AvTalk Episode 197: The problem with the ET302 final report
AvTalk - Aviation Podcast
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4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
On our first episode of 2023, we see how Southwest has recovered from its meltdown; investigators issue their final report on ET302, but the NTSB and BEA have more to add; and airspace in the Philippines is recovered after a power outage closed the entire Manila FIR to flights. Southwest’s recovery Southwest Airlines’ operations returned […]
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| 0:17.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 197 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchenic here in the New Year, as always with... Jason Urbanowitz. |
| 0:18.6 | Happy New Year to everyone, especially you, Ian, hopefully you got some well-deserved downtime. |
| 0:24.1 | Sure, I think like 12 hours. |
| 0:27.9 | That's higher than a coverage for you, so I'll take that. |
| 0:31.4 | That's true. |
| 0:32.4 | That's true. Yeah, yeah no it was an odd break the kids were |
| 0:36.4 | sick for a bit and lots of shuttling back and forth to the in-laws for variety of things but we made it work and we had a nice |
| 0:46.3 | holidays, a very Merry Christmas and a happy new year. |
| 0:49.7 | How was your time away? |
| 0:50.7 | Good without any of the kids or really illness, so you know, already doing better than you, but I don't |
| 0:56.8 | think either of us had any air travel in the past few weeks, so I'll chalk that up as a win. |
| 1:01.8 | No, no. |
| 1:02.7 | I did not. |
| 1:03.6 | And if I had, I probably would have canceled it |
| 1:07.1 | unless it was life or death. |
| 1:09.7 | Because as we talked about on our special episode that we did a few weeks ago now. |
| 1:16.0 | That was not the time to be traveling. |
| 1:18.0 | We focused on Southwest because of their complete and total operational meltdown. |
| 1:23.7 | But, you know, throughout the system as far as, you know, airlines, |
| 1:28.0 | generally speaking, as well as dealing with all types of weather, inclement weather, things like that. |
| 1:35.2 | It just wasn't a great time to be flying, though certainly Southwest was the outlier |
| 1:39.6 | and just how terrible things were. |
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