I had to look it up, you’re not kidding. The pilot literally just screams their decent rate (22,000 feet per minute) and bank (60°) a few times and then nothing.
Do not click this if you don’t want to hear someone panicking right before they die. If you are not in a good situation to handle that, this is not for you. You gain nothing from hearing it.
Kinda thinking the same thing, but at the same time, what was he supposed to say? He’s probably shaken during it too and you don’t want to say anything to incite more panic, or try to be comforting but miss the mark and waste their last seconds of life.
And more precise, she was the ‘pilot monitoring’ (PM) meaning she handled all the comm tasks and everything not related to actually flying the plane. The captain was pilot flying (PF)…
Everyone should look for Captain Steeeve on youtube. This man handles this incident with the utmost dignity and respect, only broadcasting the relevant part of the ATC audio, not the entire piece. That is safe for listening. You can feel his pain reviewing the incident.
It’s how level the wings are with the ground. 0° means the plane’s wings are perfectly level, 90° means one wing is pointing straight up and the other towards the ground.
Though their pitch (nose angle) was so steep the bank value was almost meaningless because the rotational axis was almost perpendicular to the ground. So it didn’t really refer to the actual bank angle as it meant “this situation we’re in right now is completely fucked, I’m panicking but hoping I’m missing something useful in my panic so just calling out information in case it’s the essential piece of info to a solution I can’t see right now”.
I had to look it up, you’re not kidding. The pilot literally just screams their decent rate (22,000 feet per minute) and bank (60°) a few times and then nothing.
3 comments about the audio and no link, shocking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqVFv7WAdJE
Do not click this if you don’t want to hear someone panicking right before they die. If you are not in a good situation to handle that, this is not for you. You gain nothing from hearing it.
Yeah cheers. Definitely not clicking that.
Appreciate the link. Chills to the bone for those pilots.
Look forward to the NTSB report. To all the dick heads in this thread trying to meme this or get political, fuck you.
Is it normal for ATC to be this emotionally detached?
Kinda thinking the same thing, but at the same time, what was he supposed to say? He’s probably shaken during it too and you don’t want to say anything to incite more panic, or try to be comforting but miss the mark and waste their last seconds of life.
Apparently she was only 20. Not that it would be less tragic if she was older.
She was the copilot.
The pilot was a 55 year old male.
And more precise, she was the ‘pilot monitoring’ (PM) meaning she handled all the comm tasks and everything not related to actually flying the plane. The captain was pilot flying (PF)…
Everyone should look for Captain Steeeve on youtube. This man handles this incident with the utmost dignity and respect, only broadcasting the relevant part of the ATC audio, not the entire piece. That is safe for listening. You can feel his pain reviewing the incident.
She was first officer, he was captain. They were both pilots.
What does bank 60 degrees mean? 60 degreees down from horizontal?
It’s how level the wings are with the ground. 0° means the plane’s wings are perfectly level, 90° means one wing is pointing straight up and the other towards the ground.
Though their pitch (nose angle) was so steep the bank value was almost meaningless because the rotational axis was almost perpendicular to the ground. So it didn’t really refer to the actual bank angle as it meant “this situation we’re in right now is completely fucked, I’m panicking but hoping I’m missing something useful in my panic so just calling out information in case it’s the essential piece of info to a solution I can’t see right now”.