Captain John Doe: Anonymous Aviation Stories
By Mindy and Kevin Lindheim
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Episodes: 63
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Captain John Doe is the anonymous inbox of the skies. Every week, we share jaw-dropping, hilarious, and occasionally terrifying aviation stories submitted by pilots, flight attendants, air traffic controllers, and everyday passengers. These are the confessions and cockpit tales you won’t hear anywhere else.
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#62 - Flight Attendant Put Laxative In Coffee, Inadvertent Proposal, SR 71 Speed Story
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Sep 23, 2026 |
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#61 - 300 FT Auto Rotation, Life On The Line, Should You Stop By NGAV
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Sep 19, 2026 |
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#60 - Flight Crew Got Drunk, Rigging Job Gone Wrong in Mexico, Am I Too Old To Learn To Fly?
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Sep 09, 2026 |
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#59 - Drunkenly Missed My Flight, Aborted Takeoff On First Solo, Almost Pulled Caps
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Sep 02, 2026 |
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#58 - Critical Comms Error on Final, Intentional Hypoxia, Accidental First XC Solo
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Aug 26, 2026 |
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#57 - 70 Million Dollar Damage, Southwest-Hats Fly Free, Vegas Gambling Tips
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Aug 19, 2026 |
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#56 - Kevin Is An Airline Pilot!, Airspeed Unreliable Over Bimini, Too Many Edibles
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Aug 12, 2026 |
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#55 - Smoky Arrival Into Oshkosh, ATC Always Wins, Mistaken For A Drug Lord
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Aug 05, 2026 |
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#54 - We're Hiring, Plane Seat Stealing, Tipsy Pilot
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Jul 29, 2026 |
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#53 - Vegas to Georgia in Small Plane, Student Doesn’t Know What A Cloud Is, Motion Sick over Mississippi
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Jul 22, 2026 |
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#52 - Mindy Bought A Flight School, I Gave My Examiner a ZYN, Red Flags At A Flight School
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Jul 15, 2026 |
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#51 - Who Needs A Barf Bag, But Did You Die, 54 Yr Old Mom Learning To Fly
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Jul 08, 2026 |
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#50 - Flew Into A Presidential TFR, The Airport Bar Almost Got Us, How To Be a Part 61 CFI
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Jul 01, 2026 |
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#49 - Gulfstream Forgot to Shutdown Engine When Parking, Throttle Stuck Open Emergency Landing
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Jun 24, 2026 |
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#48 - We Hitchhiked Albuquerque, Warthog A10 Near Miss, Bird Strike On Christmas
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Jun 17, 2026 |
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#47 - Motion Sick Passenger Hits FA In Face, I Vomited During My Checkride, When To Actually Pull The Chute?
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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#46 - Jet Flight Plans, Solo next to a C17, 7 G's in a Skyhawk
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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#45 Bet On Yourself and Your Career, Dual Engine Failure, Flight Testing Gone South in Business Jet
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May 27, 2026 |
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#44- Married Co-Pilots, Aircraft Values, Solo Student Is Not Maverick, Pilot To ATC Career
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May 20, 2026 |
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#43 - Our Plane Wouldn’t Start, Gas Station Lunch Break, Water In The Fuel Tank, Career Change Question
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May 13, 2026 |
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#42 - Farewell Spirit Airlines, Gate Agent Fights Off Family Of 8, Busted My IFR Checkride
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May 06, 2026 |
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#41 - Left Seat In The Brand New Vision Jet, Turbulence Down Under, 'The Rock' Drank 6 Coronas And No Bathroom.
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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#40 - Buying Your First Jet, Pilot Declines Landing Clearance, Passengers Saw Me Poop
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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#39 - Door Opens On First Solo, Frontier Pilot Makes Bomb Threat
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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#38 - Sonic Boom Scares, 1600 Foot Runway On Checkride, How To Get Into Aircraft Sales
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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#37 - Near Catastrophe For a Student Pilot, Cirrus Pilot Tried to Land on Top of Me
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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#36 - Near Miss With A Banner Tow, No One Was Flying, Crappy Flight School Planes
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Mar 28, 2026 |
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#35 - Cirrus Avoids Nicaragua, Funny Pilot Prank, How To Approach Pilot Influencers
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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#34 - Tribal Police Confiscate Plane, Concorde Jumpseat, Student Work Life Balance
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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#33 - Snorting Off Tray Table, Electrical Failure on Solo, Area51 FOIA
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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#32 - Lied On My Medical, Declared No.2 Emergency, How to Tell Sales Guy To Go Away
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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#31 - Crashing With The Mob, A Red Wing Mess, Checkride In Icing Conditions
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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#30 - Illegally at Navy Base, She Doesn't Want Your Number, Struck By Lightning
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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#29 - Dinosaur On Taxiway, Pee West, Advice to Connect With Pilots
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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#28 - Horror Travel Stories! Don't Eat the Fried Minnows; Dengue Fever Put Her in the ER
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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#27 - A Unicorn On Board, Drunk And Unconscious, Anxious Pilot Advice
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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#26 - Pee Piddle Packs, Clapped Out Cessnas, Should He Keep His Wings?
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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#25 - Impersonating Flight Attendant For Free Flights, Funny FBO Moments, What's The Sunset Remind You Of
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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#24 - Happy New Year, First Solo Story, NASA Commander Looking Down
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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#23 - Family Jewels Stuck Upside Down, Not Supporting Husband to be Pilot, Near Death in a C17
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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#22 - Accidental Engine Out, We Hit A Deer On Landing, APU Fire For Coffee
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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#21 - Airplane Yips, Captain Busted Speeding, Friend Wanted To Use Jet For Free
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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#20 - Our Engine Has 350mg Of Sodium, Instructors Make the Difference
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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#19 - Flight Attendant Finds Sugar Daddy, The Students Showed Up Drunk
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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#18 - Accused Of Drug Running, Airstair Nearly Killed Me, Door Opened On My Solo
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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#17 - Accidentally Supersonic, Emergency Landing at an Air Force Base, Don't Fly Selfish
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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#16 - LIVE from NBAA! Stowaway Cat on Private Jet & Sabotaging a Chief Pilot
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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#15 - Halloween Special - UFOs, Area51 & WWII Reincarnated Children
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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#14 - We Both Puked In The Cockpit, Teaching Your Spouse To Fly
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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#13 - Crash Pad Disasters, Smokey Landing Gear, Check Your Autopilot
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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#12 - McMonster Chased Me To The Lav, A True Wingman
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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#11 - Landed With No Oil, Full Frontal With The AME
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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#10 - KY Derby Passenger Princess, El Chapo On The Ramp, I'm Going To Jail For This
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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#9 - Pudding First, Missed Shift Because of My Wife, Cloud Surfing, Student Pilot Burnout
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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#8 - Someone Stole My Plane, My Zen CFI, Accidentally Soloed a Plane
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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#7 - Special Guest Submission CHRIS PALMER from Angle of Attack!
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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#6 - A Seasoned Mechanic, Poo in a Tray, Controller Pranks
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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#5 - Not that anonymous
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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#4 - Should We Buy a Plane, Free Cocktails, Discovery Flight Emergency
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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#1 - APU Fire, Stuck in a Spin, Shutting Up a Doctor
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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#2 - Student Tried to Kill Me, Living with an Air Traffic Controller
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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#3 - Flew Pax to Wrong Airport, Paying for Interview, Police Arrest a Smoker
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Introducing Captain John Doe
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Jul 31, 2025 |