Hello and welcome to episode 243 of Avtoc I am Ian Petchenic and I'm not here as always with Jason

Robinowitz. Jason can't join this week because he is traveling in Japan, not that

I'm jealous at all, but he did send us this brief update on what

he's been up to this week.

Jason?

Riding the rails.

We'll have an abbreviated show this week thanks to the Thanksgiving holiday and a very

happy Thanksgiving to all of our listeners in the US or those not in the US taking the

opportunity to celebrate as well.

We begin with a few updates on stories from last week.

Last week's top story was the horse that escaped its stall aboard an era Atlanta Icelandic

flight from New York to Leish.

At the time of our recording, we didn't know the fate of the horse, but we've learned

more about the incident and unfortunately the horse sustained significant injuries and had to be euthanized.

According to reporting by CNN, the horse was initially disturbed by turbulence experienced by the aircraft shortly after takeoff.

The horse managed to jump about halfway out of its stall and became stuck with its front legs out of the stall and the rest of the horse still in the stall.

During the flight it's impossible to open horse stalls because of the way they are

installed on the aircraft. They're designed to be as compact as possible to keep the horses as safe as possible and to not allow them to move freely too much because of the possibility of things like this happening.

The stalls are meant so that the horses can stick their head out

so that the flight grooms can take care of the horses throughout the flight with water, food, and keeping them comfortable.

In this particular instance, it was the design of the horse stalls, as well as the fact that the horse

managed to jump halfway out of the stall that led to the distress that the

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