Pilot Caught On Hot Mic, Goes On Shocking Rant

Who’s full of hate now Andre? Without red states you would have empty dinner plates and no natural resources (I am sorry your ilk is fine with making things with your tech in China which pollutes and abuses human rights.). Also most of the US military is from red states and politically more conservative.

You keep “whipping the butts of red states” and the red states will provide food, protection, and resources to your blue state utopias.

ALL tech is blue state? Untrue. Man sounds like you need to be an airline pilot so you can get a stuck mike yourself. Hahah

Interesting hive mind analysis. Thanks. Because several people above have asked...

From a Wikipedia article: “Rolling coal is the practice of modifying a diesel engine to increase the amount of fuel entering the engine in order to emit large amounts of black or grey sooty exhaust fumes into the air. Rolling coal is sometimes used as a form of anti-environmentalism.”

Coal Rollers generally have some mechanism to switch smoke generation on and off, and often like to harass more fuel efficient vehicles (including bicycles) by cutting in front of them and generating enough smoke to obscure the drivers vision and pollute their air.

The first part of the audio isn't "1043". He said "21.3 is ready to go" which is what the Norcal departure frequency is (121.3). SOP is to enter the next frequency you need into the standby part of the radio to easily switch over after departure. I believe the pilots usually enter in the freq's into the box before pushback at the gate, and I think doing it while line'd up and waiting would be a little late to do it which leans me away from the hot mic being WN531 and perhaps someone who hasn't pushed back yet - although if they hadn't pushed they wouldn't be on the Tower Freq. Will be interesting to see what the FAA finds if they make anything public.

A couple corrections to the translated audio from the article:

The first words are the (presumably) captain of southwest flight 531 incorrectly reading back the departure frequency as 124.3, later prompting the tower to correct him to 124.0.

He says “there’s probly like eight guns out here, that’s it” implying that there should be more guns out here for some reason.

He also says they’re “probly driving around in f-ing Hyundai’s, f-ing L-L-L-L-L-Lowered sh*t that goes slow af.” As others have pointed out, this is straight up anti-Asian rhetoric.

Yes, rolling coal makes him a real man.

As someone else pointed out, the (presumably) first officer takes the next two radio calls, but captain coal-roller takes the last sign-off. It is absolutely southwest 531.

Alan: "I have a friend who lives in San Jose and tells me that many refer to it as Man Jose given the large number of males, predominantly Indian, who work in the Silicon Valley. He happens to be Indian as well. For many young men, that could make it a very boring place to live, especially if you are looking to get married."

San Jose itself is actually quite diverse. Census estimates are 49.5% women. The largest ethnic group is actual Hispanics and only about 40% of the population have college degrees, although that's going up as people are price out of housing and leave. And most people don't work in the tech sector although that's a source of some of the higher income earners. And it can get really weird with some older neighborhoods with a lot of teardowns. You'll see neighborhoods with mostly small ranch homes, then with a few large two-story homes. As for Indians, that's about 5% of the population. But having worked in the tech industry, it's probably around a 3:1 ratio of Indian males to females. One coworker told me that most likely he would have his parents arrange a marriage for him. However, for Indian males I think part of it would the difficulty in finding someone who might also appeal to the family. India is a large place and there are still concerns about the region someone comes from and to some degree caste (inter-caste marriage is still rare).

There's a different dynamic there with the largest Asian group - of Vietnamese-Americans. Entire families have been there since the 70s, so it's different than Indian mostly single men who came to the United States for work.

Even though they may be isolated in the cockpit of an aircraft, pilots are working in the service sector where *all* paying customers matter. IMO, someone with such extreme distain for anyone who doesn't share their political beliefs (left or right) should not be working in a position where they're responsible for other people's lives. Airlines should screen for this, and people with such beliefs should be self aware enough to limit themselves to transporting either freight (UPS/FedEx) or working as a private pilot for someone who shares their ideology.

Put yourself in the position of an executive of a leading passenger airline. Would you want someone like this in your employ? Not on your life.

@truthy

Nope, voted D here..... but I still stand by my statement. Stop assuming things about people with points of view you don’t agree because that’s a big part of what is wrong with the world these days. In short what the pilot did was unprofessional and he will no doubt be pursued by the FAA and his company as he should. Many viewers on here get turned off by politically charged articles on this website because frankly politics the past few years has been exhausting and people come here for a diversion, and it’s feedback Lucky should appreciate regardless of if he decides to continue posting articles like this! In simple terms... be nice and decent to each other on here!

Despite non-stop negative media about how angry US white males are, the crime rates for that subgroup in the US are down over 50% from 30 years ago and basically at record lows. The issue is largely one driven by a media focused agenda and any time there is any violence it has non-stop news coverage for days, if not weeks.

That said, the polite rant was kind of funny to me as it is obviously deluded, and yes its obviously he watches a LOT of fox news. I don't know what Hyundais have to do with anything, though. Plenty of those all over red states in the US.

Its amazing that most people don't realize that social strife is often intentionally manufactured by the rich, elite and powerful. Who just happen to own the media, including those right-wing and left-wing wacko sites. Why? Because as long as the peasants are fighting themselves over things like race, abortion, religion, then they aren't fighting the elites. Tale as old as time.

Once in a while they will throw us a bone by allowing us to redeem our hard earned miles and points for a fancy seat, but then ensure that legally the airlines and hotels can do whatever they want and contracts and fairness have no meaning unless it helps the corporations.

Unfortunately, a diet of right wing propaganda creates brain worms like this. Presumably, whatever AM talk show he was listening to on the way to the airport had some segment about Hyundais. We know for a fact this perception of SJ is something he heard, and didnt see, because everyone knows Silicon Valley is mostly Teslas and Priuses.

I have a family member, who is also a pilot at a major US airline, who also went off the deep end like this. They used to be normal, now everything is raging politics. Sadly, they dont seem to understand that the "liberal fucks" are the ones ensuring they have a job. Theres not much air traffic between Wyoming and Alabama.