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RUSH: All right, now, I wasn\u2019t gonna get into this until later, but we got the phone call from the former pilot of the Boeing 777<\/a>, Luke, who called us about a half hour ago. We had a great conversation with him about all of the just convoluted theories that are out there. And he said, “Yeah, you\u2019re probably right. Occam\u2019s razor: ‘The simplest explanation is what is going to end up being the explanation.'” My point is that it\u2019s gotten so absurd… Well, let\u2019s just play the audio, \u2019cause they talked about this on Fox this morning. <\/p>\n

Martha MacCallum previewed it, and then Bill Hemmer had Howie Kurtz on to talk about this, and here\u2019s what they played to set up that segment<\/a>…<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH ARCHIVE: It\u2019s getting absurd now, is the point. All the conspiracy theories: “You know, that thing has been hijacked.” “You take the seats out of that thing and you can turn it into a giant nuclear bomb.” … This has just created this primordial soup atmosphere for conspiracy theories to just go through the roof, and it\u2019s now so far gone that the simple explanation is what\u2019s gonna end up being the truth here, but nobody\u2019s gonna accept it because they\u2019re so far gone now with potential theories that it\u2019s gonna be difficult. People are not gonna believe the truth once it\u2019s known.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And I really think that\u2019s gonna be the case, \u2019cause — and this is just one example — if I saw this once over the weekend, I saw this 10 times. “Well, yeah. You take that plane up to 45,000 feet and the passengers die. It depressurizes the cabin and they all die!” I said, “No, it doesn\u2019t. The plane can fly at 45,000 feet. What the hell?” These were supposed pilots saying this! The flight crew would have to depressurize the cabin. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s another thing about this. I saw some poor pilot trying to explain this today in his lingo, and the info person, the anchor he was talking to didn\u2019t understand his lingo. And he was talking about the air pressure inside your average airliner flying at altitude (35,000 or 37,000 feet), and he said, “You set the altitude inside at about 8,000 feet between Vail and Aspen,” and this anchor had no idea what this guy was talking about. <\/p>\n

“What do you mean, you set the altitude?” The amount of air pressure in a pressurized cabin is what it is if you\u2019re standing outside in Vail or Aspen, at about 8,000 feet. They do not pressurize for sea level. That would be cost prohibitive and there\u2019d be other problems with it. And this is why some people do tend to fall asleep on airplanes, because there is less oxygen. <\/p>\n

A really good pressurization system can pressurize at 5,000 feet. If you\u2019re on an airplane… Well, EIB One pressurizes at 5,000 feet. It changes the air 12 times a minute, which is why you can smoke a cigar on there and nobody knows. Well, they know, but they really have to think about it. There\u2019s no smoke, and it\u2019s not bothering \u2019em. You couldn\u2019t do that on a commercial airliner for a whole host of reasons. <\/p>\n

But they don\u2019t pressurize to 5,000 feet. What the guy was talking about was that they pressurize it at 8,000. But that\u2019s not how he said it. He said it in pilot lingo. I forget the terminology he used, but this poor anchor had no clue what he was talking about. And then when he threw in, “Oh, yeah. It\u2019s about same thing as Aspen, halfway between Aspen and Vail,” that just totally threw the anchor.<\/p>\n

So, if you\u2019re pressurized — and you have to be. Otherwise, you get to 12,000 feet anywhere, and that\u2019s where you start to get wobbly and losing consciousness, and 15,000 feet is it. That\u2019s why people that climb Mount Everest have to wear gas. They have to wear air tanks. There\u2019s no air to breathe up there at 15,000 feet, and some people are going to start losing consciousness. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s why you have to pressurize. If you\u2019re gonna fly at 37,000 feet, you\u2019ve got to pressurize. Now, my only point was this airplane — and I asked him — is certified for 43,000 feet. That means they can safely go to 43,000 with pressurization at 8,000 feet, and it\u2019s not gonna fall apart. It\u2019s not gonna implode, not gonna explode. Different aircraft are rated for different safe altitudes. Like EIB One can do 51,000 feet. It\u2019s a G550. <\/p>\n

A G450 can do 45. Now, a G450 can actually get to 51,000, but it\u2019s not allowed by the FAA to do it. It\u2019s not legal, so you gotta stay within regs. There\u2019s a different altitude for every qualification or category of airplane. Most of them are the same. A heavy airliner can\u2019t get any higher than 37,000 feet normally because of full load, passengers. It\u2019s heavy. It takes a lot of power to get up there, and you can\u2019t do it \u2019til you burn off some fuel. <\/p>\n

But they routinely… A commercial airliner is not gonna go higher than 37 anyway, and that\u2019s because of the way the corridors in the sky are drawn. One of the great things about corporate is, you go 51,000 feet, and there\u2019s nobody up there. So you can get vectors straight to where you\u2019re going, rather than these waypoints you\u2019re hearing about, which are checkpoints in the sky.<\/p>\n

