On this episode of Av Talk, we continue our conversation with NTSB investigator Sean Payne

to discuss the NTSB's 2021 Most Wanted list, and their call for Crash Protector

Recorders to be installed in all passenger carrying commercial aircraft. Hello and welcome to episode 111 of Avtoc I am Ian Petchen here as always

with Jason Ripippinowitz and Ian I'd ask you how you are as I usually do but I already know because I got on an airplane and I went to see you in person.

Who's counting but?

Huge if it's true.

Huge, but it is true.

413 days without stepping foot on an aircraft is probably the longest

span of not flying in my life, including from birth, I think, more than likely. I don't ever wish to repeat that again, but we did it. We got me on a plane and I got to Chicago and we had a hot dog and we had a few drinks and I went home and it was great.

And with minimal kind of headache, really.

And so everything kind of worked.

Yeah, I mean, that's the magic of...

There was a tiny headache, but...

I'll mention the tiny headache.

Yeah, I mean, it's typical Saturday flying, which I guess kind of every day these days is kind of like

Saturday flying, there's rarely ever in-air congestion these days since the flight schedule since still paired back quite a bit.

But I flew American out of LaGuardia, the old concourse, of course.

Gotta keep it the way everything has been before the pandemic and then flew to O'Hare.

We pushed back early, we took off early, we landed early, we got right off the runway at O'Hare,

straight to the gate, which almost never happens.

It's not like we landed in Milwaukee like usual.

And then 35 minutes early to the gate, and the jet bridge is broken.

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