Air Disasters: Dramatic black box flight recordings

FIRST OFFICER: Whew, I got a, oh boy, stay with us.

CAPTAIN: Taxi, Victor 1 Victor…

FIRST OFFICER: That’s Victor to one Victor, Victor one to Victor. Gee whiz. Well, that’s 23.0.

CAPTAIN: Flight level 230 for Express 705. 27.4 Express 704 on 33.0 Leaving one six direct Razorback Express 705.

FIRST OFFICER: Zero one, okay. Here we go.

CAPTAIN: That’s Crowley’s Ridge, you know about Crowley’s Ridge?

FIRST OFFICER: Naw, naw.

CAPTAIN: That’s it right there.

FIRST OFFICER: All, all this area right here?

CAPTAIN: See these trees?

FIRST OFFICER: Yeah.

CAPTAIN: That’s a natural fault line.

FIRST OFFICER: Oh, this is the New Madrid, uh…

CAPTAIN: Well, it’s part of it, yeah, but it’s much higher in elevation and the…climate is different. You drive in Arkansas, you drive right over it.

FIRST OFFICER: Well, I…

CAPTAIN: You see all those trees there, that’s it.

FIRST OFFICER: I know it, but I wonder about that. You go, Wynne, and all the, you know, stuff over here, you know, where it’s flat and you cross over that and I wondered about that. That’s not part of the no vaculight uplift and all that, that’s where? That’s further west, isn’t it?

CAPTAIN: Yeah.

FLIGHT ENGINEER: Altimeters.

FIRST OFFICER: Nines and twos here.

FLIGHT ENGINEER: After takeoff is complete.

FIRST OFFICER: Do you, uh, live over in Arkansas, Dave, or…?

CAPTAIN: Naw, I live in Fisherville.

FIRST OFFICER: Aw, Fisherville, great spot.

[Sound of hammer blows striking first officer and flight engineer]

FLIGHT ENGINEER: Ow!

FIRST OFFICER: God!

FIRST OFFICER: Oh, ah, shit.

CAPTAIN: God almighty!

FLIGHT ENGINEER: Ow!

FIRST OFFICER: What the fuck are you doing?

CAPTAIN: God, [groan] God almighty! God, God, God…

FIRST OFFICER: Get him, get him, get him.

CAPTAIN: He’s going to kill us.

FIRST OFFICER: Get him!

CAPTAIN: Get up, get him!

FLIGHT ENGINEER: I can’t, God!

UNIDENTIFIED: Stop! Hold his goddamn…

JUMP-SEAT PASSENGER: Sit down, sit down, get back in your seat, this is a real gun, I’ll kill ya.

FIRST OFFICER: Get him, get him, get him, get him, get him, get him!

AUTO WARNING HORN: Bank angle, bank angle.

FIRST OFFICER: Get him, get him, get him!

JUMP-SEAT PASSENGER: I’m gonna kill you! Hey, hey! I’ll kill ya!

AUTO WARNING HORN: Bank angle, bank angle.

CAPTAIN: Get him, get him, get him!

AUTO WARNING HORN: Bank angle, bank angle.

CAPTAIN: Yeah, get him!

AUTO WARNING HORN: Bank angle, bank angle.

FIRST OFFICER: Get him, get him, get him, Andy, I got the aeroplane!

AUTO WARNING HORN: Bank angle, bank angle.