Last Words

コックピット・ボイス・レコーダやATCのテープから再現した墜落前最後のパイロットの言葉集

January 5, 1969 - Ariana Afghan Airlines - Flight 701 - Horley, England

CAPT - Flaps three zero.

CAPT - Three zero coming down.

F/O - Four hundred feet.

CAPT - Four hundred feet?

F/O - Yes, we have four hundred feet.

[Sound of full power being applied]

F/O - We're finished!

The aircraft descended below the glide slope and crashed into trees and a house  short of the runway.  The accident was caused by incorrectly set instruments and flaps.

 

December 29, 1972 - Eastern Air Lines - Flight 401 - Everglades Nat. Park, FL

F/O - We did something to the altitude!

CAPT - What?

CAPT - We're still at 2,000 - right?

CAPT - Hey - what's happening here!

[Altimeter warning]

[Sound of impact]

While in a holding pattern over the Everglades, at night, the crew inadvertently disengaged the autopilot while preoccupied with a landing gear problem. The aircraft slowly descended until it crashed into the Everglades.

 

March 27, 1977 - KLM/Pan Am - Flights 1736/4805 - Tenerife, Canary Islands

[KLM]
F/E - Is he not clear then?

CAPT - What do you say?

F/O - Yup!

F/E - Is he not clear that Pan American

CAPT - Oh yes!

[Pan Am]
CAPT - Let's get the hell out of here!

F/O - Yeh, he's anxious isn't he.

F/E - Yeh, after he held us up for an hour and a half..
now he's in a rush.

CAPT - There he is ..look at him! Goddamn .. that son-of-a-bitch is coming! Get off! Get off! Get off!

A ground collision in fog resulted between two 747s after the captain of the KLM plane took off without clearance and hit the Pan Am plane still taxing up the runway.  Five-hundred-eighty-three people were killed making it the worst death toll in aviation history.

 

September 25, 1978 - Pacific Southwest Airlines - Flight 182 - San Diego, CA

[Sound of impact with Cessna]

CAPT - Oh Shit!

CAPT - Easy baby, easy baby.

CAPT - What have we got here?

F/O - It's bad!

CAPT - Eh?

F/O - We're hit man, we are hit!

CAPT - Tower - we're going down - this is PSA.

TOWER - OK - we'll call the equipment for you.

[Sound of stall warning]

CAPT - This is it baby!

UNIDENTIFIED - Bob.... [Name of F/O]

CAPT - Brace yourself!

UNIDENTIFIED - Hey baby..

UNIDENTIFIED - Ma I love you...

[End of recording]

The Boeing 727 crashed shortly after experiencing a midair collision with a Cessna 172.

 

December 28, 1978 - Untied Air Lines - Flight 173 - Portland, OR

F/O - Portland tower, United 173, Mayday! We're.. the engines are flaming out - we're going down! We're not going to be able to make the airport!

The aircraft ran out of fuel while the crew was preoccupied with a landing gear problem.

 

November 28, 1979 - Air New Zealand - Flight 901- Mt. Erebus, Antarctica

MULGREW - I reckon Bird's through here and Ross
Island there.  Erebus should be here.

CAPT - Actually, these conditions don't look very good at all, do they?

MULGREW - No they don't.

MULGREW - That looks like the edge of Ross Island there.

F/E - I don't like this.

CAPT - Have you got anything from him?

F/O - No.

CAPT - We're 26 miles north.  We'll have to climb out of this.

MULGREW - You can see Ross Island?  Fine.

F/O - You're clear to turn right.  There's no high ground if you do a one eighty.

CAPT - No.... negative.

[Whoop whoop pull up]

F/E - Five hundred feet.

[Whoop whoop pull up]

F/E - Four hundred feet

CAPT - Go-around power, please.

[Whoop whoop pull -]

[Sound of impact]

The aircraft crashed into the slopes of Mt. Erebus while on sightseeing flight to Antarctica.  An incorrect computer-stored flight plan resulted in a navigational error directing the flight towards Mt. Erebus.

