Jo Koy Recounts His Flight's Emergency Landing After Electrical Fire on Plane

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Jo Koy is recalling the moment his international flight needed to make an emergency landing after an electrical fire filled the cabin with smoke ... and he says his son helped his family stay calm with a perfectly timed joke.

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00:00all the fans are happy looking your back on the soil yeah it feels good to have boots on the

00:07ground it's crazy because you don't really realize like what what the situation is until

00:12like it's done and over yeah and then you start thinking about holy shit the plane was on fire

00:18you know I mean like yeah yeah how how did that like all transpired was it just started off it

00:23was the the whole cat well one I we were all sleeping and then uh and then next you know

00:29you just hear chaos just running and shutting the uh the overhead bins they were you know they

00:36were slamming I was like what's going on why are they slamming them everyone's being so rude

00:40trying to sleep yeah and then I heard a bunch of running right and then that's when I looked

00:45and then that's when I saw the chaos and I you know I heard someone say you know that they don't

00:51have the fire extinguisher and blah blah oh my god and then the then the smoke filled the room and

00:56you guys are all breathing in smoke like that yeah yeah it was it was all smoky and then that's when

01:01I was like uh I had to you know I want to be calm because of the family you know I didn't want to

01:07be like uh panic mode but you know you don't really think of that when it's happening you know and uh

01:12and then uh that's when he said we're gonna have to do an emergency landing into oh my god

01:18Japan can't imagine what that was like you got you had your whole family there with you it was

01:22crazy man the crew the pilots and of course the the flight attendants they went above and beyond

01:28man you know what I mean like sometimes we take for granted like uh you know when they're reading

01:34off the safety things and you kind of like you kind of doze off I don't need to hear this for sure

01:39and you know my sister's on the plane she's a she's a you know retired from that and all of a sudden

01:45it her instincts kicked in and she's like all right make sure you remember where you are from

01:49the exit you know you're you're one row away from the exit to the right so just in case things happen

01:53it's too dark you can't see just count the aisle she was talking all this stuff and I'm like wow

01:58these people are very important yeah you know they got the information that you need so you know

02:03sometimes we take that for granted but not only that but like you start thinking about oh man you

02:07know why did I have that argument with that one person or why haven't I said hi to that person and

02:13you know that's your that do you think that's your advice for people yeah man like stuff like

02:17that makes you really you realize man you're not promised today you're not even promised this next

02:24hour so quit acting like a jerk every minute yeah at any point during that whole time yeah that one

02:32of the funniest guys in the world has a has anything like funny to say my son my son had one

02:42and uh it was funny because they serve this really good soup on uh on philippine airlines it's really

02:49good it's what they're known for legendary it's called arascaldo right the whole cabin is just full

02:54yeah it's just smoke like we got these masks on then they gave us wet towels to put over the mask

02:58wow oh it was bad it was it was bad in there and then um and my son just looked at me goes

03:04is it a bad time to ask for arascaldo dad

03:07hey how do you die i died laughing bro like i was crying but i think that's what life is man if you

03:15can't laugh at and you know crazy situations you know then i don't know man i think god i think god

03:23gives us that you know for that particular moment for that situation so absolutely laughter is king and i

03:29loved it man

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