Curiously, air traffic control is not curious. They haven't asked. I usually they ask at some point in this evolution, what's wrong with your aircraft? Uh they're going to ask some questions but not that one. It's interesting. You need about 51 minutes will be right. 5 minutes. That's a good call. All right. Uh 5 minutes before you get on the final or 5 minutes before you land. Great clarification, right? 5 minutes before you land, all together or 5 minutes before I turn you back in. That's a good clarification. He's going to say 5 minutes before final. 5 minutes before tomorrow. There you go. So actually about 10 minutes all together. American 35 for now. I'm holding a 230 and I'm ready to see to 190. That should probably work out for the five minutes and I'm put it right on the final. All right, 230 we're doing 19 now. I'm going to start down point 31. So what's going on right at this moment? The at this point they've done all their internal checklist in the cockpit. They've probably communicated with dispatch in some way shape perform. And now I'm guessing that the captain is on the radio or on the the intercom talking to the number one flight attendant telling them what's going on. He's probably wrapping that conversation up pretty quickly. Next is he's going to put his phone back down, pick it right back up and make a public address to all of the passengers in the back of the airplane. A good PA at this point just gives the minimum details. Hey folks, it's me, the captain. We're on our way back into Philadelphia. Uh when we took off, we hit a couple of birds. The aircraft is fine, we're flying just fine. But we want to go get the aircraft checked out. We don't want to go all the way to San Francisco having some potential damage to the outside of the airplane. So as a precaution, we're going to come back into Philadelphia. We're going to taxi off the runway, we go back to the gate, get our maintenance guys to come out and take a look at it. Uh I'll give you more details as we get them listen to the instructions of your flight attendants and please prepare for landing. All right, that's that's about all the more information. You don't need to get all dramatic with people. Just give them the bare information, but you do want to communicate with them. Why? It's a matter of respect. All right? You've set in the back of the airplane and you're like, what in the world is going on, right? You're delay at the gate or some place else and nobody has told you anything. It's a matter of respect to keep the passengers in the loop without harassing them unnecessarily, all right? There's nothing harassing about what's going on in this flight. Apparently both engines are still operating and the aircraft is just coming back to get it checked out. So here we go. He starting that PA to the past. 35 you want to hold on the runway for a minute you think when you land how to get out you going to be able to. We'll be able to 2035. Thank you. All right. So he's thinking ahead this air traffic controller what's going to happen when you get on the 2035. It's a little bit of time. There's a fair amount of silence. Why? So I think the captain is on the phone talking to everybody in the back at this point. the first officer probably looking at the captain going and waiting for him to get done with this PA, when he gets down with this PA, they want to know if we're ready to turn back in captain. captain go. We're ready? Well, it's not. Right. He's talking on the phone. I guaranteed. Okay, different voice, right? Who was that? That was a Captain. Captain just tuned in and said we're ready. Now, instead of relaying that through his first officer, right? So now they're going to give me a turn. 35 turn left heading of we can get a 150. Okay. Here they go. This is text book. Wait these guys are handling. 35 12 and uh you're 411. So I'll tell you. I
