July 15, 2025 • 12 mins
Turkish Airlines flight to SFO was diverted after a passenger died. A massive swarm of bees delayed deplaning as firefighters were called. Plane passengers were upset over a couple's disrespectful PDA. Air India crash findings prompted inspections of Boeing fuel switches.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We've got faulty fuel switches, a dead passenger, naked passenger,
and a bunch of bees. It sounds like tearing the
skies to me.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Bike you Zero Nior, you're Glad Roger, Get off my plane?
Proger Rogers? What's our vector?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Victor?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Enough is enough? I haven't had it with these mufty
plane snakes. On this money, it's Gary and Shannon's terror
in the skies. On KFI, we will start with the series.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Air India crash investigation continues, and now it's prompted inspections
of Boeing fuel switches and this is really terrifying stuff.
Regulators there in India and South Korea have ordered inspections
of the fuel control switches on Boeings. And I don't
know why this is limited to India and South Korea.
(00:54):
It's the same Boeings. I mean, shouldn't they all be
checked out. There was a report on the deadly Air
India crash, the one that just kind of fell out
of the sky with that one soul survivor. It showed
that the fuel supply had been cut. Indian investigators did
(01:14):
not draw any final conclusions about the cause or who
was responsible for the crash of Flight one seventy one
back in June, but it did appear to rule out
mechanical failure or design flaws, and the focus was narrowed
to the fuel switches on the Boeing seven eight seven Dreamliner.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
The most striking.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Finding was that the two fuel control switches had been
switched off seconds after takeoff. Now, each switch is equipped
with a locking mechanism to prevent any sort of accidental movement,
so it won't just switch off if the wind blows.
Experts suggest it was unlikely these switches were moved without
(02:01):
human involvement. They believe to take out double negatives there.
The experts believe there was a human involved was switching
off the fuel switch. The preliminary report said that Air
India had not carried out the suggested inspections because they
were not mandatory and that the FAA had not viewed
(02:25):
the concerns about the locking feature is serious enough to
be considered unsafe. Again, if the locking feature doesn't work,
there's no way that those switches are going to be
moved anyway. They're just too firmly set in whatever position
they're in. Maybe was the thinking, but the recommendation from
(02:46):
the FAA back in twenty eighteen recommended that carriers using
these boeings look at that locking mechanism so that they
could not be moved. That was in twenty eighteen, and then,
like I said, they did not do that because it
wasn't a mandatory. Tay, take a look at this. I
(03:07):
kind of think when it comes from the FAA, take
a look at the fuel switch, it should be mandatory.
Pretty much everything on the giant tins that fly us
through the air at thirty five thousand, I think it
should all be mandatory. And I obviously know not what
I speak in terms of aircraft or flying aircraft and
(03:29):
what that would entail. Probably impossible, as pilots will tell you,
there's a lot of holes in those planes that you
don't even know about. They're probably just fine in most cases.
Singapore's Civil Aviation Authority says it's working with airlines on
the inspections and they've checked out fuel switches. They've checked
(03:51):
out fuel switches that the inspection company it's called SCOOT
there in Singapore, that they have all looked and everything's
functioning properly. The preliminary report on the crash described a
confused interaction between the pilots about the interrupted fuel supply.
(04:12):
This goes back to Nathan Fielders the rehearsal current season.
His premise on that HBO show if you haven't watched it,
is that a lot of these catastrophic crashes, and how
could they not be a lot of them can be
traced back by the communication or the lack thereof between pilots,
and a lot of that can be described by the
airline Industri's edict that if you've got problems, you don't
(04:36):
bring them up. You just sit in your problems. You
go to one counseling session and the airline industry finds
out about it, you're grounded, probably for life.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Just don't deal with any of that.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
We don't deal in that same with medical problems. They
have no zero tolerance essentially for any of that. And
he also highlights how the pilots and the co pilots
often meet that day.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
They don't interact.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
They may go to the pilot's room, but they have
their cup of coffee separately, no small talk.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
So with this particular crash.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
And the confused interaction between the pilots, it apparently went
like this in the cockpit voice recording, One of the
pilots is heard asking the other why he did Why
did he cut off the fuel. The other pilot responded
that he did not do so. About ten seconds later,
(05:32):
the switches were turned back on, but the plane could
not regain power quickly enough to stop its descent. The
report said there are no recommended actions to the aircraft
and engine manufacturers. This was the plane, if you don't remember,
crash into that dining hall of the medical college before exploding.
