Saddest pilots last words part 2

that mid air collision with the recorder still working and the pilot telling the other hes sorry is so horrifying.

What a great video to recommend as I wait at my gate

"Im so sorry. Were going to crash" Last words were spent on the lives of his passengers...not family, not himself. Just his passengers and his remorse. Heavy shit.

“Not motherfucking flying!” Thats is the last words you’d EVER wanna hear your pilot scream

"I TOLD YOU IT WAS ON THE LEFT" "sorry you were right:("

I listened to a CVR years ago that still haunts me. The first officer had blundered on the landing. They attempted to gain altitude to fly around and attempt to land again but the damage was done. The last thing the captain said was “you’ve killed us all.” The copilot said: “I know.”

That one pilot howling. it just terrible! He knew what was going to happen and could not do anything about it.

The first audio is genuinely some of the most terrifying I've heard and I've been around on the internet for a long time.

Hearing the Western Airlines 2605 captain scream for his life makes my stomach turn, blood run cold, and heart shatter substantially.

As for the Uberlingen - I personally saw the DHL aircraft that day and had a brief radio conversation with the pilots. They were #1 for departure out of Bahrain, in the hammerhead, when I landed there. They complimented my landing right on tower frequency. I remember them saying “Awww Reach, that was beautiful” right as I touched my C-5 down. We exchanged brief pleasantries. They said they were going to Italy and then Belgium. We then wished each other well. The tower controller casually let us finish our brief chit chat before clearing them for takeoff. To this day, having over 15,000 flight hours of combined military and civilian aviation, I have never had a conversation with another aircraft on an operational ATC frequency the way that I did that day! We left Bahrain, flew to Germany, and were all shocked to hear the news of what had happened after landing there.

When the pilot is verbally panicking you are really screwed

In the last example, there was only 1 survivor - a 4 year old girl. It has the record for the deadliest plane crash ever with a sibgle survivor.

When I was a pilot for Delta, they used to replicate that microburst for us in the sim from the L1011 crash in Dallas. The technology has improved exponentially since the crash, but that scenario is still a handful even with the new equipment.

Delta 191 is rather infamous in aviation history. Other than the hint of lightning in the recording, you don't get a clear idea as to what happened, but they flew into a microburst that essentially pushed the plane into the ground. It was thanks to this flight that windshear alerts became a thing.

in the first record the scream of pilot was realy sad

i had no idea the CVR for the überlingen disaster was even publicly released. that's actually probably the most disturbing CVR i think i've heard. you have to realise that after impact, the russian plane's nose (and cockpit) was severed from the rest of the aircraft as the wreckage plummeted to the ground. the whooshing sound is the open air behind the pilots. the passengers - CHILDREN - were torn from their seats and launched into the sky, freefalling. the grunts and groans coming from the CVR are the pilots either struggling to breathe the thin air of high altitudes, or struggling to deal with the insane G forces they were experiencing, or both at once.

The scream of agony is just heartbreaking.

Scariest thing about a plane crash is knowing that death will probably not come unexpectedly and you'll have to sit there as the plane falls for seconds or even minutes and think about how you are certainly about to die.

No feeling can be worse than witnessing your inevitable fate and being completely helpless and hopeless about it.

The air traffic controller who was on duty for the 2nd crash, was stabbed to death a couple of years later in front of his wife and kids by a Russian citizen whose 2 kids died in the collision. The murderer served less than 4 years in prison and was released back home to Russia where he was hailed as a hero and given medals.