Flight 187 in the Hizzouse!
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 03.21.06 | 9:54 AM ET
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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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
Shari 03.21.06 | 2:54 PM ET
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