(05:53):
Two hundred and sixty people killed in the crash. It
looked like it was taking it was taking off, and
all of a sudden just failed to achieve any sort
of elevation and crash into that medical building. Nineteen people
on the ground were killed as well, and there was
that one soul survivor. I thought we would hear more
about him in the ensuing weeks and months. Is he
just going to turn up on Dancing with the Stars
(06:14):
next year and we're going to be like, who is that? All?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
That's right?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
That was the guy that walked herway from that plane crash.
But troubling in that the cockpit interaction is troubling the
fact that the fuel switches were not checked out because
it wasn't a mandatory thing to check out is troubling.
The fact that they say that they could not have
been moved without human involvement is troubling.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I don't know where the fuel switches land on a
plane like this, Like are they inside, are they on the.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Outside of the fuselage? How does it work?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I have no idea, but it seems like several problems
we're at play there.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
But we continue with tear in the skies and we
have a death to talk about, guys.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
A passenger died on a Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul
to San Francisco over the weekend, causing the flight to.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Divert to Chicago.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Unfortunately, there was a medical emergency on board. Aircraft entered
a holding pattern. Flight attendants administered CPR, consulted medical personnel
on the ground, and unfortunately the passenger did not make it.
The cause of the medical emergency was not disclosed. I
(07:35):
had this happen, well, I don't know if the guy died,
and I'll never know. It's just one of those things.
But it was a flight, gosh, I don't even remember
where we were coming from, somewhere in Europe, headed back
and all of a sudden.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Look up.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
We were in the last row of the aircraft, right
next to the bathrooms. Super super econ I like to
call it. It's super economy. When you're the last row,
your chair doesn't tilt back. On an international flight, you
know you're on board for twelve hours, but your chair
doesn't tilt back. We probably got those tickets for about
one hundred and fifty dollars apiece. I mean it was awful.
(08:15):
I mean you're just sitting there smelling the economy bathroom
the whole time.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
It was truly awful. I think it was the last
flight my husband booked, and.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
This was years ago, but anyway, we're back there and
all of a sudden, I remember looking at mid flight
and seeing the flight attendant running down the aisle towards us,
towards the back of the plane. And if you've ever
seen a flight attendant running, that evokes a certain type
of terror in you as an airline passenger, current airline
(08:44):
passenger like o f because usually they're so cool, right,
they're so calm and collected, and she's running and I'm like,
oh man, and she's fidgeting in the back galley with
something that's right behind us, and then she's running back
to the front of the plane.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
What the hell's going on?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
And her face was just you know, stressed, just pure stress.
And then uh, there was a guy that they have
on one of those little it's like a airline wheelchair
and they're wheel in the back. It's very tiny. I
don't know who fits in those things anymore. He was European,
he fit. But this guy, he was middle aged, I
(09:22):
would say, I don't know, fifty to fifty five. And
he's white as a as a ghost, white hair, and
he's got blood on his face and he just looks
like he's in shock or something. I don't it look
like a medical emergency. When they say, that's exactly what
I look like. And they bring him to the back
and again it's right behind us, this galley and it's
a very small galley, and they lay him down and
(09:43):
they're doing some sort of and I'm just like, oh
my god, this freaking guy dies, Oh my gosh. Of course,
making it about me, but they all of a sudden,
the plane takes a sharp left and descends real quick,
and the pilot comes out and he says, you know,
we're gonna make an emergency landing. We've got a medical
emergency on board. And I just remember landing and I
(10:05):
saw no runway. I just saw a field of snow.