You hit that one and you get another one. It may require a little turn left or a little turn right, and that\u2019s when you hear a guy, a pilot talking about getting “a good squawk.” A good squawk means he\u2019s been given a beeline to where he\u2019s going, or a squawk is also a signal output that helps identify the airplane. It can mean a couple things. But there\u2019s no way… My only point is there\u2019s no way that the 777 is gonna kill people flying at 45,000 feet. <\/p>\n

It can do it easily. <\/p>\n

Now, it may not be easy to get up there. The thing about that that fascinates me is, how in the world did it get up there that fast? That is the puzzling thing to me. That\u2019s what interests me about it. But the passengers aren\u2019t gonna die — unless the pilots turn off the pressurization. If you depressurize the cabin, then you\u2019ve got a 45,000-foot altitude inside the airplane. There\u2019s not enough oxygen, and people go to sleep.<\/p>\n

They eventually will die, but they will die in their sleep. There\u2019s no evidence that that happened, no evidence that the flight crew turned off the pressurization. But just getting to 45,000 feet\u2019s not gonna kill anybody, not in that airplane. But that\u2019s a classic example of the kind of just erroneous stuff that I have been hearing all weekend. So I was glad that Captain Luke called. So they played that part of me on Fox, that bit where I said, “It\u2019s gonna end up being something simple.<\/p>\n

“But by the time we get there, nobody\u2019s gonna believe it \u2019cause they\u2019ve heard all this outlandish stuff. They\u2019d much rather believe an intricate, convoluted conspiracy theory based on the belief there\u2019s some all-powerful wizard making this happen, rather than just the simple laws of nature. So they went and brought Howie Kurtz on, who is their media expert to talk about whether or not I knew what I was talking about. So Bill Hemmer starts off with Kurtz this way…<\/p>\n

HEMMER: “A primordial soup,” says Limbaugh. But you can understand the dilemma, somewhat, can you not? <\/line><\/p>\n

KURTZ: I totally see the dilemma. Everybody on the planet is interested in this saga. The story gets ratings, which is why CNN\u2019s doing it 26 hours a day. And you bring on a parade of commentators and experts and analysts. And inevitably they say, “Well, I think it\u2019s this; I think it\u2019s that,” and you try to reign it in. But you got a lot of airtime to fill. And I think the coverage has seriously veered out of control.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There you go. That\u2019s my total, entire point. Hemmer\u2019s curiosity was piqued, so he kept going with Kurtz.<\/p>\n

HEMMER: Already today, CNN had one of these what we call banners, what you saw on the bottom of your screen. “Plane May Have Disappeared in a New Bermuda Triangle.”<\/p>\n

KURTZ: You know what? The media\u2019s credibility has disappeared into the New Bermuda Triangle.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. And then they started talk about the supernatural. That was Don Lemon, one of their anchors, saying, “Oh, we need to look at the supernatural.” Now, I also said this on yesterday\u2019s program.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: I forget who said it, and I\u2019m not even gonna get the saying right, but it might have been Sir Arthur Conan Doyle writing as Sherlock Holmes who said something like, once you have ruled out everything and the most improbable, the simplest explanation for any mystery is probably the case. The problem with trying to figure what happened with this airliner is that it\u2019s impossible to conceive of the simplest explanation because now we\u2019re at 10 days. Ten days that people have been watching television. Ten days of nameless, faceless experts all over every network, none of \u2019em know anything, all advancing theories.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, CNN had to swat this down, and they chose to do it with our old buddy Jacob Tapper. Last night on CNN\u2019s The Lead, he spoke with a retired commercial pilot, CNN aviation analyst Jim Tilmon.<\/p>\n

TAPPER: Still no closer to finding the missing jet. And my next guest, a former pilot, says the simplest explanation is actually the least likely.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: See? See? They had to find what I said, without mentioning my name, “the simplest explanation is actually the least likely.” And here\u2019s what the retired pilot said.<\/p>\n

TILMON: I\u2019m not of the feeling that these guys would shy away from difficult, because whatever happened here, number one, I believe that this whole thing was a plan thought through from the beginning to the end. I don\u2019t know the end result yet, I don\u2019t know what the endgame was, but I think there is one. This also was a situation that required great skill and experience to pull off. If these guys did have a good plan, what was their end game? Once they got to a certain point, were they going to just say, “Oh, well, we\u2019re here, can\u2019t think of anything else to do. It\u00c2\u2019s been good on TV, let\u2019s just go. Let\u2019s go fly into the ocean.” I don\u2019t think so.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Man, a good plan. There had to be a plan, and it\u2019s a good plan. These guys did have a good plan, what was the endgame, and it wasn\u2019t to crash in the ocean. So he thinks it\u2019s landed somewhere. ‘Cause they had a good plan. Oh, well, he\u2019s the expert, not I, folks. I\u2019m just a guy on radio. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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