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AvTalk - Aviation Podcast

AvTalk Episode 247: He’s a stowaway!

AvTalk - Aviation Podcast

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4.8911 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of AvTalk, we scratch our heads trying to figure out the story of a stowaway who managed to make it from Copenhagen to Los Angeles aboard an SAS flight. Stopped by a US customs officer, the man had Russian and Israeli identity documents, but no passport. And he could not tell the […]

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0:16.2

Hello and welcome to episode 247 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchenic here as always with Jason Erbenowitz. Hello Ian, how's it going?

0:19.2

Hello Jason, it's going well. It's not been long since we last chatted.

0:23.0

Yes, it has only been five days instead of the usual seven, so even fewer things have happened

0:28.5

than usual, but we've got some things, including one, we've been waiting for a long time to confirm.

0:35.0

Yeah. You sound unsure. Did it not happen? I don't know what we're talking about.

0:40.5

Okay, you'll remember when we get to there. It's the third bullet point. Oh, okay. Oh, yeah, that yes, confer. Okay, fine. I'm totally off my game because it's only Monday. Had this been Wednesday, you would have picked up on that. I would have known

0:53.8

this would have been a much better thing. So we're recording on Monday the 18th of December, not our usual

0:59.7

data record normally record on Wednesdays, but Wednesday would be after the cutoff day for

1:04.3

our editors because they are going on Christmas break.

1:07.6

So we are recording today so that we can get the podcast off to them so that we can have it out for

1:12.3

you this week.

1:14.0

So this week we've got a bunch of very interesting stories, one I think more bizarre

1:19.9

than interesting, but certainly one we're going to follow for as long as we can.

1:24.4

And then next week we will do our standard End O the Year clip show.

1:30.0

So that'll be fun.

1:31.6

And thank you to everyone who has written in over the week with their favorite

1:37.8

episode from throughout the year and suggestions and requests for the new year. The favorite episodes, there's a very clear top three.

1:47.2

So you'll have to stick around for next week to see which episodes you dear listeners have voted into the top three.

1:54.4

I will say that voting is still open.

1:57.2

Email us at podcast at fr24.com.

1:59.6

Let us know what your favorite episode was throughout this year and anything you want to see in the

2:04.5

podcast moving into next year. Jason, my friend, I don't even know where to begin

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