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After a plane crash, perhaps the only thing more shocking than the debris and pieces left,
is the black box recording.
It’s kind of like 911 calls except for one tiny detail, these people generally have no
hope left.
Because of the nature of this video, viewer discretion is advised, and our list is in
no specific order of importance and our hearts go out to those who were impacted by these
disasters.
Here are 10 last airplane blackbox recordings.
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10.
Western Airlines Flight 2605 This flight, also known as the “Night Owl”
was going from LA to Mexico City on Halloween, 1979.
The crash that followed is the third deadliest aviation accident on Mexican soil.
It happened just months after another famous plane crash, the American Airlines Flight
191, so after this, trust in this form of transportation was probably quite low.
To add, just a month later, Air New Zealand Flight 901 crashed in Antartica.
The black box recording for the crash is so sad that, well, I’ll let you hear for yourself.
To think that all of this happened just because there was a confusion about which
runway to land on.
Of the 88 people on board, 72 were killed in the crash.
9.
Adam Air Flight 574 This flight was a regular domestic route between
Surabaya and Manado in Indonesia.
On New Year’s Day in 2007, about 100 people died after it crashed.
It appears the pilots were having issues troubleshooting the inertial navigation system and unknowingly
disconnected the autopilot.
Thanks to the black box, we can now listen to those last moments and learn from it.
As a
result of this crash, and thanks to other flights crashing, Indonesian Aviation safety
ratings have gone down and at one point their airlines were banned from Europe altogether.
It’s no wonder the airline went bankrupt.
8.
Tu-154 It was April 10th, 2010, and a Polish Air
Force plane was flying above Russia when it crashed near Smolensk, killing everyone on
board.
It was no regular flight either, the President of Poland and his wife were both on board,
as was the former president, the Chief of the Polish General Staff, The President of
the National Bank of Poland, 18 members of Parliament, senior members of the clergy,
relatives of the victims from a recent massacre, and a few military officers and officials.
If you needed a recipe for a devastating loss, this one would actually be too much.
I mean, just listen The plane crashed while attempting to land in thick
fog.
Since there were so many important people on board, several conspiracy theories arose,
but nothing has been confirmed.
7.
Air Florida Flight 90 Any audio that includes the words “We’re
going down” is bound to break your heart.
Especially when “down” means into a bridge on the Potomac River.
This flight was supposed to go from DC to Ft Lauderdale, stopping in Tampa.
However, on this January day in 1982, they weren’t going to get far at all.
Just miles from the white house, the plane crashed into the 14th St Bridge.
On the way down it hit several vehicles and by the time the crash was done, dozens had
died.
Listen as the pilots realized the fate that awaited them.
After studies were done, it was determined that the pilots had failed to switch
on ice protection systems on the engines.
They made some bad decisions, but they certainly didn’t deserve to die.
6.
Delta Airlines Flight 191 Lockheed L-1011-1 Tri Star
This Delta Airlines flight on August 2nd, 1985, was scheduled to land in LA after taking
off from Ft.
Lauderdale.
However, if they’re on this list, it clearly didn’t happen.
The plane struck down over a mile before the runway, hitting a car and two water tanks.
In the process, 137 people died and 28 were injured.
This, as we’ve seen with others, was also pilot error, as the crew decided to fly through
a thunderstorm and encountered a microburst of rain.
Listen to their surprise as a normal approach to a runway turns deadly.
5.
United Airlines Flight 93 Our first and only hijacking on this list.
This plane, unlike the others, did not go down due to pilot error, but instead forced
down by Al-Qaeda terrorists, in which many civilians ended up dying from that day.
It was flying on September 11, 2001, from Newark to San Francisco, and was part of the
group of flights hijacked.
The plane crashed in Pennsylvania and killed all 44 people on board.
The flight was interrupted 46 minutes after takeoff and they turned the plane around back
to the East Coast.
Later, other instigators of the attack claimed the target was the Capitol Building, however,
several passengers fought the hijackers and the struggle led to the plane crashing into
a field.
a temporary memorial stands near the crash site today.
4.
Flying Tiger Line Flight 66 On February 19th, 1989, this Boeing 747, which
was scheduled for an international cargo flight, crashed into the side of a hill some 6 miles
away from its final approach.
The plane was 10 years old at the time and saw 9,000 flight cycles and 34,000 airframe
hours.
Although, maintenance nor mechanical failure had anything to do with the plane going down
and killing the 4 crew members.
Instead, gross negligence from both the First Officer, who claimed he didn't have the approach
plate in front of him, and the Second Officer, who was 70 years old and needed a magnifying
glass to read anything, is what doomed this flight from the start.
The last words ever recorded from the officers was: "Oh, I've got a hundred feet on the - shit!"
3.
Delta Air Lines Flight 1141 Delta Air Lines Flight 1141 was a scheduled
domestic passenger flight between Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas and Salt Lake City, Utah, that
crash during takeoff on August 31, 1988, killing 14 of the 108 people on board and injuring
76 others.
It was only 22 seconds from takeoff to ground impact, which was caused by a number of issues,
including pilot error and Delta Air Lines' management no providing proper training.
Medical examinations determined that all but one of the 14 fatalities were due to smoke
inhalation, while one passenger had successfully exited the aircraft, but re-entered to assist
his wife, who was trapped inside.
From his severe burns, he died 11 days later at the hospital.
This is the last audio recording from that crash.
2.
Malaysia Airlines MH17 A flight to Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam was
shot down over Ukraine, killing everyone on board on July 17th, 2014.
After investigation, it was concluded that the weapon responsible was a Pro-Russian separatist-sent
missile.
For this flight, the black box recording is quite normal, dropping off after a normal
“Goodnight Malaysian 3-7-0”, but a rather dark recording was released of the conversation
that went down after the rebels shot the plane down and realized they’d made the mistake
of killing a lot of civilians.
The worst part is when they then blame them for having flown in a “war zone”.
1.
US Airways Flight 1549 This Airbus A320 took off from New York and
in the ascension hit a flock of geese near George Washington Bridge.
This led to it losing its engine power and the pilots made a decision to glide the plane
into a ditch in the Hudson River.
Here’s the audio we kept from that day which describes the events with a conversation between
the control tower and
the pilots.
Luckily this is one of the cases that give us hope.
First, because the pilots did exactly what they were supposed to, and second because
as a result of that, everybody lived!
It actually went into history as the “Miracle on the Hudson”, and the pilots and crew
received medals for their heroic achievement, and were depicted in the Clint Eastwood-directed
movie "Sully", starring Tom Hanks and Aaron Eckhart.