I just just snow, looking at the flight map on
the on the back seat monitor and somewhere in rural Canada. Uh,
no idea, no idea at all. But when we landed,
saw nothing but snow, and then an ambulance that had
rolled up and the guy was taken using that little
(10:27):
airplane wheelchair through the aisle and off the flight. You
don't know if the guy ever lived or died. You
hope he lived, but for them to land a plane
like that and them not be dead is a situation.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Okay, We've got another story for you where plane passengers
were very upset over a couple's disrespectful PDA act. Some people,
they have their bugaboos when it comes to flying. Right,
you want an aisle seat, but sometimes you don't get
choose who you're you're sitting next to. And unfortunately for
(11:03):
this girl who loves an aisle seat, she sat next
to a couple who they say on TikTok took PDA
to a next level. It was a four hour flight
and Apparently the woman is sitting on our male partner's
lap with her feet on her seat and she's just
(11:24):
kind of stretched with her back on his legs kind
of arched back up and he's just kind of leaning over,
and you know they're they're clearly in love. And that's
what people were responding to on TikTok, where others were saying,
this is unacceptable. This is a four hour flight, Like,
get your feet off the seat and sit up, and
(11:45):
why are you engaging in PDA? Other people said everyone's hating,
but I only see a couple in love. She's getting
comfy on the flight. She's a tiny little girl, she's
a tiny thing, tiny woman, and she's a lounge in
on her partner's lap.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
There the feet, the feet are a problem.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
The feet were kind of pointed at the other passenger
who was sitting in the aisles.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I think that's where the problem was.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
And then the massive swarm of bees. A flight in
India delayed for more than an hour after bees swarmed
the door of the aircraft. And you can see a
picture of this before it took off. It's online obviously,
and it was set to make a quick flight in India.
But the baggage handlers were loading suitcases into the aircraft.
(12:31):
All of a sudden, They say it was bombarded by
a biblical plague of stinging bees. And that's exactly what
it is. According to this the entire door is covered
in bees. I don't know how. It's like candy Man.
You ever see that movie from the early nineties.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
It's exactly what it is.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
It's candy Man on the door of this plane. Now,
how it left without incident and how nobody got stung
without incident, I do not know.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
But it delayed the flight about an hour.
We've got faulty fuel switches, a dead passenger, naked passenger,
and a bunch of bees. It sounds like tearing the
skies to me.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Bike you Zero Nior, you're Glad Roger, Get off my plane?
Proger Rogers? What's our vector?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Victor?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Enough is enough? I haven't had it with these mufty
plane snakes. On this money, it's Gary and Shannon's terror
in the skies. On KFI, we will start with the series.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Air India crash investigation continues, and now it's prompted inspections
of Boeing fuel switches and this is really terrifying stuff.
Regulators there in India and South Korea have ordered inspections
of the fuel control switches on Boeings. And I don't
know why this is limited to India and South Korea.
(00:54):
It's the same Boeings. I mean, shouldn't they all be
checked out. There was a report on the deadly Air
India crash, the one that just kind of fell out
of the sky with that one soul survivor. It showed
that the fuel supply had been cut. Indian investigators did
(01:14):
not draw any final conclusions about the cause or who
was responsible for the crash of Flight one seventy one
back in June, but it did appear to rule out
mechanical failure or design flaws, and the focus was narrowed
to the fuel switches on the Boeing seven eight seven Dreamliner.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
The most striking.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Finding was that the two fuel control switches had been
switched off seconds after takeoff. Now, each switch is equipped
with a locking mechanism to prevent any sort of accidental movement,
so it won't just switch off if the wind blows.
Experts suggest it was unlikely these switches were moved without
(02:01):
human involvement. They believe to take out double negatives there.
