Hello and welcome to episode 302 of AvTalk.

I am Ian Petchnik, here as always with Jason Rabinowitz.

Ian, welcome to the first regularly scheduled podcast of 2025.

Indeed. And there's a lot. We were going to take last week off and then didn't in the face of two horrific crashes, one with an Azerbaijan Airlines in Kazakhstan and one with a Jesuit Air 737 in South Korea.

This week, we've got some updates on those, some updates on the crash that began 2024 in Japan, as well as a year on from the Alaska Airlines mid-cabin exit door plug blowout.

And also, we've just got some regular news that's funny.

We just have some regular old news.

And just you read it and you go, huh, okay, that was news.

We like that stuff.

Yeah, helpful stuff to know about the industry.

Some of it's annoying, but somewhat amusing. And then towards the end of the show, we'll go,

huh? Exactly. So let's get into it. We have updates on the investigations into the twin crashes that we reported extensively on last week. First of all,

thank you so much to everyone who watched the special video episode that we put together and all

of the kind words that you had to say about the work that went into that. We appreciate that so

very much. Lots of you suggested that that be the new format for the regular show.

Unfortunately, we just don't have the time budget to make that an every week thing,

but rest assured that we do find it a useful and worthwhile endeavor for that specific type of content.

So we will look into when a visual representation

is necessary, we'll be there. We didn't even tell you about the first time we recorded that

episode and the audio vanished. Yeah. Video has some complications to it, but that was the actual

second take two. That particular two. Oh, boy.

Okay.

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