July 29, 2025 • 8 mins
Aviation Expert Jay Ratliff was not happy surrounding the evacuation process in Denver. Specifically the passengers
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Right, let's check in on the Legacy Retirement Group dot
com phone line our aviation expert, Jay Ratlift. You can
find him at Jay Ratlift dot com. Good morning, sir,
how are.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
You doing well?
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Pleas a good morning, absolutely Jay. What's this situation in Denver?
I'm seeing that the video there was I think it
was an American Airlines flight that had a landing gear issue.
They caught on fire. They went, they landed, and people
were evacuated coming down those emergency like shoot slide things.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Well, fortunately for you, I have taken my blood pressure
medication today. Oh, I can talk about the idiots that
decide to slow down the evacuation as a cabin's filling
with smoke to bring about their carry on luggage with them.
It's it's absolutely nuts and it drives me crazy and
it happens all the time. But the breakdown of this is,
(00:54):
we had a flight that was in the process of
taking off. The tire overheats, catches on fire, They abort
the takeoff and smoke starts to fill the cabin the cabin.
The captain immediately orders an evacuation to get everybody off
the airplane. And what takes place at that point in
time is the shoots go down, people are told by
(01:15):
the uniform crew members, leave your carry ons behind, get
off the airplane, and sadly, what happens is we have
a video of multiple idiots who feel like it's okay
to slow down the evacuation of an aircraft filling with
smoke so that they can get their large hand carry
bags that they're dragging behind them. It makes zero sense
(01:36):
to me. It happens all the time. And we can
go back to American Airlines Flight three eighty three. This
was a flight that happened in twenty sixteen. The planes
on fire. You have people that are hopefully going to
evacuate the aircraft in ninety seconds or less, but what
happens is it takes several minutes. It is so long
(01:57):
of an evacuation that when the final report came out
from the National Transportation Safety Board, who studies all of
these accidents near accidents, they said, we are having a
problem where too many people are carrying their bags off
the plane. We need to do something to address this. Now,
this was seven years ago and nothing has been done. Now,
(02:21):
we had an Aeroflot flight in Russia that got hit
by lightning had electrical fire made emergency landing. Back of
the airplane is on fire big time. The only exits
that the people can use is in the front, so
they're going out the front exit, and somebody's videotaping this
as these passengers are scrambling for their lives. People are
coming down one after another after another after another, and
(02:42):
then it stops for like seven seconds, and then you
had this absolute ass getting off the plane with three
huge bags that can barely hold onto that comes and
then the airplane explodes. Forty one people die, And I thought, Okay,
this is our visual image that's going to finally shake
(03:02):
us to the core so that we will start penalizing
these people who are not abiding by the instructions of
the flight attendant, which is a felony. And if it
were me tomorrow, anybody dragging a bag across the tarmac
after an emergency evacuation would be fined one hundred thousand dollars. Absolutely,
if you're going to place everybody's life at risk behind
(03:24):
you over your stupid idiotic bag.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I got to have my laptop, Jay, come on, and
my shoes and my laptop to go with me.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
But look, if it's winter time and my jackets in
the upper upper thing. I see, I see somebody popping
the top and grabbing their jacket. That's not a problem.
The problem is when you're rushing to get off in
that first idiot pops that thing and pulls their bag.
That's all it takes and has followed the leader. So
it's going to take something, well, I know what it's
going to take. It's going to take somebody getting hurt
(03:53):
or killed. And then these same people at the FAA
and the DOT that have done nothing for seven years
are going to hamstring running to the nearest microphone to
proclaim because they care, they're going to do such and such. Well,
guess what, that's not the time to do it. Now's
the time to do it. But sadly it's not taking place.
