EMBRAER EMB-500SAGE AVIATION LLC

Windows: 09:40:00–09:49:43, 10:20:28–10:41:54 · basis: recorder pressure altitude below 10,000 ft. Candidate non-pertinent lines below are a first reading for the investigator, not a finding; “@” marks the Board's own non-pertinent-word notation.

• 09:46:40.4FO“yeah. usually * this * corridor is not the greatest along in here. but. my flying experience.”
• 09:46:49.7FO“...not in this small of a plane but no I'm just talking about just generally in ah...”
• 09:46:56.2FO“a good sh. a good bit between here and D-C is usually...kind of bumpy.”
• 10:35:42.5CA“ah we're kind of in and out of the clouds here.”
• 10:39:21.6CA“kay. so your job is to find the airport.”
• 10:39:26.1CA“just look straight ahead and say airport in sight [chuckling].”

Delivery and physiological notes the transcribers added in brackets, plus # expletives. 23 words are marked unintelligible (*).

• stammer15:20:56.6OB“two twent-- [stammer] R-D-U is two twenty.”
• exhale15:23:54.3CA“lights on. [exhale]”
• exhale15:27:08.4CA“so. [exhale]. how far are we past the airport?”
• mumbling, unintelligible15:27:18.5CA“[mumbling, unintelligible].”
• #15:27:22.8CA“[chuckle] okay. I was planning scaring the # out of the people who were there [chuckling].”
• #15:27:58.6CA“[inhale] #.”
• #15:28:15.8OB“#. we're going down @. [chuckle]”
• exhale09:45:10.5CA“set [exhale].”
• sound of sneeze or cough09:56:32.8◦“[sound of sneeze or cough]”
• sound of two coughs or sneeze09:56:50.3FO“[sound of two coughs or sneeze]”
• stammer10:05:25.1CA“so I don't you know [stammer] much about this stuff? about this? but this is really. you know these systems are really nice. like. they told us to cross at a certain altitude. so this will calculate. so when we get to there it will actually start the airplane down so we'll cross that right at fifteen thousand.”
• sound of exhale10:23:52.2CA“[sound of exhale]”
• loud inhale and exhale10:41:51.1◦“[loud inhale and exhale]”

• 194 s10:31:28.5 → 10:34:42.0in sterile window
• 155 s14:55:48.4 → 14:58:23.2
• 127 s10:08:28.5 → 10:10:35.6
• 126 s10:26:24.6 → 10:28:30.8in sterile window
• 122 s10:24:22.3 → 10:26:24.2in sterile window
• 118 s09:49:02.9 → 09:51:00.5
• 111 s09:53:00.9 → 09:54:51.9
• 102 s14:51:15.1 → 14:52:56.8

Hedged or questioning lines from one pilot in the critical window, with the other pilot’s next words.

None found in the window.

• 14:36:57.8◦[sound of c-chord, similar to altitude alerter]
  → no crew words within 5 s
• 14:42:47.2◦[sound of c-chord, similar to altitude alerter]
  → no crew words within 5 s
• 15:10:16.7◦[sound of c-chord, similar to altitude alerter]
  → no crew words within 5 s
• 15:17:18.9◦[sound of c-chord, similar to altitude alerter]
  → 2.7 s later: 15:17:21.6OB“variable at zero six.”
• 15:18:08.3◦[sound of c-chord, similar to altitude alerter]
  → 1.1 s later: 15:18:09.4CA“okay. down to twelve. ah zero juliet tango.”
• 15:21:29.3◦[sound of c-chord, similar to altitude alerter]
  → no crew words within 5 s
• 15:24:06.7◦[sound of c-chord, similar to altitude alerter]
  → 1.8 s later: 15:24:08.5CA“...Unicom. I'm gonna...”
• 15:24:28.7◦autopilot. [similar to autopilot disconnect]
  → no crew words within 5 s
• 15:24:42.5◦[sound of c-chord, similar to altitude alerter][sound of c-chord, similar to altitude alerter]
  → 4.4 s later: 15:24:46.9CA“ah say again for Chapel Hill.”
• 15:26:02.8◦sink rate.
  → 2.1 s later: 15:26:04.9OB“ah.”
• 15:26:08.0◦sink rate.
  → 2.1 s later: 15:26:10.1OB“ah over there I think.”
• 09:47:32.4◦autopilot. [similar to autopilot disconnect]
  → 0.9 s later: 09:47:33.3CA“oh.”
• 09:54:51.9◦[sound of c-chord, similar to altitude alerter]
  → no crew words within 5 s
• 09:58:35.5◦[sound of c-chord, similar to altitude alerter]
  → no crew words within 5 s
• 10:15:15.4◦[sound of c-chord, similar to altitude alerter]
  → no crew words within 5 s
• 10:23:24.1◦[sound of c-chord, similar to altitude alerter]
  → no crew words within 5 s
• 10:29:02.0◦[sound of c-chord, similar to altitude alerter]
  → no crew words within 5 s
• 10:30:22.0◦[sound of c-chord, similar to altitude alerter]
  → no crew words within 5 s
• 10:38:33.8◦[sound of c-chord, similar to altitude alerter] [sound of c- chord, similar to altitude alerter]
  → no crew words within 5 s
• 10:41:55.4◦[sound of loud noise, similar to impact]
  → no crew words within 5 s

• 14:32:45.0CA“what d'ya--what does that mean?”
• 14:32:51.6CA“this. what does that mean?”
• 14:39:46.6CA“what?”
• 14:43:03.8CA“what?”
• 14:47:36.3CA“about what?”
• 14:48:04.3CA“do you want to listen to what the weather is?”
• 14:48:23.6CA“what?”
• 14:53:58.3CA“what's variable zero four?”
• 14:58:23.2CA“what's the wind at ah Raleigh?”
• 14:58:30.0CA“ten at ten. what does that mean?”
• 15:03:24.6CA“winds are missing?”
• 15:03:26.5CA“at Chapel Hill?”
• +18 more

“Not in transcript” never means “not said”: a line may be unintelligible, or the recording may not cover that phase.