Boeing 757American Airlines
453 lines · 15:56:06.2 – 17:51:39.5 · New York, NY, 2018-09-06
- 17:31:55.0CAM-?*** maintenance. can I pick up the logbook please?
- 17:36:16.9CAM-1and uh about seven ***.
- 17:43:31.1CAM[sound of unintelligible background conversation]
- 17:45:09.4CAM[sound of unintelligible background conversation]
- 17:50:12.7CAM-1tell me exactly **. @? ***.
- 17:50:37.0CAM-1**.
- 17:50:59.0CAM-1okay. I've got the guys coming down. we're gonna pull the circuit breaker. ** I thought it was so obvious but I'm not * right now. ** hold on. do me a favor. where's the C-V-R? where's the— the tape? I looked up there I didn't see anything. I don't have my glasses. so I thought it was collared too . I thought it was white also. okay after we do that what else do you want? okay now here's a question on— and— oh okay I see what you're talking about. I thought you meant about the event. okay so we write that up and then—
- 17:51:16.2CAM-2*. DCA18LA285 Time and Intra-Aircraft Communication Time and Over-the-Air Communication Source Source
- 17:51:34.6CAM[sound of unintelligible background conversation]
- 17:51:39.5CAM[sound similar to circuit breaker being pulled and power interruption]
Crew communication
453 lines readobservations a human-factors reviewer takes from a transcript — the sterile cockpit, the Board's own notations, rhythm, CRM markers. Not emotions, not scores: the affect is in the audio, and the audio is sealedWindows: 09:25:00–09:32:57, 16:48:41–17:01:19 · 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.
- 16:51:59.7“let— let uh @ take care of that.”@
- 16:55:53.4“I came out of VNAV for a moment. I'm going to wait til we get down back on— on okay. LNAV's back on. okay?”
- 16:56:11.1“yeah no bleeding and maybe a possible fracture on a leg. ***.”
- 16:56:50.7“I've got everything turned off. we're too high.”
- 16:57:21.5“do me a favor. cycle all the stuff put it back on please.”
Delivery and physiological notes the transcribers added in brackets, plus # expletives. 81 words are marked unintelligible (*).
- sound similar to cockpit door closing16:40:52.1“[sound similar to cockpit door closing]”
- sound similar to cockpit door closing16:42:40.8“[sound similar to cockpit door closing]”
- sound similar to yawn16:43:34.5“thirty one * [sound similar to yawn].”
- #16:47:31.1“oh #.”
- #16:47:52.0“#.”
- automated voice16:57:06.5“twenty five hundred. [automated voice]”
- sound of sigh16:57:18.9“[sound of sigh]”
- automated voice16:59:02.5“one thousand. [automated voice]”
- automated voice16:59:52.9“five hundred. [automated voice]”
- automated voice17:00:21.9“one hundred. [automated voice]”
- automated voice17:00:25.5“fifty. [automated voice]”
- automated voice17:00:26.5“forty. [automated voice]”
- automated voice17:00:27.6“thirty. [automated voice]”
- automated voice17:00:28.8“twenty. [automated voice]”
- automated voice17:00:30.1“ten. [automated voice]”
- #17:05:46.9“alright listen I'm— I am now partially calmed down. when we get in there there's a lot of # that's going to happen. if it's all right with you I'd like to hear what happened right now because when we get in there people are going to be knocking on the door expecting us to come out. are you okay with telling me what you saw and what happened?”
- #17:08:26.9“I didn't turn anything off. I didn't turn anything off until we got in that # just now on the approach.”
- 2570 s15:56:06.2 → 16:38:56.2
- 434 s17:36:16.9 → 17:43:31.1
- 303 s17:45:09.4 → 17:50:12.7
- 262 s17:31:55.0 → 17:36:16.9
- 224 s17:28:10.8 → 17:31:55.0
- 98 s17:43:31.1 → 17:45:09.4
- 93 s17:14:37.5 → 17:16:10.4
- 84 s17:23:49.9 → 17:25:13.5
Hedged or questioning lines from one pilot in the critical window, with the other pilot’s next words.
- 16:49:58.5“somebody I think the flight attendant went down in the back.”→ 16:50:01.7“she alright? DCA18LA285 Time and Intra-Aircraft Communication Time and Over-the-Air Communication Source Source”
- 16:56:17.3“why is it doing it?”→ 16:56:27.6“verified.”
- 17:50:59.0“okay. I've got the guys coming down. we're gonna pull the circuit breaker. ** I thought it was so obvious but I'm not * right now. ** hold on. do me a favor. where's the C-V-R? where's the— the tape? I looked up there I didn't see anything. I don't have my glasses. so I thought it was collared too . I thought it was white also. okay after we do that what else do you want? okay now here's a question on— and— oh okay I see what you're talking about. I thought you meant about the event. okay so we write that up and then—”→ 17:51:16.2“*. DCA18LA285 Time and Intra-Aircraft Communication Time and Over-the-Air Communication Source Source”
- 16:47:42.7[sound of autopilot disconnect]→ no crew words within 5 s
- 16:57:43.6[sound of configuration warning]→ no crew words within 5 s
- 16:40:50.5“just wake up?”
- 16:48:00.2“I wonder why that kicked off?”
- 16:49:03.4“straight ahead to three thousand on the missed approach. anybody else have anything else for this approach?”
- 16:49:49.5“really?”
- 16:56:17.3“why is it doing it?”
- 17:03:02.8“@?”
- 17:03:34.7“and what's you— what's your point?”
- 17:05:46.9“alright listen I'm— I am now partially calmed down. when we get in there there's a lot of # that's going to happen. if it's all right with you I'd like to hear what happened right now because when we get in there people are going to be knocking on the door expecting us to come out. are you okay with telling me what you saw and what happened?”
- 17:06:36.9“okay so anyway we're doing the approach— we're doing uh the approach. you said 'watch your airspeed' and then you told me to do something. did you say push the nose over?”
- 17:07:17.9“okay. uh what else did you see? I— I did not see a blinker for speed. for slow speed. I did not see any blinker for slow speed. did anybody else see that?”
- 17:07:30.2“okay so anyways you said that— I clicked everything off and tried to get— and tried to get— pick up some speed. push the power up. anything else you want to add on right now?”
- 17:09:12.2“cleared in? cleared in guy?”
- +2 more
“Not in transcript” never means “not said”: a line may be unintelligible, or the recording may not cover that phase.
| Speaker | words | questions | hedges | exclamations | expletives | checklists | non-pertinent lines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Captain | 2,330 | 32 | 16 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 35 |
| First officer | 774 | 36 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Observer / jumpseat | 517 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
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