Californian Woman Confronts Pilot Over Pollution

A video of a Californian woman confronting a pilot

after he landed at 1:30 AM has just gone viral.

We're tired of you dumping heavy metals all over our county.

Mm, well, I'm not the one to talk to about that.

No, but you are. But you're the one that's doing it, so.

For the last several years, she's tracked these flights over Tuolumne

County,

collected over 20 rainwater samples, and filed public records

requests revealing hazardously elevated levels of

aluminum, barium, strontium, titanium, and magnesium, the very materials they

use in their trails, as confirmed by air sample analysis

collected up in the sky within the trails themselves.

At great effort and expense, we acquired a National Oceanic

and Atmospheric

Administration flying lab with top scientists in it, took samples at

altitude behind heavy aircraft. We sampled what they were emitting.

The sample was processed at one of the top testing institutions in the world.

We found exactly what we knew we would find.

Fast-forward to this week, when she claims to have had enough.

Using Flightradar24, she tracked a Beech C90 King Air

conducting repeated seeding flights over Sonora.

She drove to the Modesto Jet Center to confront the pilots

directly. 904 DK. That's who that is.

He can go himself. At some point, I will get down to the airport.

So this is the Modesto Jet

Center, okay? Oh my God, that's them. Look at them in the building.

They let me in. You're Tim, right?

I'm one of the other captains.

Oh, great. We've been trying to reach you for a long

time.

Oh.

And we are tired of you dumping heavy metals all over our

county.

Mm, well, I'm not the one to talk to about that.

No, but you are. But you're the one that's doing it, so.

I've been taking rain samples. I have over 20 samples,

and every time you fly, we

get high amounts of aluminum, barium, strontium, titanium, magnesium.

You can talk to them about that.

I've tried. I've called them, and they're not calling me back, so we're

now gonna bring something legal against your company.

We are real people underneath what you're doing.

You spray right over our houses. Now, you did two flights,

two three-hour flights.

Yes, it's public knowledge.

It's... Well, it's not really, though. That's the problem.

You've been doing this for 30 years.

They are now selling aluminum genetically modified

seeds to grow food because our soil is so contaminated.

Right.

There's an early-onset dementia. There's Alzheimer's.

Things are starting to happen to people's health.

That's not my department. I-

I know the goal is great-

Did you drive here today?

Yes, we did.

You're contributing to the pollution in the environment just like-

No, what is your name again?

It's none of your business.

It is my business because you're over my head dumping over our families-

We're not doing anything illegal, so

... and our houses. It's not illegal yet.

You are contributing to dumping heavy metals on our

soils and in our air. We're breathing it. We're drinking it.

We're eating it. It matters to me.

I understand that. I'm not saying it doesn't matter.

I'm just saying I'm not-

It does matter

... I'm not, but I'm not the one for you to bring these

concerns to.

We do the best we can to bring awareness to it, and we-

Yeah, and it is proper awareness, and it's not conspiracy theorist stuff