Airline Pilot Guy - Aviation Podcast · Jeff Nielsen

Your Door to More

·2 hr 15 min·5 clips
A pilot's distraction over an open door leads to a fatal crash, challenging assumptions about aircraft safety.
The episode covers aviation safety incidents, including a fatal Beechcraft crash from an open door, a Lufthansa flight with a pilot seizure, and a DoorDash driver on O'Hare's tarmac. Hosts and guests analyze these events, discuss regulatory differences, and share personal stories like a carrier deck accident and a trip to an Ironman race.

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A loose, conversational aviation-news roundtable that stays grounded in cockpit judgment.

Airline Pilot Guy spends this hour where it usually does best: on aviation news, told from the pilot side of the conversation. The episode moves through another ATC outage affecting Denver, a LaGuardia runway incident, listener feedback, and a plane tale, with the usual…

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You want cockpit-side aviation news from the view from our side of the cockpit door, with a grounded read on the day's incidents.

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