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That video is really misleading, it's missing a significant chunk (several minutes) of the recording in the middle. The plane, carrying 94 passengers and six crew members, had been travelling from Port Elizabeth in South Africa to OR Tambo International airport on Monday morning when the incident happened. What is the worst CVR you have ever heard on Air Crash Investigation for me (well one of them) it has to be LAPA 3142 where the crew was talking about dinner their romantic lives and they were smoking in the cockpit!!!!
BA Comair plane crash lands after landing gear 'collapses' on runway OR Tambo airport in Johannesburg . Please continue to respect all commenters and create constructive debates. “We can confirm that all passengers and crew safely disembarked with no reported injuries. This was my first thought. Southwest Airlines Flight 1248 where the pilot said "I picked a bad day to stop sniffin' glue" shortly before veering of the runway and killing a kid. On 9 January 1997, Comair flight 3272 is on final approach to Detroit Metropolitan Airport when the plane suddenly spirals out of control and crashes nose first into the ground not far away from the runway. One eye-witness, Renaldo Gouws, who appeared to be on the flight, wrote on Facebook that the plane had a “massive landing gear failure and engine caught fire". Air Crash Investigation-Deadly Myth. Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. The plane was forced to fly with its gear extended due to a missing nut and a series of crew, management, and manufacturer errors leads to the eventual crash landing in Vienna. Neither pilot specifically called for the approach checklist. What a boob!
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There's an article about the crash somewhere that has more of the transcript. The crew is deadpan calm and tries their best to recover the airplane for the entire 14 seconds, and it's just chilling to hear the captain admit "we're gonna fucking die" right before impact.