Shock Call to Execute Elon Musk, Hegseth Impeachment Push, and Truth About Absurd Puff Piece, with Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1438

Speaking of pilots in the sky, just want to spend one minute on this because we've been talking a lot about the Learjet that went down and just, it's so disturbing.

And a lot of people's first instinct, including my own, to be honest, when I heard it, it was a 20 year old female co-pilot was, is this the DEI situation? You know, like, was there incompetence in the air? And it very much looks like, it had nothing to do with that, that she was a very competent co-pilot.

She had 1,300 hours under her belt.

She wasn't the pilot in charge.

She was the co-pilot.

And that audio tape of when that plane went down showed her being, I mean, under the circumstances, actually incredibly calm, cool, and collected.

You know, there were a couple of moments where she screamed, which is human, given what was happening to her.

But to the last second, that...

this young woman relayed the circumstances of what the plane was going through so that air traffic control and, of course, the NTSB would know.

And long after the pilot in charge had switched to praying, she was still relaying information and trying to give data that she had to know at that point would only be examined posthumously in her case.

So tip of the hat to her.

I wanted to mention this because it was sort of an extraordinary thing.

There is a meteorologist at NBC Orlando, and he's also a pilot.

His name is Eric Burris.

And he has a theory.

He was basing it on another man's theory, another pilot, I think, who posited that there is a possibility because we had Captain Steve come on of YouTube and tell us, ultimately, he thinks that it was those thunderstorms, of course, that brought down this plane and the... ice on the wings and so on, but that it is ultimately the pilot's responsibility to see the weather.

Air traffic control should tell you and should help you, but when all is said and done, it's the pilot's responsibility to know what the weather situation is and behave accordingly.

Virtually every pilot has said since, you just don't fly in a severe thunderstorm, you definitely don't fly in severe turbulence.

And the Learjet in particular has some issues that would make you avoid that like the plague.

And now we've played audio of another plane approaching the thunderstorms and being told to basically go into them by air traffic control and him saying, I'm not.

No, I refuse.

And turning his jet around.

You know, I don't know if these pilots just didn't have the experience.

The pilot in charge was 55 years old, but we don't know how long he'd been flying.

He certainly was licensed in 2016.