The experts believe there was a human involved was switching
off the fuel switch. The preliminary report said that Air
India had not carried out the suggested inspections because they
were not mandatory and that the FAA had not viewed
(02:25):
the concerns about the locking feature is serious enough to
be considered unsafe. Again, if the locking feature doesn't work,
there's no way that those switches are going to be
moved anyway. They're just too firmly set in whatever position
they're in. Maybe was the thinking, but the recommendation from
(02:46):
the FAA back in twenty eighteen recommended that carriers using
these boeings look at that locking mechanism so that they
could not be moved. That was in twenty eighteen, and then,
like I said, they did not do that because it
wasn't a mandatory. Tay, take a look at this. I
(03:07):
kind of think when it comes from the FAA, take
a look at the fuel switch, it should be mandatory.
Pretty much everything on the giant tins that fly us
through the air at thirty five thousand, I think it
should all be mandatory. And I obviously know not what
I speak in terms of aircraft or flying aircraft and
(03:29):
what that would entail. Probably impossible, as pilots will tell you,
there's a lot of holes in those planes that you
don't even know about. They're probably just fine in most cases.
Singapore's Civil Aviation Authority says it's working with airlines on
the inspections and they've checked out fuel switches. They've checked
(03:51):
out fuel switches that the inspection company it's called SCOOT
there in Singapore, that they have all looked and everything's
functioning properly. The preliminary report on the crash described a
confused interaction between the pilots about the interrupted fuel supply.
(04:12):
This goes back to Nathan Fielders the rehearsal current season.
His premise on that HBO show if you haven't watched it,
is that a lot of these catastrophic crashes, and how
could they not be a lot of them can be
traced back by the communication or the lack thereof between pilots,
and a lot of that can be described by the
airline Industri's edict that if you've got problems, you don't
(04:36):
bring them up. You just sit in your problems. You
go to one counseling session and the airline industry finds
out about it, you're grounded, probably for life.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Just don't deal with any of that.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
We don't deal in that same with medical problems. They
have no zero tolerance essentially for any of that. And
he also highlights how the pilots and the co pilots
often meet that day.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
They don't interact.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
They may go to the pilot's room, but they have
their cup of coffee separately, no small talk.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
So with this particular crash.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
And the confused interaction between the pilots, it apparently went
like this in the cockpit voice recording, One of the
pilots is heard asking the other why he did Why
did he cut off the fuel. The other pilot responded
that he did not do so. About ten seconds later,
(05:32):
the switches were turned back on, but the plane could
not regain power quickly enough to stop its descent. The
report said there are no recommended actions to the aircraft
and engine manufacturers. This was the plane, if you don't remember,
crash into that dining hall of the medical college before exploding.
(05:53):
Two hundred and sixty people killed in the crash. It
looked like it was taking it was taking off, and
all of a sudden just failed to achieve any sort
of elevation and crash into that medical building. Nineteen people
on the ground were killed as well, and there was
that one soul survivor. I thought we would hear more
about him in the ensuing weeks and months. Is he
just going to turn up on Dancing with the Stars
(06:14):
next year and we're going to be like, who is that? All?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
That's right?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
That was the guy that walked herway from that plane crash.
But troubling in that the cockpit interaction is troubling the
fact that the fuel switches were not checked out because
it wasn't a mandatory thing to check out is troubling.
The fact that they say that they could not have
been moved without human involvement is troubling.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I don't know where the fuel switches land on a
plane like this, Like are they inside, are they on the.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Outside of the fuselage? How does it work?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I have no idea, but it seems like several problems
we're at play there.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
But we continue with tear in the skies and we
have a death to talk about, guys.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
A passenger died on a Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul
to San Francisco over the weekend, causing the flight to.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Divert to Chicago.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Unfortunately, there was a medical emergency on board. Aircraft entered
a holding pattern. Flight attendants administered CPR, consulted medical personnel
on the ground, and unfortunately the passenger did not make it.
The cause of the medical emergency was not disclosed. I
(07:35):
had this happen, well, I don't know if the guy died,
and I'll never know. It's just one of those things.
But it was a flight, gosh, I don't even remember
where we were coming from, somewhere in Europe, headed back
and all of a sudden.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Look up.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
We were in the last row of the aircraft, right
next to the bathrooms. Super super econ I like to
call it. It's super economy. When you're the last row,
your chair doesn't tilt back. On an international flight, you
know you're on board for twelve hours, but your chair
doesn't tilt back. We probably got those tickets for about
one hundred and fifty dollars apiece. I mean it was awful.
