Southwest Airlines has confirmed that it's one of its pilots was caught in an embarrassing 'open mic' incident in the skies over California.
A foul-mouthed rant was captured and recorded by an air travel blog. The Southwest pilot's swearing was interspersed with normal pilot-to-air-traffic-control chatter.
The pilot who has not been named publicly, ranted saying "F*** this place" about California liberals, and "weirdos, probably driving around in [expletive] Hyundais" and he refers favorably to to the practice of "rolling coal", slang for taking smog control equipment off diesel trucks to increase the amount of black smoke emitted.
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Online: Captured audio is here (NSFW - Warning)
A representative for Southwest said, “Our corporate Culture is built on a tenet of treating others with concern and dignity and the comments are inconsistent with the professional behavior and overall respect that we require from our Employees. This situation was an isolated incident involving a single Employee and not representative of the nearly 60,000 hardworking, respectful People of Southwest Airlines.”
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The FAA is reporteedly investigating the incident and said that, “FAA regulations prohibit airline pilots from talking about subjects that are unrelated to safely conducting their flight while taxiing and while flying below 10,000 feet altitude.”
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