation. Just as far as okay should should this,
it could could this have been prevented, had maybe and
again it's it's it certainly would it could have should.
You don't want to be the armshair quarterback. But that
that that's what happens when you have a situation so
tragic like this one. So we'll revisit that conversation in
just a moment. But verse, let's get an update of
traffick and weather. H make sure you have your listening
years on because Bobby Ellis will give us the latest

(19:43):
on an accident that has shut down seventy Gene Snyder
seventy one south right in that area, all lanes blocks.

Speaker 4 (19:50):
So you got you got one just open now, okay,
just two seconds ago while you were teasing Bobby so
one way.

Speaker 1 (19:56):
Yeahs, you're on the spot this morning. Good stuff, Thank
you guys. Keep it locked right here with us at
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Here it news Radio eight forty whas Nick coffee with you,
Coffee and company, and I've got company with me, the
one and only John Shannon, also Scott Fitzgerald alongside John Shannon.
I'm sorry, John Alden he's here as well. So we've
it's been a full team effort this morning as we

(20:17):
continue to keep you updated on the latest information in
regards to the plane crash yesterday of a UPS plane
and the plane specifically is that has already been a big,
big part of the conversation since this this tragic crash
took place yesterday flight two nine seven six. So the
plane being thirty four years old, I think it is
h that to me is someone who has no knowledge

(20:39):
when it comes to anything plane av That to me
sounds oh wow, that plane is I mean, imagine imagine
a thirty four year old vehicle on the roadways. But again,
what do I know?

Speaker 7 (20:47):
But it's not that rare, right, No, no, And especially
with the freighters or the big wide bodies that have
been converted to freighters, you can actually extend their lifespan
out that long because there's not a lot of pressurization,
depressurization in the cabin where the where the palettes are,
and the actually the load stress I've read on you know,
takeoffs and landings and.

Speaker 6 (21:10):
For the for the aircraft pluster converted freighters is a
lot less. So you can get a lot more life
out of an MD eleven uh thirty four years of
life out of an MD eleven, more so as a
freighter than you could have tried to keep it as
a passenger airliner generating revenue that way.

Speaker 4 (21:25):
Well, the MD eleven's had issues because it has a
strange center of gravity on it. It's had some issues
with takeoffs and with landings because they've they've had to
come in at a higher rate to land the aircraft,
and and they've had some issues with their pitch, et cetera.
So the aircraft has been plagued a long time.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
Now.

Speaker 4 (21:42):
What Sam's winning brought up, which I thought was very
interesting when he was talking to you, and again without
trying to speculate here, debris on the runway because if
you remember back that's what brought the concord down in Paris. Yes,
could something have gone up into the engine in John
as you mentioned earlier, a bird fly across the engine,
et cetera. So again that's why NTSP is right paid
the big money. But this looking at the video, and

(22:04):
I'm glad you Mike pointed out. That's first thing I
said to my wife was every pilot knows when you
get to that point on the runway, that's the point
of no return. You either got to go or and
they were clearly there.

Speaker 6 (22:16):
Right.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
There's probably something that just comes so natural when you've
done it so many times.

Speaker 4 (22:21):
Exactly and exactly at that point too.

Speaker 6 (22:24):
If they're at that commit and the last thing I
saw in Flight Radar twenty four's website was it had
a ground speed of two hundred and twelve miles an hour.
So they're at a commit point where they've got to
take off. If you know you've got a situation on
the plane, you want to try to get airborne, get
up and a way and see if you can assess
it and save the aircraft, or at least get it
away from a civilian area and try to dump fuel.

(22:45):
There was no hope for that one. But NTSB, like
as you said, NTSB will be here. But in addition,
Boeing will send engineers, and Pratt and Wendy Whitney, who
manufactures the engines, will send engineers too, and they will
pick this thing apart with a fine tooth comb to
try to figure out what happened to this thirty four
year old aircraft.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
So it sounds like NTSB the process is going to
be a very lengthy one as far as officially closing
the book, on this entire ordeal, But it is two
guys who have followed and just enjoyed watching and seeing
what it is that goes into these NTSB investigations. What
would you say would be just the first things that
they I mean, it's got to just be the remnants,

(23:22):
right like the things that you mentioned, as far as
just what's on the roadway. That'll that could be the
first sign as far as how something like this could happen.

