Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Don't listen to this at the airport...

Episode Date: March 13, 2024

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Joining me is Megan and producer Taylor this morning. Producer Taylor, you've got something for us. I do. I feel like this is everybody's worst nightmare. All right. So two pilots have fallen asleep for 28 minutes whilst flying the plane. So the pilot was first to fall asleep, which is fine. He's entitled to. But when that happens, you assume that your co-pilot, I guess,

is going to take the lead, which he did, and then Nick Minnit falls asleep because he's just had twins and hasn't had a good night's sleep in a while. I've wondered, first of all, that if pilots come back from paternity leave, you know, if they've got a newborn baby. Yeah. Because they do alcohol and drug tests, but what about just general tiredness? It's wild, eh?

They meant to tag team in straight through the night or something. Yeah, but he was on. He was on. The pilot had tagged out, so the co-pilot was on, but he's like... They're both very young, 28 years old and 32 years old, and so this is like the worst part. When the co-pilot woke up and realised what had happened,

they were off track. They were on the wrong flight path she's like she could have gone horribly wrong yeah it could have been like mh370 or something mh mh was it not on like autopilot what's happened maybe autopilot still needs a human to kind of steer the ship oh my god yeah or if anything if there'd been like a bird strike or like anything had gone wrong, surely they need one person to have eyes on at all times. You imagine it's quite monotonous,

particularly at night. Yeah. Like, you know, you drive along roads at night and it can be pretty boring, you know, in a car, but let alone in the sky where you're not seeing anything really,

probably some clouds and that's it. But no cloud, you know, like at night time. And if your mate falls asleep, you're just like, oh, oh. Cool.

Are you allowed to put Netflix on your phone or something? They need to do something. Crank up some tunes. Because if this happens again, like, not cool. Now, you worked in the air industry for many years. As a chef, yes. It runs in the family. It does, actually. There was actually a point in time where, I kid you not,

me and my brother, mum and dad all worked for the same airline. Wow. What did you do for the airline um me i was checking so like the person checking you into a story about her mom oh this is a great story can you tell me with my popcorn my mom poor thing she actually had to go on stress leave for what happened oh my god she was checking in this is back before like when things were much more rogue in the airlines. She was checking in a first-time flyer, right, by herself. Never been on a plane before. And so, unbeknown to my mom, I hope that's a word, this passenger.

Is it unbeknown? Yeah. Whatever. We know what you mean. So, this passenger had just flown from South Korea to Sydney and stop over in Sydney, then on to the next leg to Melbourne, right? Yeah. And, you know, there's international transfers counter.

So my mum used to do people getting – So she's in the airport not going throughout to get – Yeah, no, she's just getting – it should be a seamless transition. Just transferring. They just give her the boarding pass, check her in and then whatever. So this girl has given my mom this passenger and said, hey, can you just escort her to the gate? She can't speak English.

She's already been checked in. We just need to send her. She's just come from South Korea. My mom, I don't know where the communication got lost, but my mom heard she's going back to South Korea So my mum then Puts her on the flight Back to South Korea

The lady who comes to Australia Goes back on a flight straight back And apparently So this lady, this poor thing is on the flight And could you just imagine her seeing She's back on a nine hour flight To where she just came from She thinks she's back on a nine-hour flight. She's thinking she's going to Melbourne or something. She thinks she's on her way to Melbourne to see her family.

Okay, that's a wee flight. They'll fly up and go, well, this is taking a while. And then so the only way the airline really found out about this is her family in Melbourne called and said, we had a notification saying that she had landed. She's meant to be on the Melbourne flight. We've gone to pick her up. She's nowhere to be seen.

Where is she? And the airline's going, hang on. Like she was accompanied by Sue. Sue put her on the flight. Sue's the safer hand, Sue. They've gone and seen where all this has gone wrong. And they found her back in South Korea. What was Australia like?

That was a wild time. It's been a horrible story. Straight back on the plane. Horrible story. Straight out of the Home Alone playbook, isn't it? It's kind of like. Oh, my God. Apparently the passenger was beside herself.

