a herd of cattle. people want to be talked to. kurt delivers his announcements with a humorous twist meant to entertain passengers. oxygen will flow at a rate of $2 for the first minute and then 99 cents for each additional minute. if you re traveling with more than one child, now is a good time to pick your favorite. he is definitely trying to make you laugh, but this flight attendant does take his job seriously. we re trained to be firefighters, we re trained to do cpr, we re trained to use the defibrillator. people don t realize that. but we re really there for your safety. kurt works for ata airlines, and his most popular route is phoenix to hawaii. long five-, six-hour flights. videotaping his announcements proves to be a fun distraction. someone is in the lavatory. this is the lavatory police. come out with your pants up. kurt s antics enliven the flight for the whole crew. their names are barbara, donna, and julie. and my name is kurt, and i am the man. when he
electricity jumping from one of these wires would release an enormous amount of energy and could ignite a fire. investigat investigators do, in fact, find evidence of arcing on the left and right lavatory feeder wires, that come out through holes in the floorboards. the arc starts a fire that ignites the lavatory walls, consuming vital electric systems, making it almost impossle for captain cameron to control the aircraft. became suddenly very hard to fly. it was nose heavy because the stabilizer trim had failed. his arms would have been very, very,ç very tired by the time he got on the ground. he had expended a lot of physical energy just to keep control of the airplane. he did a really good job. he s a seriously good aviator. air canada says the plane met all safety standards. the question now is whether those standards should be made tougher.
investigators immediately suspect an arcing event. the electricity that is flowing through a wire as, over time, insulation can chaffe, crack. and these cracks allow the electricity to not flow down the wire path as it s supposed to, but to jump to a part of the frame of the airplane or to another wire that might be exposed. the lavatory motor is small but carries a lot of power. weight on an airplane is something you try to keep to an absolute minimum. one of the ways that we do that in aircraft is to utilize very small, but very powerful electric motors so that a very small motor can get three boosts of electricity, as it winds around. the motor inside the lavatory is much stronger than a household current.
it was out. you are allowed one reset so i pushed it, but it didn t move. so, i didn t consider that a reset. the captain was at the controls that day. like the old days. for the first time in decades, he is back in the cockpit of a dc-9 at the space museum in ottawa. the breakers are connected to the lavatory in the back of the plane. once they pop out, they cut the flow of electricity to the lavatory motor. the crew responded to that appropriately. there was a problem there, and they left the circuit breakers then extended or popped so that it would deprive power to that component, eliminating any ç potential future problem. unfortunately, flight 797 s problems are just beginning. i think it was about an hour and a half into the flight that there was some commotion in the back of the plane. i remember seeing one of the flight attendants take a fire extinguisher to the back.
state and federal charges are brought against valujet s maintenance contractor sabretech. sabretech ultimately pleads no contest to one state charge of mishandling hazardous waste. the company also faces 24 federal charge, but it convicted of only one. failing to train employees in hazardous materials handling. before the cases are finished, sabretech goes out of business. valujet is temporarily grounded by the faa but goes on to merge with airtran airways, and is later acquired by southwest. when you fly, there are so many people that affect your airplane, your safety. coming up, a passenger smells smoke coming from a lavatory. within minutes the pilot has to fight to control the airplane on its way to the ground. so you re no marathon man. but thanks to the htc one x from at&t, with its built in beats audio, every note sounds amazingly clear.