Air Europa Hijack False Alarm at Schiphol Airport
A major security scare occurred at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam after an Air Europa pilot mistakenly triggered a 7500 transponder code, signaling a hijacking. The error resulted in a massive military and police response, grounding flights for two hours. Reports suggest the captain may have been demonstrating cockpit procedures to an intern when the code was entered.
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00:00 Now that's what I call talent. Adam Curry, John C. DeVorah It's Thursday November 7th 2019 This is your award winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 1188 This is no agenda Sitting at the center of the world and broadcasting live just off runway 27 at Schiphol Airport in the capital of Gitmo nation lowlands In the morning everybody! I'm Adam Curry And from Northern Silicon Valley where we're fogged in And it's gonna be kind of chilly. I'm John C Devore. Crackpot and Buzzkill! In the morning! Hey, John! Logged in... 45 degrees, Schiphol Airport Amsterdam rainy gray skies and it's nighttime. They said was nice Oh, I didn't say that. I said is horrible as grey She said it was nice When did I say that?
00:52 When I first hooked up the connection a minute ago. You said what's the weather? For the show! And I said grey and you heard nice Oh, I thought you said great Ah, it certainly wasn't nice No, you said great I said grey Well, you left out the tea. You dropped your tea like a millennial and I just thought you said meant great! That's on the schedule to be discussed. We will be discussing that on the show today. However for a brief moment yesterday Schiphol my temporary home was the center of the universe! Good evening! Dad, I just got over here What?
01:35 That news got over here. Yeah, I know! I'm totally timing my clips and you just jumped right in...I'll try again so we can edit it later We were the center of the universe!!! Good evening. The world held its breath for hours late today after word of a possible airplane hijack drama unfolding in Amsterdam, a signal mistakenly transmitted from the cockpit of a Madrid bound airplane indicating a hijack was in progress triggered a full on military and police response and reminded us all that when it comes to aviation security there is no taking chances. Kelly Cobia starts us off
02:11 At one of the busiest airports in the world tonight, a major security scare. Planes stranded at gates after Dutch police got a hijacking alert from the cockpit of a plane that hadn't taken off. Flights delayed parts to the airport closed nearly two hours later it was over The airline Air Europa explaining on Twitter the alert was activated by mistake nothing has happened all passengers are safe and sound 50 million travelers fly through Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport every year. Last New Year's Eve, passengers were evacuated after a man claimed to have a bomb. Police arrested a 51-year old Canadian but found no explosives. Tonight Dutch military police tell us they're still investigating what sparked todays hijacking alarm. Lester? Alright Kelly, Kobie here with those anxious moments thank you. Oh yes very anxious moments
03:04 I was not in the hotel. I was at Christina's house in Rotterdam But taxi Eric was here because he's always driving people to and from the airport He said he had never seen so many blue lights in all the years. He's working near the airport He says it was completely filled It was a mess and everybody wanted know what's happening there were reports that there were stabbings And they were the craziest no one knew anything about And quite honestly, I was sitting with Christina and Shinta. We're smoking dope you know we're like whatever yeah we'll figure it out later but Eric was texting me updates people are sending me emails like uh... You okay? That's always interesting how that goes. Well i appreciate it! It's nice that people think of me in that way
03:49 We got a little bit of information within an hour or so on CNN. I'll play a bit of this. Europa says an emergency involving one of its planes in Amsterdam is false alarm spokesperson for the Dutch military says passengers and crew are safely off the plane after what it's called a suspicious situation aboard an aircraft emergency services had flocked to the airport and there was a major incident underway Nick Robertson is following this in London and Nick I shall give you the delight and joy of telling us what Air Europa says was the reason why. Air Europa says that it was a mistake on board the aircraft, that the warning that it was triggered
04:37 By mistake, a warning was triggered by mistake. Okay at this point that's where I'm tuning out and like okay they have no idea what they're talking about so i do know what happened and it is really its on odd one and its stupid but also odd On every aircraft that flies, certainly commercial you have a transponder. And the transponder is a little box that has four digits on it's very simple and the transponder... You're asked to set a code in there and then radar can read that
05:14 And identify you by the code they just gave you. So my plane would be, you know 8529 and that's what you see on the radar. Yes flight flight radar exactly and the box also broadcast position it broadcasts airspeed altitude etc This box, the way you activate it is... I mean there's really two. There are two models kind of and one is you'll set each number when just tapping up or down literally like an Up or Down button And then you press another button then its activated The newer models I would say Or just different models You really only have to type in the four digits Then when hit the fourth one It starts to broadcast with that code There are a couple special codes
06:03 One is 7000, which is used pretty much universally around the world. There's a lot of people just flying under visual flight rules so Cessnas and stuff like that and so they as long as they can see that there's That there's a lot of seven thousands and keep them away from each other than everything's good So you don't really need to know specifics about those aircraft. But we also have 7700, which is an emergency so shit's going down you hit 7700 as soon as your calling on the radio. 7600 is if you can't communicate with your radio doesn't necessarily mean that you have an emergency but then they can say okay they've a radio problem. 7500 is hijack
06:47 So, the story that I got locally was the captain of Air Europa was showing an intern stuff in the cockpit. Which sounds really sketchy! So if he, I can just imagine the guy you know, Captain Arioper here let me just show you. You press in look it's an emergency hijack? I'll show what we do baby! We just hit 7500 and he did that and it started broadcasting 7500 so that shows up on the radar And there is no calling down to say hey everything okay on that hijack now There's none of that It's immediate they go to we learned a new code here in Holland Grisp 3
07:31 I'd never heard of this, it's like a Defcon 3 or something for Dutch style. And they called out everybody and so there was purely just the captain showing off to some intern." Well, I think...for the writers out there… Here we go! You punch that code in by accident with this cock and bull story, and then after about five minutes or ten minutes you know all the cops are headed your way. You rob a bank." Exactly! I should have checked the news for anything else going on. Banks were robbed... But it is strange. I did talk to a journalist here who i know this morning And he said, ya'know its really odd Adam though because we got very credible reports
08:20 from people who really know what's going on at the airport that there were three people arrested for some stabbing. He says, you know we can't get any... There is no confirmation or denial so I'll just leave that for what it is but you know that's like two sources removed. Maybe this is a cover-up for the stabbings? It could be! It could be. I mean it's easy enough anybody can go in and talk to the captain say look we're punching these numbers and he's gonna shut up about it but anyway that was it so it was odd how How it spread so quickly, you know stuff happens all over the world all the time I don't remember that the world holding its breath for two hours in Europe. They did in your lesser old had it is in Europe They held their breath if they broke into the news they immediately stopped game shows It was great like oh we got something and
