Welcome to Aviation News Talk. Coming up on today's program, a newsmaker's episode where we interview

people in aviation who are making the news. This week, United Airlines is in the news for the

PR disaster they created on the ground at the Chicago O'Hare Airport when they dragged a passenger

off of a plane to make room for airline employees who needed to get to Louisville, Kentucky to crew of flight the next day.

In the aftermath, Fly Auto, an on-demand air charter service has made an interesting offer to United Airlines.

And today, our guest is Rod Rakek, founder of Fly Auto.

All this and more, and the news starts now.

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I'm Max Truska.

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So, Rod, for the two people who are in the world who haven't heard about the United Incident,

tell us a little bit about what happened in Chicago on Sunday.

Well, Max, I wasn't there.

So I've been following this in the news like everyone else has.

And really what happened was really a series of unfortunate events.

My friend John Ostrathar from CNN said that you have to look at this like aviation accidents.

The holes in the Swiss cheese all lined up.

And when it ended up happening was a passenger who was boarded onto a flight from Chicago to Louisville,

ended up being dragged off physically and hurt pretty badly in the process from the airplane.

And it's still really sketchy in terms of who knew what, when.

It's pretty obvious that everyone involved was probably doing what they thought was the right thing from the gate agent who after the plane was boarded found that they had four members of the regional airline flying under the United Flag who needed to go to Louisville

and they were going to have to cancel a flight the next day.

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