Southwest Pilot Caught On Hot Mic Blasting Bay Area 'Liberal F**ks' And 'Weirdos'
A ranting Southwest Airlines pilot was caught on a hot mic at Mineta San Jose International Airport slamming the San Francisco Bay Area’s “goddamn liberal f**ks” and “f**king weirdos.”
Southwest confirmed to the San Francisco Chronicle that the pilot was indeed one of theirs and that the company was dealing with the issue “internally.” Southwest did not reveal the pilot’s identity.
The expletive-riddled tirade occurred March 13 and was was first reported by travel site One Mile at a Time. It was initially revealed in a tweet by Will Lawton, a private pilot based in San Jose who routinely listens to air traffic control chatter on LiveATC. The first jolting remark from the Southwest flight was an extremely angry: “Fuck this place.”
Lawton deduced the plane and the airline from the communications.
“As to whether it was the captain or the first officer, there’s no way to know, and only Southwest would have a record of what pilots were working what flights on that day,” Lawton said in a message to the Chronicle.
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