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RUSH: So, “The copilot of the doomed Germanwings jet barricaded himself in the cockpit and ‘intentionally\u2019 sent the plane full speed into a mountain in the French Alps, ignoring the pilot\u2019s frantic pounding on the door and the screams of terror from passengers, a prosecutor said Thursday.” It\u2019s amazing how fast they get prosecutors on the case over there. You know, in Europe, the spokesmen are always the prosecutors, not the cops. I mean, it\u2019s all law enforcement.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s amazing. <\/p>\n

“Copilot Andreas Lubitz\u2019s ‘intention (was) to destroy this plane,\u2019 Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin said, laying out the horrifying conclusions reached by French aviation investigators after listening to the last minutes of Tuesday\u2019s Flight 9525. The Airbus A320 was flying from Barcelona to Dusseldorf when it began to descend from cruising altitude of 38,000 feet after losing radio contact with air traffic controllers. All 150 on board died when the plane slammed into the mountain.”<\/p>\n

The prosecutor “said, ‘The most plausible, the most probably, is that the copilot voluntarily refused to open the door of the cockpit for the captain and pressed the button for the descent.\u2019 He said the copilot\u2019s responses, initially courteous in the first part of the trip, became ‘curt\u2019 when the captain began the mid-flight briefing on the planned landing.” Have you noticed that stretching? They don\u2019t want to call this terrorism. They don\u2019t want to call this terrorism. <\/line><\/p>\n

I guarantee you the people on that plane were terrorized. In fact, it\u2019s being theorized that for… You know, it took eight minutes to descend, and there was not a whole lot of radio contact, and it didn\u2019t seem to be a descent. The theory is the passengers didn\u2019t know \u2019til the last minute what was happening, and that\u2019s when the screams were heard. Here is the prosecutor. This is the segment of the press conference that has set the world on fire just a bit here.<\/p>\n

BRICE ROBIN (via translator): He voluntarily allowed the plane to descend and lose altitude, about 1,000 meters per minute. It\u2019s not normal.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No question it\u2019s not normal, but they don\u2019t want to call it terrorism here yet. Folks, they just don\u2019t know. The copilot, 28-year-old German, has a home there. There\u2019s a picture of him sitting by the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. On Fox & Friends this morning retired Air Force general Thomas McInerney was the guest, and Anna Kooiman said, “He\u2019s 28 years old, a German national.<\/p>\n

“They don\u2019t know his religion or his ideology,” and it took \u2019em a long time to announce the pilots\u2019 names, and they knew these names for a long time. It took them awhile to make that news public. But she asked General McInerney, “What type of background checks do pilots have to go through in that part of the world, and also here in the US? What kind of psychological examinations, things like that, before they\u2019re hired?”<\/p>\n

MCINERNEY: They\u2019re pretty extensive, and the thing is is… But they\u2019re very sensitive on religion, and that\u2019s why — because I focus on radical Islam is why — I migrate to that, because there\u2019s a logic and a rationale that they become suicide bombers. For other people, I would call a violent extremist for whatever his ideology is. You\u2019d have to look into that. But the airlines are pretty extensive on that, and I think we\u2019re gonna find as this peels back and we get the facts, the question is what is the ideology behind the terrorism, and that\u2019s what they\u2019re gonna have to look at very extensively.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They\u2019re not gonna want to tell us. It\u2019s obvious they\u2019re not gonna want to tell us. They\u2019re trying to stretch this out or delay this as long as they can. <\/p>\n

Now, Copilot “Lubitz\u2019 recently deleted Facebook page appeared to show a smiling man in a dark brown jacket posing in front of the Golden Gate Bridge in California,” San Francisco. “The page was wiped sometime in the past two days. Lufthansa said Lubitz joined Germanwings in September 2013, directly out of flight school, and had flown 630 hours. The captain had more than 6,000 hours of flying time and been a Germanwings pilot since May 2014, having previously flown for Lufthansa and Condor.<\/line><\/p>\n

“The circumstances of the crash are likely to raise questions anew about” background checks and this kind of thing. Yeah, they\u2019re actually gonna look into background checks a little bit more extensively here. They\u2019re saying, “Okay, well, maybe the pilot was depressed. Maybe he just wanted to commit suicide. No, folks. You don\u2019t commit suicide and take 150 people with you. I mean, maybe you do. I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t have the suicide mentality or gene or what have you. Anyway, whatever they\u2019re trying to do here to avoid calling it terrorism or what have you, doesn\u2019t change the fact that the people on board that plane were terrorized. Ever wondered why plane crashes so captivate people and the attention span? I mean, here we have 150 people died, and they died all at once, and it\u2019s… I\u2019m not being critical of this. I just examine this sociologically. It\u2019s fascinating to me.<\/p>\n