And it just drives me crazy when it happens, because look,
(04:16):
we're at a point where we have so many warning
signs that something's sadly going to take place, and with
these listium batteries that are overheating at the point of
one incident per week somewhere in the world, these evacuations
sadly are going to continue. We have a ninety second
evacuation rule, every aircraft is designed to get every single
passenger off the airplane in ninety seconds or less with
(04:39):
half the axis blocked. But with all of this stuff
that's been on going for years, we're nowhere near ninety seconds.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
You know, I'm looking at the video this instance in
Denver is not only does it slow the evacuation of
the plane when you stop to get your bags out,
but you have people coming down the slides, coming down
the chuots with their bag, and it throws off their
weight distribution to the point where they come down and
they kind of lose their balance, they hit the pavement
(05:08):
on the tarmac, and then you see a number of
them kind of trip and stumble and fall. There were
some injuries because of this, and it's because they had
their bags with them. Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
And I guarantee if some of these same morons are
going to sue American Airlines because they got hurt. And again,
it's all up to the FA and the Department Transportation,
the National Transportation Safety Board. That All Star team made
their recommendation seven years ago, and that's all they can do. Sadly,
most of the recommendations made by the NTSB after an
accident are ignored by the FAA.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Speak with Jay Ratlift our aviation experts. Jratlift dot com
is the place to go if you have any irregularities
you see while flying or any the question asked, Jay
is all over that for you at j ratlift dot com.
Do want to take a couple of minutes to Jay
and talk about the Delta Airlines pilot? This guy was
actually he flew his flight, landed in San Francisco and
(06:01):
then the FEDS boarded the plane. What was going on there?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Well, at the time we didn't know. It was a
flight from Minneapolis to San Francisco, had made a couple
of missed approaches because they had some bad weather. They landed,
pull up to the gate and before passengers are allowed
to deplane, you have I think up to ten uniformed
law enforcement officers to board the airplane and in essence
stormed the cockpit. Now, when you see these people coming
on a plane, you're thinking, ooh, which passenger they after?
(06:27):
And then you see him head to the cockpit and
they arrested the first officer and we later found out
it was on charges of child abuse or child something
that had to do with that, and as a result,
the individual was arrested and removed. Delta obviously not making
any comment at this point in time because they don't
(06:48):
you know, it's an ongoing investigation. But you know, the
last thing you want is your pilots to be arrested
and taken off the airplane. But yeah, it made all
the national news. It's a lot like the Delta piloting
a Stockholm that was preparing to fly and they gave
him a random alcohol breathalyzer test and he failed. They
(07:09):
waited a bit and gave him a second one. He
passed with flying colors, but they canceled the flight anyway,
So you know, as they should have done, airing on
the side of caution. But you know, anytime you have
a situation involving a pilot, that's going to go viral
big time, as obviously these stories tend to do it.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Thankfully, the plane landed safely and there was no issues there.
And is what it seems like that they realized this
guy was doing bad things involving children between the time
he left Minneapolis and the time he landed in San Francisco.
Otherwise he would not have been allowed to even take
off on that flight.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Oh yeah, and the thing is it was like, Okay,
ten people. I mean, yeah, I'm thinking that's a mini
swat team right there as far as going after this situation.
So but again, you know, they know what they're doing.
And I'm an expert at very few things. Law enforcement
is not one of them. But I've seen those people
in action. Believe me, I would not want to get
(08:01):
in their way.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, no doubt. All right, Jay, We're dealing with extreme
heat in the Midwest here. We've got the high humidity
and attempts in the nineties feeling like over one hundred
and that typically causes some you know, pop up showers.
We had those in the afternoon yesterday's showers and thunderstorms
that were looking at any hub delays this morning.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
You know, as you look at the coast to coast
radar right now, most of the major hubs are delayed
free from a weather standpoint. But the problem is those
afternoon storms, as you indicated, to pop up three four
o'clock in the afternoon and on is really what creates
the problems. And there's no way to predict where those
are going to be. So the best course of action,
as full as all these flights are, is to make
(08:37):
sure you're walking through the airport two hours before departure,
so that if there are any issues with your flight,
you're at the airport well enough in advance that the
team can take care of you.