Speaker 6 (23:28):
Their first priority will be to locate the black boxes,
if they survived and if they're undamaged. The black boxes
voice both the voice recording recorder black box and the
one that records all the flight down of the inputs,
the flaps, what's going on with the engines, are there
any warning sensors going off? It's all recorded. They're going
to find those and that'll give them the first indication

(23:49):
really on where to start looking on what caused this accident.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
As far as what was heard as somebody clearly realized
something was wrong, yeah.

Speaker 4 (23:57):
Without a doubt. And then then they need to start,
like weird t out the air conversations about how you
know it's such a pot You have an inner city airport,
so it's so populated on both sides, and John we
talked about unfortunately they were going the other way. Fortunately
in the case, it could have been a lot worse
with the neighborhoods. Yes, but now if you start having
those conversations, what do we need to do now. I

(24:19):
used to work for the Airport Authority. I worked there
during the minors lane relocation when they were trying to
move people up that time because of noise, but also
about safety. I mean I walked Shelby Park every day
in low flying at ups all do their elephant.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
Walk, the scenarios and just endless things you could think
of as far as how this could have been so
much worse.

Speaker 6 (24:38):
I mean, actually, you turn the plane around and it
takes off on runway you know direction, runway thirty five
instead of seventeen, and comes this way across the fair grounds,
across I sixty five, I sixty four interchange and heads
this way. Then you're upping the potential for casualties immensely.

(24:58):
And you see, you and I and John Alden is
welcome attest this in the mornings, coming in on sixty five.
It's just constant on both runways, just just lights of
those airplanes taken off.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
Yeah, and my son, who's who loves he's super interested
in a lot of things, including airplanes, and when he
sees the how close you are to a plane when
you're on sixty five and they're landing at ups not
just the airport, although that's really close as well. I'm
not just used to it. I'm now used to just
looking up as if the plane is ten feet above me.

(25:30):
But for him, you know, it's still something very new
and just different for him. And I thought about that yesterday,
just because I wasn't near the scene by any means,
but just thinking about I mean, I hate to say, well,
it's surprise it hasn't, because you don't want to just
act like these things are normal. They are not. But
but there's potential thread of this every day, not because

(25:51):
anybody's doing anything wrong, but just because the nature of
what it is.

Speaker 4 (25:53):
Yeah, obviously it's the airport. Is why when they built Worldport,
they committed to that airport staying in that location. It's
not going anywhere. The question is now, what do we
look at as far as people who live along there. Yes,
that's because you have you also have other airports. I
was looking up around the country. LaGuardia. You have Nework Midway, Yes,
Iago I love Field.

Speaker 6 (26:13):
Dallas love Field and Midway are very interesting to land
on just because of the short runways and southwest going
in there. You know, I just thought about this. This
is the third aircraft related incident within the last three
months involving one of the Louisville area airports. You had
the plane that took off from Bowman that crashed the biplane.

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Then you had the jet that skidded off the end
of the runway onto the golf course at Bowman.

Speaker 1 (26:38):
And now this, I mean, so did that did one
of those you mentioned include the the the Mount Washington crash? Okay,
that's thought the biplane thought. I thought, that's what you meant,
But just make it sure. So yeah, and these are
things you don't I mean, having those three incident. You
could go ten years and have none of that, and
then you have this many in this amount of time.
It's uh, it's just a reminded. You know, there's no

(26:59):
RHM or reason necessary that any of those are connected,
but it is just a reminder that at any moment
it could happen. And it's a scary, scary thing.

Speaker 4 (27:06):
Unless we forget we've got an amusement park, and we've
all got a sixty thousand foot or sixty thousand seeds
stadium in a landing pattern as well. Lots lots to
think about after we get through this initial investigation. Yes,
there are gonna be a lot of other questions that
are gonna come out.

Speaker 1 (27:19):
Of no doubt about it. All Right, we've got to
get to a quick up bit of traffic and weather,
no sports as we wrap up the seven o'clock hour,
given the nature of what we're doing this morning, so
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