Oh, no. And so my mum was, like, stuffed there. So my mum went on stress leave for three weeks. Oh, you poor mum. That's an innocent mistake. Yeah. And that was back when, like, in the airport. Now it's very, like, high security.

But back in the day my mum said, like, it was a small net of people that worked for the airline. So if they saw you escorting a passenger, they wouldn't even check the, like it's, yeah, go on, put her on. I wouldn't check the boarding pass. You know, like things like that. They just trust. They trust that Sue's got it sorted. Yeah, my mom's already checked the passport, the boarding pass. Like it's all, it's all good.

Oh my God. But Sue was not all good. She had like the runs. Because she was so. And then I checked someone on with a gun. Like, that was the thing. I did that. But did you know they had a gun?

No. This is when, like, I was at the checking counter and I wasn't very good at my job. Like, you know how we get up early? Yeah. This is a sleeping compared to the times I had to wake up. So the first flight was 6am, so I'd have to be at domestic by 4am. I lived in Cronulla, so I was like, I'm at 2.30.

Jeez. Because you have to put the fucking red lipstick on. Yeah, yeah. And the stockings and all that crap. It was like a horrible time in my life and I just hated it. I can't imagine you in like any kind of service. No, and you having to act nice. Yeah.

And like I was the person at the counter that, you know, please don't get her, please don't get her, you know, we don't want to get her. Yeah. Sacked in your comment. And this guy came up and I was like, hi, and I barely look up. I'm just like, yep, we'll fly. Yep, cool.

Bye. Bye. Great. And then he come up. I'm just like, yep, we'll fly. Yep, cool. Bye. Bye. Great. And then he come like I'm shooting away. And then half an hour later, I see him hovering around my desk. And I'm with another passenger. I look up. I was like, yeah, what?

Like, what's wrong? Good cousin, seriously. Weird lunch deck looking good, though. Exactly. They were like, he was like, oh, they won't let me go through security. And I was like Well why And he's like Oh because I've got this

And he holds up a freaking gun In his thing And I was like Oh well you didn't mention You had a gun on you Wow Of course they're not Going to let you through

I know Where do you go to What happens Apparently there was Some security questions I had to ask Whatever You kind of feel like

You don't have to ask Do you have a gun on you No You feel like that would be Something that people Would declare I think it's like Maybe if I had asked The flammable question It would have maybe You kind of feel like you don't have to ask, do you have a gun on your person? No, you feel like that would be something that people would declare. I think it's like maybe if I had asked the flammable question, it would have maybe sprung a light bulb in his head.

I didn't do that. It's a domestic flight, you'll be fine. So Sue and yourself both don't work in the airline industry, aviation industry? Why? Why not? No one. No one from my family.

Of course Sue. We're all done. There's something quite funny about that lady getting off the plane and then getting straight back on another one. I'm like, oh, yeah. I just want to put Taylor into hospitality, get her to serve some people and just film it. We should actually do that.

Gordon Ramsay. I used to work in hospitality too. Not for you? No. I used to work in – Macca's was my first job. Oh, was it? Yeah, it lasted like three weeks. Wow. Then I went to an in Macca's was my first job Oh was it? Yeah it lasted like three weeks Wow

Then I went to an ice cream shop Yeah That lasted like four years I actually did enjoy that But like god Like ice cream is hard Like it's so Like literally?

Oh yeah Yeah that And then like if the scoop Hasn't been in boiling water For long enough As well A lot of stuff you gotta work through In the job

Just feed it You know what make it sound Particularly hard you've got to work through in the job. Just feed them. You don't make it sound particularly hard, but I haven't worked in the ice cream industry. I know, you can't put the scoop in the hot water. I'd put you in an ice cream shop on a 44 degree day in the middle of Cronulla. I'm sure I wouldn't be very good at it. Or if it was like you're in the perfect spot though.

Yeah. It was a lot. Yeah. Oh, so good. Well, that is today's Wild World Web. You never know where it's going to end up. We do appreciate everyone that listens to it. We'll be back again with another one tomorrow.