Heavy Mayday

Beasley Digital

Dave & Chuck the Freak talk about a plane that suffered engine failure and how the passengers must have been worried. Then some pilots call-in to say it really isn't even a big deal.

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00:00you would not have wanted to be on this flight this crazy united airline flight forced to return

00:08to denver international airport after it suffered an engine failure shortly after takeoff sending

00:14aircraft debris raining down on soccer fields homes and yards this was not i don't know if you

00:20saw any of the footage of this but here's the story of what happened now from abc7 let's take

00:25a listen in to their report that really loud explosion which startled a lot of people and then

00:29they just started seeing basically what they thought was a plane falling from the sky

00:33passenger barbara underwood was seated with her husband near the wing when she says she saw the

00:40engine shaking all of a sudden there was just a big boom and the ring around the engine flew off

00:46the pilot calling in a mayday mayday mayday united 328 heavy mayday mayday aircraft just experienced

00:54engine failure need to turn immediately witnesses reported hearing a loud boom and seeing smoke

00:59these images show the engine in flames oh my god do you think when you look out the window you see

01:05that and you think why am i flying why did i decide to fly why didn't i just stay home yeah i could have

01:11just stayed home why am i going to hawaii right now what am i doing barb wanted to see the beach i can't

01:17even go we can't even go we can't even do anything we can do we want to see the beach

01:21well look at it thanks barb hey there's a little deal on flights right now

01:27yeah barb look at us we're gonna explode now you're happy

01:32you've got your hawaiian shirt on

01:36i'm wearing a stupid shirt barb and that's what i'm gonna be found in pieces

01:41are you happy about that

01:44but we gotta take advantage of the pandemic

01:48we gotta take advantage of the pandemic

01:51turn that music off barb

01:55this is not fun you understand look at that we're staring down the eyes of the devil right now barb

02:02because you wanted a little break you wanted a little break barb

02:06that engine is on fire guys give me the ukulele

02:11he smashes the ukulele

02:14thanks a lot barb

02:18now the footage of it on fire the engine on fire you would just assume you're not going to make it down right

02:25you would just assume you're not going to make it down

02:28we're as good as toast barb

02:30here's i guess my question is is there that much flames on the inside of an airplane engine

02:36that you just never see

02:38i think no that caught fire there's no flames

02:40that caught fire

02:42i think there i think there is flames

02:44i thought there would be flames

02:45i think there is flames

02:46okay well we have an airline pilot here

02:48okay perfect

02:49andrew you're an airline pilot

02:50yes

02:52okay first of all you wanted to clarify the heavy mayday

02:55yeah so they call mayday for a ton of different reasons

02:59one of them being obviously mechanical failure which this one obviously was

03:03but um most of the time at least in most of the time in my field if i have ever called it

03:08it was for passenger health

03:10we assume when they said heavy mayday means it was like it was a catastrophic failure

03:14but heavy mayday refers to the weight of the plane right

03:17yes yeah yeah it's anything over like a it's a gross weight that they consider it to be a heavy aircraft

03:24right so that's what the heavy mayday is all about

03:27oh yep

03:28okay

03:28yeah

03:30we're about to die

03:31well

03:31yeah

03:32i can hear the pilot saying me

03:35i don't know why this is relaxing

03:38we couldn't have just sat down and watched some tube

03:41uh nate is another pilot that's joining us here hey nate

03:48hey how's it going penis

03:50penis are you impressed that they are all okay after seeing what happened or are you

03:54that's what's the way it should have went no that's how it's supposed to go they train you

03:59for all of that my uh my call was to clarify that last pilot's comment um heavy it wasn't

04:07he wasn't saying heavy mayday he was saying his plane was heavy so

04:11different airplanes said you know yeah

04:15heavy and mayday were completely separate

04:18right so each one is a its own command

04:21yeah we got heavy and we got a mayday so as a trap

04:24as the

04:25yeah the air

04:26air traffic controller

04:27big ass plane mayday

04:28big ass plane mayday

04:29yeah

04:29knows i have to clear a heavy runway

04:32yes

04:32make sure

04:33no no

04:34he's saying he's saying basically i don't remember even i didn't even read the article because these are

04:39they're blown out by the media you know with the engine failures

04:42oh yeah

04:42it's just you know we do we do it at the sim all the time you know it's just

04:48you pilots

04:49people freak out

04:49yeah me too

04:50i'm glad you have the sim

04:52i want him to feel like this

04:53me too

04:54me too

04:55but as a passenger

04:56i landed it right in the hudson one time

04:59as a passenger you don't want to see that

05:02right

05:02all right ma'am thanks for calling in

05:05uh

05:06hey everybody

05:08hey it's a pilot bar

05:10oh

05:10just wanted to give your show a call

05:13and uh clarify a couple things

05:18yeah sure what do you what do you want to sit

05:19about the last uh a couple pilots

05:23yeah sure it's been a couple that called in

05:25who just called

05:26in uh my uh 12,000 uh hours of flight

05:36yeah

05:36i've uh had to call mayday

05:41uh-huh

05:4214 times

05:43oh 14 times

05:4414 times

05:45one time

05:45and y'all have to speak like that too

05:47the uh whole tail fell off

05:49yeah

05:49oh the tail

05:50yeah

05:51that's no good

05:52it was gone

05:52oh okay

05:54but

05:54and you called a mayday

05:55heavy mayday

05:57heavy mayday

05:57because you were flying a big plane

05:59yeah a giant plane

06:00no big deal

06:01not a big deal

06:02not a big deal at all

06:03landed it on its belly

06:05yeah

06:05in a cornfield

06:06oh goodness

06:07risky

06:08uh

06:0835 people died

06:10yeah

06:10oh

06:11there were some deaths

06:12there were some deaths

06:13you're alive

06:14well they fell off in the tail

06:15oh they flew right over the back

06:16they were sucked out of the tail

06:18yeah

06:18well not everybody was ready

06:20oh sure they weren't

06:21but uh

06:22not a big deal

06:24okay

06:24not a big deal

06:25thank you

06:25flew later that day

06:26the media just blew it out of place

06:28yeah they're always

06:28uh

06:29it's the media

06:31yeah

06:31the media

06:32damn media

06:33made us

06:33they see fire

06:34and uh

06:35think it's a big deal

06:36it's not

06:39okay

06:40appreciate the update

06:41working uh

06:42as intended

06:43yep

06:44see you later

06:45bye

06:45okay

06:46there we go

06:47stereotypical pilot there

06:48calling in

06:49to the show

06:50yeah

06:50not a big deal

06:51get it

06:52inch and pieces

06:54out of here

06:54yeah

06:54and

06:55oh

06:56oh

06:56yeah

06:57yeah

06:58yeah

06:59awesome

06:59yeah

07:00yeah

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