 

January 13, 1982 - Air Florida - Flight 90 - Washington D.C.

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CAPT - Forward, forward, easy. We only want five hundred.

CAPT - Come on forward...forward...just barely climb.

CAPT - Stalling, we're falling!

F/O - Larry, we're going down, Larry....

CAPT - I know it!

[Sound of impact]

Failure to deice and use the engine anti-icing system resulted in incorrect engine pressure ratio readings and throttle setting which caused the aircraft to stall and crash into the Potomac River shortly after takeoff.

 

June 8, 1982 - VASP - Flight 168 - Near Sierra de Pacatuba, Brazil

F/O Can you see there are some hills in front?

CAPT - What? There's what?

F/O - ...some hills, isn't there?

[Sound of impact]

The aircraft crashed into hills during approach after the crew did not follow air traffic procedures.

 

August 2, 1985 - Delta Air Lines - Flight 191 - Dallas, TX

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CAPT - Push it up. Push it way up.

CAPT - Way up!...

S/O- Way up!...

CAPT - Way up!...

[Sound of engines high RPM]

CAPT - That's it!

CAPT - Hang onto the son-of-a bitch!

F/O - What's the vee-ref?

[Whoop whoop pull up!]

[Whoop whoop pull up!]

CAPT - TOGA! (take-off-go-round)

[Whoop whoop pull up!]

[Sound of Go-around initiation - beeping]

UNIDENTIFIED - Holy Shit!

CAPT - Push it way up.

[Whoop whoop pull up!]

[Whoop whoop pull up!]

[Sound of radio altimeters beeping]

[First bounce]

UNIDENTIFIED - Shit!

UNIDENTIFIED - Oh shit!

[End of recording]

The aircraft crashed after encountering windshear while attempting to land during a thunderstorm.

August 12, 1985 - Japan Airlines -Flight 123 - Mt. Osutaka, Japan

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Recording of the last seconds of Flight 123 (in Japanese)

CAPT - Raise nose, raise nose, raise nose.  Stop flap. Do not extend flap so deeply.  Flap up, flap up, flap up, flap up, flap up.

F/O - Yes, sir.

CAPT - Power, power. Flap.

F/O - I am retracting

CAPT- Raise nose, raise nose, power.

[Sink rate - whoop whoop  pull up - whoop whoop pull up - whoop whoop pull up - whoop whoop pull up]

[Sound of impact with first peak]

[Whoop whoop pull up]

[Sound of impact with second peak]

[End of recording]

The aircraft suffered an aft pressure bulkhead failure at 24,000 ft. after takeoff.  The plane experienced  severe control difficulties and eventually collided with a mountain.  Five-hundred-twenty people killed making it the worst single plane aviation accident in history.

June 7, 1989 - Surinam Airlines -Flight 764 - Near Paramaribo, South America

F/O - Two hundred feet

CAPT - Okay MDA.

CAPT - I'll level it out here right here.

F/O - One fifty.

S/O - Pull up

[Sound of first impact]

[Sound of stick shaker until the end of the recording]

S/O- Pull up.

S/O -That's it I'm dead.

[End of recording]

The aircraft crashed after the captain flew below published minimum altitudes while attempting to land.

 

July 19, 1989 - United Airlines - Flight 232 - Sioux City, IA

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F/O- Close 'em off.

CAPT - Left turn. Close 'em off.

F/O - Pull 'em off.

CAPT2 - nah, I can't pull 'em off or we'll lose it, that's what's turning ya.

CAPT - Okay!

CAPT 2 - Back Al!

CAPT - Left, throttle!

CAPT - Left, Left, Left, Left, Left, Left, Left, Left, Left, Left!

[Whoop whoop pull up]

[Whoop whoop pull up]

[Whoop whoop pull up]

CAPT - Everybody stay in brace!

[Whoop whoop pull up]

CAPT - God!

