Comedian Uses 1 Blunt Description To Take Down FAA Dismissal Of His Plane Crash Findings

“That’s dumb, they’re dumb,” Fielder told CNN’s Pamela Brown after she noted that the agency “isn’t seeing the data” to support the show’s “central claim” that pilot miscommunications are to blame for air disasters.

Fielder explored communication breakdowns in the cockpit via the docu-comedy series’ second season, leaning on his awkward approach to humor that blurs the lines between reality and comedy — all while recreating possible social interactions to draw his conclusions.

Fielder shared his findings in a similarly surreal segment on CNN on Thursday, with Brown turning to a statement from an FAA spokesperson in response to the show. The FAA statement said the agency requires airline crew and dispatchers to complete a “Crew Resource Management” training before official work, noting they must return to the course on a “recurring basis” thereafter.

Fielder swiftly laid into his “issue” with the FAA’s statement, saying that he trained to be a pilot in the new season.

“The training is someone shows you a PowerPoint slide saying, ‘If you are a co-pilot and the captain does something wrong, you need to speak up about it.’ That’s all. That’s the training,” he said.

“And they talk about some crashes that happened, but they don’t do anything that makes it stick emotionally.”

Former National Transportation Safety Board member and aviation expert John Goglia, who appears in “The Rehearsal,” stressed to Brown and CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that communication has long been seen as an “issue” in the aviation community.

He noted that while Crew Resource Management training has “effectively” dealt with this, Fielder found “a little sliver that has fallen through the cracks” via a communications disconnect between pilots.

When asked if the federal government should investigate the issue, Goglia said such a probe “needs to start.”

“CRM has been an effective tool in the cockpit. We need to look at it in the light of CRM and see if we need to put a module in there that deals with this,” said Goglia, clarifying that “role-playing” training with pilots should be taken into consideration.