CVR transcript Aeroflot Flight 9981 - 08 OCT 1996
Cockpit voice recorder transcript of the October 8, 1996 crash of a Aeroflot An-124 (Flight 9981) Turin, Italy.
Source: English translation of Italian transcript of the CVR, reported on VOLARE, year XIV, n. 155. CVR transcript provided by Enrico Zaffiri.
Source: English translation of Italian transcript of the CVR, reported on VOLARE, year XIV, n. 155. CVR transcript provided by Enrico Zaffiri.
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Furthermore, this transcript is made available for educational purposes, so the reader is encouraged to read the accident description associated with the transcripts for better understanding of the circumstances.
Furthermore, this transcript is made available for educational purposes, so the reader is encouraged to read the accident description associated with the transcripts for better understanding of the circumstances.
Legenda:
TWR: Turin Tower
CAPT: captain
PIL: Co-pilot
F/E: Flight Engineer
NAV: navigator
RAD: radio operator
unk: voice unknown
[...]: phrases included in square brackets are integration for better clarity.
CAPT: captain
PIL: Co-pilot
F/E: Flight Engineer
NAV: navigator
RAD: radio operator
unk: voice unknown
[...]: phrases included in square brackets are integration for better clarity.
| time to crash | source | content |
|---|---|---|
| 2:11 | NAV | Distance five kilometers. |
| 1:57 | NAV | Four. |
| 1:46 | NAV | Descent... |
| 1:45 | PIL | Let's put on the wipers, fine tune them...your control. |
| 1:41 | NAV | Distance three, height one-fifty [meters AGL]...Descending: hold four meters [per second, vertical speed]. |
| 1:33 | NAV | Two. |
| 1:32 | CAPT | All right: we're entering the glide path. |
| 1:30 | NAV | Well... (sound of Middle Marker tone) |
| 1:28 | NAV | Well, well. |
| 1:23 | CAPT | I've got control. |
| 1:21 | NAV | One and a half...speed two-thirty...One hundred meters. |
| 1:15 | PIL | A little lower. |
| 1:11 | NAV | Radioaltimeter eighty...seventy...sixty (sound of ground proximity warning) |
| 1:06 | NAV | Fifty...Two hundred and forty. |
| 1:03 | PIL | No, let's...go around. |
| 1:02 | NAV | Thirty. |
| 1:01 | CAPT | Why are we going around ? |
| 1:01 | NAV | Twenty. |
| 1:00 | PIL | No, no ! |
| 1:00 | CAPT | Idle ! |
| 0:57 | NAV | Ten...eight...six... |
| 0:53 | PIL | No, let's...now go around ! |
| 0:52 | NAV | Four...three... |
| 0:50 | PIL | Runway's there...There's the runway... |
| 0:48 | PIL | Do you see the runway's end ? |
| 0:47 | CAPT | So better to go around... |
| 0:46 | F/E | Reverse failed ! |
| 0:44 | CAPT | We're going around ! |
| 0:43 | F/E | It has come out "reverse failure |
| 0:42 | PIL | Right. |
| 0:41 | CAPT | Tell them "go around |
| 0:37 | PIL | Go around ! |
| 0:34 | RAD | 9981, we go around...uh...due to low visibility... |
| 0:30 | F/E | The engines are not spooling up ! |
| 0:27 | TWR | Roger, 9981, call Torino radar one-two-one decimal one. |
| 0:25 | CAPT | Gear up. |
| 0:22 | NAV | Speed ! |
| 0:20 | RAD; NAV | Roger, one-two-one point one. Speed is decreasing ! |
| 0:18 | F/E | So, all's right. |
| 0:16 | NAV | Sp-e-e-d... |
| 0:15 | F/E | Stop moving [throttles] sharply ! Spool up ! |
| 0:14 | F/E | Spool up ! |
| 0:12 | NAV | Speed's decreasing ! |
| 0:11 | Sound of AOA warning. | |
| 0:10 | F/E | All right now...Spooling up. |
| 0:08 | NAV | Speed ! |
| 0:07 | F/E | Keep 'em spooled up ! |
| 0:05 | F/E | Spool up...spool up...spool up ! |
| 0:03 | unk | What ? |
| 0:02 | NAV | Speed...Speed is decreasing ! |
| 0:00 | Noise of crash |