[Sound of impact]

The crew tried to land the aircraft using only engine thrust after an engine explosion disabled all three hydraulic systems on the plane. The crew's heroic efforts saved 187 out of 298 people's lives

 

March 3, 1991 - United Airlines - Flight 585 - Colorado Springs, CO

CAPT - Thirty flaps.

F/O - Wow!

[Sounds of reduced engine power]

F/O - We're at a 1,000 feet.

F/O - Oh, God, flip...

CAPT - Fifteen flaps.

F/O - Fifteen.

F/O- Oh!

CAPT- Oh!

CAPT - No!

F/O - Oh my God...Oh my God!

CAPT - Oh no [expletive deleted]

[Sound of Impact]

[End of recording]

While attempting to land, the aircraft went into an uncontrollable dive due to a rudder malfunction.

 

May 26, 1991 - Lauda Air - Flight 004 - Near Ban Nong Rong, Thailand

F/O - You need a little bit of rudder trim to the left.

CAPT - OK.

F/O - Ah, reverser's deployed.

[Sound of snap]

CAPT - Jesus Christ!

[Sound of four caution tones]

[Sound of siren warning]

CAPT - Here, wait a minute!

CAPT - Damn it!

[Sound of bang]

[End of recording]

The aircraft crashed after the inadvertent deployment of the No.1 engine thrust reverser in-flight.

 

October 4, 1992- El Al- Flight 1862- Amsterdam, Netherlands

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The crew of a cargo plane, El Al 1862, sends out a mayday after losing the No. 3 engine shortly after taking off from Schiphol Airport near Amsterdam. (Recording condensed into two short segments)

Crew - El Al one eight six two, Mayday! Mayday! We have an emergency.

Controller - El Al one eight six two, roger. Break, KLM 237, turn left heading 090.

Controller - One eight six two, do you wish to return to Schiphol?

Crew Afirmative, Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!

Controller - Turn right heading two six zero, field eh... behind you, eh.... in your - to the west, eh ....distance one eight miles.

Crew - Roger, we have fire on engine number three, we have fire on engine number three.

Controller - Roger, heading two seven zero for downwind.

Crew - Two seven zero downwind.

Crew - El Al one eight six two, lost number three and number four engine, number three and number four engine.

Controller - Roger, one eight six two.

Later in the recording as the plane approaches the airport attempting an emergency landing.

Controller - El Al one eight six two, continue descent one thousand five hundred feet...one thousand five hundred.

Crew - Fifteen hundred, and we have a controlling problem.

Controller - You have a controlling problem as well, roger.

Crew - [In the background, in Hebrew] Raise all the flaps, all the flaps raise.

Crew - [In the background] Ohhhhh!

Crew - [In the background, in Hebrew] Lower the gear.

Crew - Going down...eh...one eight six two, going down, going down, copied going down.

Controller - One eight six two, your heading,

Female Controller - [In Dutch] Forget it Henk, (controller痴 name), he crashed.

Female Controller - [In Dutch] I see one big fire above the city.

Controller - [In Dutch] Jesus, just at Whisky Papa Yosite (an intersection over a heavily populated area)

The 747 crashed into an 11 story building in the Bijlmermeer residential district, short of the runway, killing 47 people on the ground along with the crew of 4 on the plane.  A corroded midspar fuse pin on the number three engine caused the loss of the pylon and engine leading to loss of the number four engine and damage to the controls causing the aircraft to crash.

August 18, 1993- American Inter. Airways - Flight 808- Guantanamo Bay,Cuba

CAPT- Where's the strobe?

F/O - Do you think you're gonna make this?

CAPT - Yeah... if I can catch the strobe light.

F/O - 500, you're in good shape.

F/E - Watch the, keep your airspeed up.

F/O: 140.

[Sound of stall warning]

UNDETERMINED - Don't - stall warning.

CAPT - I got it.

F/O - Stall warning.

F/E - Stall warning.

CAPT - I got it, back off.

UNDETERMINED - Max power!

UNDETERMINED - There it goes, there it goes!

UNDETERMINED - Oh no!

[Screams]

[End of recording]

The plane crashed short of the runway while attempting to land after the effects of fatigue impaired the judgment, decision making and flying abilities of the crew.