(08:15):
I mean you're just sitting there smelling the economy bathroom
the whole time.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
It was truly awful. I think it was the last
flight my husband booked, and.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
This was years ago, but anyway, we're back there and
all of a sudden, I remember looking at mid flight
and seeing the flight attendant running down the aisle towards us,
towards the back of the plane. And if you've ever
seen a flight attendant running, that evokes a certain type
of terror in you as an airline passenger, current airline
(08:44):
passenger like o f because usually they're so cool, right,
they're so calm and collected, and she's running and I'm like,
oh man, and she's fidgeting in the back galley with
something that's right behind us, and then she's running back
to the front of the plane.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
What the hell's going on?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
And her face was just you know, stressed, just pure stress.
And then uh, there was a guy that they have
on one of those little it's like a airline wheelchair
and they're wheel in the back. It's very tiny. I
don't know who fits in those things anymore. He was European,
he fit. But this guy, he was middle aged, I
(09:22):
would say, I don't know, fifty to fifty five. And
he's white as a as a ghost, white hair, and
he's got blood on his face and he just looks
like he's in shock or something. I don't it look
like a medical emergency. When they say, that's exactly what
I look like. And they bring him to the back
and again it's right behind us, this galley and it's
a very small galley, and they lay him down and
(09:43):
they're doing some sort of and I'm just like, oh
my god, this freaking guy dies, Oh my gosh. Of course,
making it about me, but they all of a sudden,
the plane takes a sharp left and descends real quick,
and the pilot comes out and he says, you know,
we're gonna make an emergency landing. We've got a medical
emergency on board. And I just remember landing and I
(10:05):
saw no runway. I just saw a field of snow.
I just just snow, looking at the flight map on
the on the back seat monitor and somewhere in rural Canada. Uh,
no idea, no idea at all. But when we landed,
saw nothing but snow, and then an ambulance that had
rolled up and the guy was taken using that little
(10:27):
airplane wheelchair through the aisle and off the flight. You
don't know if the guy ever lived or died. You
hope he lived, but for them to land a plane
like that and them not be dead is a situation.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Okay, We've got another story for you where plane passengers
were very upset over a couple's disrespectful PDA act. Some people,
they have their bugaboos when it comes to flying. Right,
you want an aisle seat, but sometimes you don't get
choose who you're you're sitting next to. And unfortunately for
(11:03):
this girl who loves an aisle seat, she sat next
to a couple who they say on TikTok took PDA
to a next level. It was a four hour flight
and Apparently the woman is sitting on our male partner's
lap with her feet on her seat and she's just
(11:24):
kind of stretched with her back on his legs kind
of arched back up and he's just kind of leaning over,
and you know they're they're clearly in love. And that's
what people were responding to on TikTok, where others were saying,
this is unacceptable. This is a four hour flight, Like,
get your feet off the seat and sit up, and
(11:45):
why are you engaging in PDA? Other people said everyone's hating,
but I only see a couple in love. She's getting
comfy on the flight. She's a tiny little girl, she's
a tiny thing, tiny woman, and she's a lounge in
on her partner's lap.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
There the feet, the feet are a problem.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
The feet were kind of pointed at the other passenger
who was sitting in the aisles.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I think that's where the problem was.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
And then the massive swarm of bees. A flight in
India delayed for more than an hour after bees swarmed
the door of the aircraft. And you can see a
picture of this before it took off. It's online obviously,
and it was set to make a quick flight in India.
But the baggage handlers were loading suitcases into the aircraft.
(12:31):
All of a sudden, They say it was bombarded by
a biblical plague of stinging bees. And that's exactly what
it is. According to this the entire door is covered
in bees. I don't know how. It's like candy Man.
You ever see that movie from the early nineties.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
It's exactly what it is.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
It's candy Man on the door of this plane. Now,
how it left without incident and how nobody got stung
without incident, I do not know.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
But it delayed the flight about an hour.
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