The number of people who die in the United States on the highways of this country in automobile accidents is roughly on average 50,000 people a year. The number of people who perish in airplane crashes is way, way below that. But even when there is a massive pileup in an automobile accident, and there are a significant number of deaths, it does not occupy the news cycle for hours and days like a plane crash does. I think there\u2019s more to it than just the number of people. Have you ever thought about why this is?<\/p>\n

Why is it that airplane crashes actually are rare compared to other accidents that claim people\u2019s lives? I\u2019ve always said, “If you really want to ban death, if you really want to cut down on the number of deaths, then ban the wheel.” Automobiles are involved in more deaths than smoking cigarettes, playing in the NFL, or any number of things. Yet there\u2019s never even the slightest consideration given to banning the wheel because it\u2019s entirely impractical. Yet so many more people die as the result of wheels being used ever since they\u2019ve been invented. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s just fascinating to me. <\/p>\n

You know what I think part of it is? <\/p>\n

I think part of it is rooted in the fact that even people who claim to not be afraid of flying still think it\u2019s a really unnatural thing to do. And so a plane crash reminds them of how unnatural an act getting in a fuselage or a tube and heading up five miles in the air is. Whereas getting in a car, you\u2019re already on the ground. It\u2019s the old thing. My father owned an airplane, when my brother and I were young. It was a single-engine Cessna 182, and there was, to be honest about it… There was some fear, a little bit fear of flying in certain sectors of the family. <\/p>\n

I remember one time somebody saying to my dad, “Well, what happens if the engine quits and you\u2019re up there?”<\/p>\n

This plane maxed out at 10,000 feet. It had no oxygen. It was a small plane. <\/p>\n

“What happens if you\u2019re up there five or six thousand feet and the engine quits?” <\/p>\n

He said, “The engine doesn\u2019t quit.”<\/p>\n

I said, “Okay, Dad. The engine doesn\u2019t quit. But what if it does?” <\/p>\n

The difference is if the engine quits in the car, you just roll to a stop. You get out and walk the rest of the way or hitchhike or do whatever. But if the engine stops at 5,000 feet or five miles, you\u2019re kind of in trouble. It\u2019s huge. I think it\u2019s rooted in the fact that an airplane crash reminds people that that\u2019s for the birds. Even though the safety factor in terms of traveling — statistically, any way you want to look at it — there\u2019s no comparison in the safest way to travel; it\u2019s flying, hands down. <\/p>\n

But people still come back to, “Yeah, but if you happen to be aboard when there\u2019s an engine malfunction, that\u2019s it, if you\u2019re in the air.” And it\u2019s not the case if you\u2019re in a car. If you\u2019re in an electric car and the battery dies, big whoop. You know, you get a tow to the next electrical outlet and you\u2019re back on your way, or what have you. So I think that\u2019s part of the fascination. There\u2019s probably much, much more to it than that. It\u2019s also, you know, if it bleeds, it leads. It\u2019s that kind of stuff. It\u2019s made to order for television news, and it allows all the experts in all the problems we face to come out.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s terrorism, there\u2019s any number of things that will draw in the Drive-Bys to covering an airplane crash. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no. No. I have never been afraid of flying. I never have. For some reason, I have literally no concern about it. I think one of the reasons why is when my father did own that little airplane, I sat next to him. I flew it now and then. I watched him take it off, land it enough times that back then I thought if he had an emergency when he was flying this around, that I could land it. I was confident I could do that. I\u2019d seen it enough. It was single-engine; it wasn\u2019t that complicated.<\/p>\n

I mean, I\u2019m talking years of sitting next to him watching him land the airplane. Now, a jet, that\u2019s a whole different thing. I don\u2019t have confidence I could land a jet. I don\u2019t think I have confidence I could slow the thing down enough to land. But for some reason I don\u2019t have the fear. I\u2019m not worried about bad weather. There\u2019s no circumstance I worry about. I trust the pilots. If the weather\u2019s bad, they\u2019ll tell me; if we can make it, we\u2019ll go. So I don\u2019t have that fear.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m fortunate I guess and I don\u2019t have any claustrophobia. That\u2019s what bothered John Madden. It\u2019s not that he was afraid of flying. It was that he couldn\u2019t get out of there. He said he was in this narrow tube and once it took off and left the ground he\u2019s in there until somebody else lands it, and that\u2019s what made him nervous. It was mostly a claustrophobia thing. But I just think that even people like me — although I\u2019m gonna exclude myself from this.<\/line><\/p>\n