Right, let's check in on the Legacy Retirement Group dot
com phone line our aviation expert, Jay Ratlift. You can
find him at Jay Ratlift dot com. Good morning, sir,
how are.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
You doing well?
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Pleas a good morning, absolutely Jay. What's this situation in Denver?
I'm seeing that the video there was I think it
was an American Airlines flight that had a landing gear issue.
They caught on fire. They went, they landed, and people
were evacuated coming down those emergency like shoot slide things.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Well, fortunately for you, I have taken my blood pressure
medication today. Oh, I can talk about the idiots that
decide to slow down the evacuation as a cabin's filling
with smoke to bring about their carry on luggage with them.
It's it's absolutely nuts and it drives me crazy and
it happens all the time. But the breakdown of this is,
(00:54):
we had a flight that was in the process of
taking off. The tire overheats, catches on fire, They abort
the takeoff and smoke starts to fill the cabin the cabin.
The captain immediately orders an evacuation to get everybody off
the airplane. And what takes place at that point in
time is the shoots go down, people are told by
(01:15):
the uniform crew members, leave your carry ons behind, get
off the airplane, and sadly, what happens is we have
a video of multiple idiots who feel like it's okay
to slow down the evacuation of an aircraft filling with
smoke so that they can get their large hand carry
bags that they're dragging behind them. It makes zero sense
(01:36):
to me. It happens all the time. And we can
go back to American Airlines Flight three eighty three. This
was a flight that happened in twenty sixteen. The planes
on fire. You have people that are hopefully going to
evacuate the aircraft in ninety seconds or less, but what
happens is it takes several minutes. It is so long
(01:57):
of an evacuation that when the final report came out
from the National Transportation Safety Board, who studies all of
these accidents near accidents, they said, we are having a
problem where too many people are carrying their bags off
the plane. We need to do something to address this. Now,
this was seven years ago and nothing has been done. Now,
(02:21):
we had an Aeroflot flight in Russia that got hit
by lightning had electrical fire made emergency landing. Back of
the airplane is on fire big time. The only exits
that the people can use is in the front, so
they're going out the front exit, and somebody's videotaping this
as these passengers are scrambling for their lives. People are
coming down one after another after another after another, and
(02:42):
then it stops for like seven seconds, and then you
had this absolute ass getting off the plane with three
huge bags that can barely hold onto that comes and
then the airplane explodes. Forty one people die, And I thought, Okay,
this is our visual image that's going to finally shake
(03:02):
us to the core so that we will start penalizing
these people who are not abiding by the instructions of
the flight attendant, which is a felony. And if it
were me tomorrow, anybody dragging a bag across the tarmac
after an emergency evacuation would be fined one hundred thousand dollars. Absolutely,
if you're going to place everybody's life at risk behind
(03:24):
you over your stupid idiotic bag.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I got to have my laptop, Jay, come on, and
my shoes and my laptop to go with me.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
But look, if it's winter time and my jackets in
the upper upper thing. I see, I see somebody popping
the top and grabbing their jacket. That's not a problem.
The problem is when you're rushing to get off in
that first idiot pops that thing and pulls their bag.
That's all it takes and has followed the leader. So
it's going to take something, well, I know what it's
going to take. It's going to take somebody getting hurt
(03:53):
or killed. And then these same people at the FAA
and the DOT that have done nothing for seven years
are going to hamstring running to the nearest microphone to
proclaim because they care, they're going to do such and such. Well,
guess what, that's not the time to do it. Now's
the time to do it. But sadly it's not taking place.
