Dave & Chuck the Freak talk about a Southwest Airlines pilot who passed out mid-flight and the off-duty pilot, who happened to be a passenger on the plane, that stepped-in to fly.
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00:00an off-duty pilot traveling as a passenger had to step in and provide assistance after
00:13an airline captain suffered a mid-air medical emergency southwest airlines flight 6013 was
00:20leaving las vegas en route to columbus ohio yesterday when it had to return to vegas two
00:26hours after takeoff when one of the pilots passed out mid-flight a pilot from a different airline
00:36just happened to be on that flight traveling as a passenger and stepped in while the other southwest
00:47pilot took control of the aircraft oh that sucks because to me if if we had a backup pilot can't
00:53we just go to where we're going right let's just keep going like it's okay and i mean you only don't
01:00have that much time left on your flight right i think you just keep going and i mean obviously
01:04they didn't care about getting them on the ground as fast as possible do they have verification like
01:09this guy's like i'm a pilot yeah do they i know how to carry something with them because i always
01:15can we check your a lot of times i'll fly in a pilot outfit just in case just in case it's like that
01:23leonardo dicaprio movie crazy thing to not be a pilot though i'm just saying there's like some crazy
01:29people i'll take over yeah there are some crazy you have to make sure yeah okay sir you're a pilot
01:34you say i did i don't know what i i was lying i was lying completely i i'm drunk i'm so drunk
01:43okay i was joking sir if you take over the tower communications i don't know how to just
01:49communicate with the tower let them know is it do you talk into this thing i'm not really a pilot
01:53nice oh wow uh 9 or 613 9 or 613 come in hello hello tower hello yes uh you're on approach what
02:01are your coordinates oh coordinates yes yeah we're up in the sky uh which which runway would you like
02:08to land on 10 9 or 4 9 or everyone's got the least amount of planes on it i suppose okay can you see
02:15on your approach what do you see oh just uh looks like a bunch of clouds they got a pilot here uh he's
02:21he's all passed out i was joking around i told him i'm a pilot and uh see you can hear that guy
02:29he's uh the one pilots he's he's passed right out so i don't know if he's been drinking too but
02:37uh what's your 20 what's your current 20 i don't know what that means i have uh i have a 20 bill on me
02:43if that's what current 20 counts yeah i have three 20s i have a solid 60 bucks i don't know uh
02:50uh i don't know what what else to say about uh the coordinates but yeah we are up here luckily
02:56this guy's a real pilot but i just wanted to kind of i was joking around uh it took it too far i suppose
03:03well uh you're in there now you're still gonna have to help land this plane oh god all right well i
03:08guess that uh oh all right i'm gonna i'm gonna oh god oh oh see i just did something i just did
03:17something i did something hell i'm pressing buttons pressing all kinds of buttons all right
03:26do you think they'll bring drinks in here i don't think so please return to your seat
03:30all right please return to your seat damn it
03:35a good point lease hopefully they did i'm sure they did can you imagine being like a spirit pilot
03:40on a southwest flight this happens and they're like oh no spirit no oh yeah no i think it's
03:45great that these people were on the flight and they were like yeah i still have faith in southwest
03:50after that christmas debacle i'm flying from when they canceled 27 000 flights but i'm still i'm
03:57doing it i'm supporting this company what why the pilot passed out
04:04sorry we're southwest
04:09we're trying to figure stuff out um i just wonder if there's other emergency situations where somebody
04:14gets to say like you know how they got like those phrases like it's all right i'm a doctor it's all
04:19right i'm a policeman it's all right like i wonder if they've had like a situation where it's like
04:23there's like the toilet's overflowing we don't know what to do somebody's like it's all right i'm a
04:27plumber oh thank god i feel like i feel like plumbers are like don't tell him i'm a plumber
04:32oh