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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.

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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.
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
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