@GaryandShannon - #TerrorInTheSkies

The co-pilot fainted while the Captain was using the bathroom, and the Captain had trouble getting back into the cockpit.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
As I look up in the skies, I see terror,
A lot of terror. It's time for terror in the
skuys flight you dear on Nier, you are a glare
at the day off Roger, get off my plane, Proger, Rogers,
what's our vector? Victor enough, I have handed with these
multi plane snakes on this money right, it's Gary and

(00:22):
Shannon's terror in the skies on KFI. Well, it's not
only there are airports that are having a meltdowns. France's
Civil Acia Aviation Authority said some flights had to be
canceled others delayed at the Paris Orley Airport a day
after an air traffic control system suffered a break down
they said caused substantial disruption. The situation is improving. Airlines

(00:46):
have been asked to reduce flights by fifteen percent today.
That's down from forty percent on Sunday. Paris Orly serves
domestic and international flights, including to most European countries and
to the United States. They said some flights to Spain,
Portugal and southern France had to be canceled. As of today,
about thirty three million people travel through Paris Orly Airport

(01:09):
a year it's that's about half as many as Charles D.
Gaul Airport. According to the people who are in the now.
In Luftanza, there was a pilot who got up to
go to the bathroom about a half an hour left
in his flight. Co pilot says, EXO has the con

(01:32):
or whatever they say to each other when one leaves,
and then the co pilot fainted. The airbus A three
twenty one carrying two hundred passenger six crew members. The
plane's captain was in the bathroom the co pilot fainted. Now,
they said, the pilot apparently operated the controls unintentionally, which
allows the plane to continue flying because of active copilot,

(01:56):
But the voice recorder caught st changed noises in the
cockpit that were consistent with an acute health emergency, whatever
that was. So the pilot, finishing up in the john
tries re entering the cockpit using the regular door opening code,
which triggers a buzzer so that the copilot can hit

(02:18):
the button and open the door. The captain did it
five times without being able to get in, so the
stewardess tried to contact the copilot using the onboard telephone.
The captain then types in an emergency code that allows
him to open the door on his own, but shortly
before the door would have opened automatically, the copilot opened
it despite the fact that he had fainted earlier. They

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did make an unplanned landing in Madrid, where they took
the copilot to the hospital. Luftansa said, it's unaware of
the investigation report. It's only Flight Safety department. Again, this
thing happened a year ago and we're just hearing about
it now. And then finally in Taiwan, passengers bound for
the Taiwanese Kinmen Islands, little bit of a shock the

(03:01):
ATR seventy two six hundred, little prop. I shouldn't say little,
but it's a prop plane. The metal faring one of
the metal panels on the starboard engine starts flapping violently
and you can look in and see the engine whirring.
That is said. It occurred just after takeoff from an
international airport. Those on board the flight were alarmed when

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the plane began to shake with the turboprop engine looking
out the window. They were stunned. One of the passengers said,
the plane started shaking, Everybody looked out the window and
began shouting for the flight attendants, they declared an in
flight emergency, They turned around, went right back to where
they landed or where they took off from, and landed safely.
And they're still trying to figure out what caused the

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mechanical failure, despite the fact that the engine flap was
flapping