 

September 22, 1995 - U.S. Air Force - Flight 27 - Anchorage, AK

F/O - Lower the nose, lower the nose, lower the nose.

CAPT - Goin’ down.

F/O - Oh my God.

CAPT - Oh #.

F/O - OK, give it all you got, give it all you got.

F/O - Crash landing...

CAPT - We’re goin’ in.

CAPT - We’re going down.

The aircraft crashed after suffering multiple bird strikes which disabled the engines.

 

December 20, 1995 - American Airlines - Flight 965 Buga, Colombia

CAPT - Nine-six-five, nine thousand feet.

[Terrain, terrain, whoop, whoop... ]

CAPT - Oh #

[Sound of autopilot disconnect warning starts]

CAPT - ... Pull up baby.

[Sound of stick shaker starts]

F/O- It's OK.

UNDETERMINED - Pull up.

CAPT- OK, easy does it, easy does it.

[Sound of autopilot disconnect warning]

[Sound of stick shaker stops]

F/O - Nope.

CAPT - Up baby...

[Sound of stick shaker starts]

CAPT - ... more more.

F/O - OK.

CAPT - Up, up, up.

[Whoop, whoop, pull up. ]

[End of recording]

The aircraft crashed into mountainous terrain while on approach due to navigational errors by the crew.

 

May 11, 1996 - ValuJet - Flight 592 - Miami, FL

[Sound of chirp with simultaneous beep on public address/interphone channel]

CAPT - What was that?

F/O - I don't know.

CAPT -  .... 'bout to lose a bus?

CAPT - We got some electrical problem.

F/O - Yeah.

F/O - That battery charger's kickin' in. Ooh, we gotta...

CAPT - We're losing everything.

TOWER - Critter five-nine-two, contact Miami center on one-thirty-two-forty-five, so long.

CAPT - We need, we need to go back to Miami.

[Sounds of shouting from passenger cabin]

Fire, fire, fire, fire.  [From female voices in cabin]

We're on fire, we're on fire.  [From male voice]

[Sound of tone similar to landing gear warning horn for three seconds]

TOWER - Critter five-ninety-two contact Miami center, one-thirty-two-forty-five.

CAPT - .... to Miami.

F/O - Uh, five-ninety-two needs immediate return to Miami.

TOWER - Critter five-ninety-two, uh, roger, turn left heading two-seven-zero. Descend and maintain seven thousand.

[Sounds of shouting from passenger cabin subsides]

F/O - Two-seven-zero, seven-thousand, five-ninety-two.

TOWER - What kind of problem are you havin'?

[Sound of horn]

CAPT - Fire

F/O - Uh, smoke in the cockpit ... smoke in the cabin.

TOWER - Roger.

CAPT - What altitude?

F/O - Seven thousand.

[Sound similar to cockpit door moving]

[Sound of six chimes similar to cabin service interphone]

FLIGHT ATTENDANT - OK, we need oxygen, we can't get oxygen back here.

FLIGHT ATTENDANT - ...ba..., is there a way we could test them? [Sound of clearing her voice]

TOWER -  Critter five-ninety-two, when able to turn left heading two-five-zero. Descend and maintain five-thousand.

[Sound of chimes similar to cabin service interphone]

[Sounds of shouting from passenger cabin]

F/O - Two-five-zero seven-thousand.

FLIGHT ATTENDANT - Completely on fire.

[Sounds of shouting from passenger cabin subsides]

F/O - Outta nine.

[Sound of intermittent horn]

[Sound similar to loud rushing air]
F/O - Critter five-ninety-two, we need the, uh, closest airport available ...

TOWER - Critter five-ninety-two, they're going to be standing by for you. You can plan runway one two.... 

[One minute and twelve second interruption in CVR recording]

UNIDENTIFIED - Need radar vectors.

[Communication with aircraft ends]

The aircraft crashed after an uncontrollable fire broke out due to activation of one or more live oxygen generators being illegally transported in the forward cargo hold.