But people like me who profess to have no fear, the reason why an airplane crash is fascinating, is because everybody thinks that\u2019s what\u2019s gonna happen. How many times, when you watch an airplane take off, are you still fascinated that it actually happens? I am. Especially if it\u2019s a jumbo jet, like a Boeing 747 Heavy or one of these Airbus A-380s. Even though I understand the aerodynamics of it. Intellectually I understand lift or air pressure differential, whatever you want to call it. I understand it.<\/p>\n

It makes perfect sense in the laws of physics. But it still looks impossible. And you still marvel at it every time it happens. On the golf course, when an airplane flies over, everybody stops and looks at the plane, despite how many times have you seen an airplane fly by. And if it\u2019s a military jet doing a flyby, say, at the Super Bowl or a football game and it\u2019s at a thousand or 500 feet and it\u2019s on full afterburner and the noise? I mean, that\u2019s the sound of freedom flying overhead.<\/p>\n

You stand up and you cheer and you thank God for flight, and you thank God you\u2019re an American, like I did once at the Super Bowl at San Diego. I shouted shouting, “How can anybody be a Democrat when that happens?” And there were a couple Democrats from Washington sitting in front of me. It was the Redskins playing the Broncos. They turned around they were started shooting me daggers with their eyes, but I didn\u2019t care. Still, when an airplane goes over, people stop.<\/p>\n

They watch it. Even though you know it makes perfect sense, you still don\u2019t believe it. So one falling out of the sky makes sense. I think the fascination in watching one of these is rooted in giving thanks you\u2019re not on it, because this is what everybody thinks is a very natural thing to happen. That, in other words, a successful airplane flight is cheating the odds, in people\u2019s subconscious. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think this is something that they ponder each and every day in their front lobes, but there has to be something. I could be all wet here, but there has to be a reason why an airplane crash totally dominates the news cycle for days sometimes. Even without the added potential aspect of terrorism, it still is something that captivates people. I could be all wet in my theory. But if I am, there\u2019s still something about it psychologically that draws people to it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Everybody\u2019s still obsessed with the motive of the copilot on that Germanwings plane crash. Can anybody ever really know for sure what his motive was besides he wanted to die, and it\u2019s probably pretty clear he wanted to kill everybody on the plane with him? Isn\u2019t that pretty clear? Okay, so we\u2019re gonna search for motive. That means was he a religious extremist of some kind, and if they can\u2019t find anything he\u2019s written or things like that, it\u2019s one of the things we\u2019re never gonna know but people still obsessed by it. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here is Carl in Wyoming as we get started on the phones today. Great to have you, Carl. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. Thanks for taking my call, man.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Back to your spiel on airplanes. I think with all of the carnage and catastrophe of each one of these passenger airplanes that goes down, each one of us has a survival instinct in us. Somehow we think, “Gosh, we could have made it through that. Where would I have been sitting? What would I have done? How could I have maybe helped prevent it or stop it?” You know, back to “Let\u2019s roll, America.” But then you get what I call the blender effect. Like you turn on the blender, and, man, it\u2019s like you\u2019re not gonna make it through this. But I think every person has a basic survival instinct that —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute. You\u2019ve been in a blender?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, no. But looking at some of these airplane crashes? Man, it would have had to have been like a blender. The towers coming down on 9\/11 would have been a blender, man. Nobody survives that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I see. So your theory is we have news of a plane crashing into the side of a mountain, and we immediately imagine ourselves to be on it, and ask, “What would we have felt, what would we have done, what would we have done to survive it, how could we have helped?” because of our survivalist instinct, and that\u2019s why we\u2019re fascinated. It could be. It could be. I frankly don\u2019t know how many people imagine being on an airplane that crashes, but it could well be. <\/p>\n

I think people give thanks they\u2019re not and I think people do wonder what it must have been like. But I don\u2019t think they want to actually be part of it. He\u2019s calling, by the way, in response to me. I asked an open-ended question last hour: “Why is it that a plane crash dominates news cycles for days, when the number of people who die in a plane crash pales in comparison to the number of people that die in automobile wrecks every year?” It\u2019s not just that large number of people die at one time versus smaller numbers dying in auto accidents. It\u2019s not just that. There\u2019s something else. And this is his attempt to answer the question, his philosophical answer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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