Flight 187 in the Hizzouse!

Jet Blue, you and your seat-back satellite televisions are no longer on the cutting edge of in-flight entertainment. Pilots at Miami International Airport have told FAA officials that their communications are being disrupted by hip-hop music being broadcast from a pirate radio station called Da Streetz.

The Miami Herald’s David Ovalle writes:

The music from the pirate radio station has been so troublesome over the last month that a federal engineer who specializes in frequency transmissions has arrived in Miami to help investigators locate the signal.

“It’s intermittent. Not all day, every day,” said Kathleen Bergen, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration. “But clear communication between air control and the pilots is a critical part of flying.”

Ovalle writes that the FAA has investigated 30 similar pirate stations interfering with airport transmissions during the past decade.

I know that this is a serious matter, but when I picture a pilot sitting in the cockpit, little metal wings pinned on his uniform, listening to some Ghostface Killah pulsing through his headphones, I can’t help but be amused. 

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