On this episode of Av Talk, we welcome back John Ostrower to the program to discuss the

Q400 incident last week in Seattle. We review some of the other incidents over the past few weeks

and recap fleet updates from various airlines around the world.

Hello and welcome to episode 38 of AvToc. I am Ian Patchnick here as always with

Jason or I binowitz hello Ian. Hello Jason how are you doing? I'm well how are you?

I'm okay. I'm okay. Just okay. You know fighting off a cold that's going around the family. So it's one of those things where recording a podcast is an enjoyable activity when your throat feels like it's being

scratched by a cat. Well, good luck with that. You have a cat though, so just make sure it's not the actual

cat doing that. I promise it is not the actual cat. That's good. Yes, yes.

Now that we've gotten that out of the way, how are you doing? I'm good. I don't have a colds yet, so.

I don't think I can give it to you from 800 miles away through I literally just started sneezing 10 minutes ago.

So thanks. I have imaginary powers I guess. Magic. The world's worst superpower.

It really is.

So this week was...

It was a week.

It was, I don't even...

unusual, it doesn't even begin to describe the week extraordinary in the truest sense of the word and so what we are going to do we've

invited John Ostrower to come on the program and discuss the Horizon Air Q400 incident with us and he'll be here in just a moment

A very very quick recap is that someone stole a Horizon Air Dash 8 Q400 and made an

unauthorized takeoff from Sea Tech Airport in the Seattle area and then it crashed.

And so we're going to ask John to come out and talk a little bit more in detail about what actually

happened and we'll get into a lot more than that and devote most of the program to this.

And then we'll talk about, well, there's a lot of other things going on and

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