Saddest pilots last words part 2

[thejanitor]

When the pilot is verbally panicking you are really screwed

[davidca]

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

[WaterCrane]

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.

[b.t.]

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

[badcompany-ws]

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

[glenellis]

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.

[AppalachianChaplin]

"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.

[rrickyspanish]

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

[jumboJetPilot]

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.

[jessiebugg]

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

[doughooks]

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.

[nathangaming.]

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

[nktdbgw]

man these are brutal. for a while it seemed like the full recordings were never going to be available to the public and I wish it stayed that way! You aren't just hearing fear and a quick death in a lot of these...some of them are the cockpit breaking apart and crushing the pilots while still alive. Rest in peace aviators

[uli]

The fact that everyone on DHL plane were still alive trying to recover, and half of the Tupolev including the pilots were alive as well, suffocating and maybe in pain because of eardrum damage, but very aware they were done. So creepy.

[LMM]

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.”

[horseradish]

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.

[犬の大将]

I have seen the ACI episode Regarding the mid air collision over Uberlingen. This is the very first time that I’ve heard the cockpit voice recorder. I can’t help but send my heart out to the Russians. They were alive all the way until they hit the ground. All the children who died. And of course, I cannot forget the heroics of the DHL crew. They fought to keep their airplane airborne for as long as they could. The number of lives they saved on the ground because they fought back.

[Weaselthebassist]

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.

[mylife]

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.

[abetterworld]

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