And it just drives me crazy when it happens, because look,
(04:16):
we're at a point where we have so many warning
signs that something's sadly going to take place, and with
these listium batteries that are overheating at the point of
one incident per week somewhere in the world, these evacuations
sadly are going to continue. We have a ninety second
evacuation rule, every aircraft is designed to get every single
passenger off the airplane in ninety seconds or less with
(04:39):
half the axis blocked. But with all of this stuff
that's been on going for years, we're nowhere near ninety seconds.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
You know, I'm looking at the video this instance in
Denver is not only does it slow the evacuation of
the plane when you stop to get your bags out,
but you have people coming down the slides, coming down
the chuots with their bag, and it throws off their
weight distribution to the point where they come down and
they kind of lose their balance, they hit the pavement
(05:08):
on the tarmac, and then you see a number of
them kind of trip and stumble and fall. There were
some injuries because of this, and it's because they had
their bags with them. Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
And I guarantee if some of these same morons are
going to sue American Airlines because they got hurt. And again,
it's all up to the FA and the Department Transportation,
the National Transportation Safety Board. That All Star team made
their recommendation seven years ago, and that's all they can do. Sadly,
most of the recommendations made by the NTSB after an
accident are ignored by the FAA.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Speak with Jay Ratlift our aviation experts. Jratlift dot com
is the place to go if you have any irregularities
you see while flying or any the question asked, Jay
is all over that for you at j ratlift dot com.
Do want to take a couple of minutes to Jay
and talk about the Delta Airlines pilot? This guy was
actually he flew his flight, landed in San Francisco and
(06:01):
then the FEDS boarded the plane. What was going on there?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Well, at the time we didn't know. It was a
flight from Minneapolis to San Francisco, had made a couple
of missed approaches because they had some bad weather. They landed,
pull up to the gate and before passengers are allowed
to deplane, you have I think up to ten uniformed
law enforcement officers to board the airplane and in essence
stormed the cockpit. Now, when you see these people coming
on a plane, you're thinking, ooh, which passenger they after?
(06:27):
And then you see him head to the cockpit and
they arrested the first officer and we later found out
it was on charges of child abuse or child something
that had to do with that, and as a result,
the individual was arrested and removed. Delta obviously not making
any comment at this point in time because they don't
(06:48):
you know, it's an ongoing investigation. But you know, the
last thing you want is your pilots to be arrested
and taken off the airplane. But yeah, it made all
the national news. It's a lot like the Delta piloting
a Stockholm that was preparing to fly and they gave
him a random alcohol breathalyzer test and he failed. They
(07:09):
waited a bit and gave him a second one. He
passed with flying colors, but they canceled the flight anyway,
So you know, as they should have done, airing on
the side of caution. But you know, anytime you have
a situation involving a pilot, that's going to go viral
big time, as obviously these stories tend to do it.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Thankfully, the plane landed safely and there was no issues there.
And is what it seems like that they realized this
guy was doing bad things involving children between the time
he left Minneapolis and the time he landed in San Francisco.
Otherwise he would not have been allowed to even take
off on that flight.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Oh yeah, and the thing is it was like, Okay,
ten people. I mean, yeah, I'm thinking that's a mini
swat team right there as far as going after this situation.
So but again, you know, they know what they're doing.
And I'm an expert at very few things. Law enforcement
is not one of them. But I've seen those people
in action. Believe me, I would not want to get
(08:01):
in their way.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, no doubt. All right, Jay, We're dealing with extreme
heat in the Midwest here. We've got the high humidity
and attempts in the nineties feeling like over one hundred
and that typically causes some you know, pop up showers.
We had those in the afternoon yesterday's showers and thunderstorms
that were looking at any hub delays this morning.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
You know, as you look at the coast to coast
radar right now, most of the major hubs are delayed
free from a weather standpoint. But the problem is those
afternoon storms, as you indicated, to pop up three four
o'clock in the afternoon and on is really what creates
the problems. And there's no way to predict where those
are going to be. So the best course of action,
as full as all these flights are, is to make
(08:37):
sure you're walking through the airport two hours before departure,
so that if there are any issues with your flight,
you're at the airport well enough in advance that the
team can take care of you.
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