BOEING 757-236Federal Express Corporation
551 lines · 03:09:39.6 – 04:21:52.2 · Tulsa, OK, 2022-06-08
- 04:19:02.5HOT-2all right.
- 04:19:12.3HOT-2clear right.
- 04:19:41.8HOT-2[sigh]
- 04:20:02.2HOT-1those cans look like they are all right.
- 04:20:04.5HOT-2yup. they are on the other side of the line-foul line. got wands up.
- 04:20:18.1HOT-2you're clear on the right.
- 04:21:16.8HOT-1all right. parking brake is set and holding. ice is off. right engine is coming down.
- 04:21:23.8HOT-2[sound of mumbling sigh]
- 04:21:50.8CAM[sound of quad beeper]
- 04:21:52.2HOT-1power selected on. ice is off. left engine is coming down. 0421:52.2
Crew communication
551 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: 03:33:10–03:38:31, 04:02:20–04:13:25 · basis: recorder pressure altitude below 10,000 ft. Candidate non-pertinent lines below are a first reading for the investigator, not a finding.
- 03:35:54.8“I-D-W-E is the ...I-L-S.”
- 03:35:59.7“uhhhhh...I'm gonna change that guy...put him there...”
- 03:36:09.8“all right so there's (the spot) and then uhh the I-L-S.”
- 04:06:09.8“we are in what is known as popeye...or I-M-C.”
- 04:06:13.5“not quite even popeye we're just in the muck.”
- 04:06:29.0“that's probably terms you guys don't use in the air force.”
- 04:06:45.1“it's right there in that dark spot is where the airport is.”
- 04:07:13.3“well...you wanna go all the way out there?”
- 04:07:16.8“you wanna go all the way out uhh...?”
- 04:07:18.4“no we're not gonna go all the way out there...you can just call it...you can call it in sight now.”
- 04:07:34.0“we're gonna go a little bit farther than this though.”
- 04:12:29.1“feels like you're dragging it in a little bit. [sigh]”
Delivery and physiological notes the transcribers added in brackets, plus # expletives. 18 words are marked unintelligible (*).
- discussing weight and balance03:09:45.7“all right man one...eleven seventy (ninety/eighty) eight...fuel twenty five eight...**...cargo's light by about seven thousand pounds...**...aft C-G which I can tell you by looking how long the aleo2 is extended down there... [discussing weight and balance]”
- sound of sigh03:16:52.9“[sound of sigh]”
- sound of yawn03:18:53.5“[sound of yawn]”
- sound of breathing03:23:00.7“[sound of breathing]”
- sound of sigh03:23:47.2“[sound of sigh]”
- sound of sigh03:24:21.4“[sound of sigh]”
- sound of breathing03:26:36.0“[sound of breathing]”
- #03:27:05.7“I— I have...I almost ran over a guy one time...in a hurry…ya know…tired...um...he disconnected the towbar and had a problem hooking the thing back up to the tug to drive away...so it had been several minutes and uhh I turn on the landing light and I see these two dudes # go scrambling out it's like oh #...okay...yep...@ gonna slow her down.”
- electronic voice03:32:46.9“approaching one six left. [electronic voice]”
- electronic voice03:33:14.0“on runway one six left. [electronic voice]”
- sigh03:35:36.6“arright...[sigh]...let me get you the...”
- cough03:38:16.7“[cough]”
- sound of sigh03:43:48.5“gahhh...[sound of sigh]”
- sound of yawn03:44:49.6“[sound of yawn]”
- sound of sigh03:45:53.5“[sound of sigh]”
- sound of yawn03:46:35.8“[sound of yawn]”
- sound of yawn03:47:10.1“[sound of yawn]”
- sound of cough03:48:02.5“[sound of cough]”
- sound of yawn03:48:21.3“[sound of yawn]”
- sound of cough03:48:39.5“[sound of cough]”
- sound of cough03:50:22.4“[sound of cough]”
- sigh03:51:53.2“all right it looks like the action on the radar's that stuff over there...[sigh]”
- sound of cough03:52:11.8“[sound of cough]”
- sound of sniffle03:52:34.5“[sound of sniffle]”
- +47 more
- 141 s03:11:41.2 → 03:14:01.8
- 74 s03:10:27.2 → 03:11:41.2
- 74 s04:03:36.5 → 04:04:50.3in sterile window
- 72 s03:55:26.8 → 03:56:38.9
- 69 s03:31:02.1 → 03:32:11.3
- 65 s03:58:56.4 → 04:00:01.3
- 65 s03:39:29.2 → 03:40:33.7
- 64 s03:44:49.6 → 03:45:53.5
Hedged or questioning lines from one pilot in the critical window, with the other pilot’s next words.
- 04:03:24.8“uhhhh...what is that...one eight zero...”→ 04:03:32.6“that's lovely.”
- 04:12:05.9“a little bit of a tailwind up here it looks like.”→ 04:12:08.7“yeah you got seven knots.”
- 04:13:14.4“are we on the correct runway?”→ 04:13:16.7“one eight left?”
- 04:13:18.4“what the #.”→ 04:13:25.6“oh my God.”
- 04:17:54.8“I don't like telling you what I am gonna to put in my report because I'd rather the A-SAP committee get two independent versions of what happened.”→ 04:18:03.8“copy.”
- 03:23:38.9copy that clear to push and pull up agea— abeam gate PUSH sixteen...go ahead and release your brakes.→ no crew words within 5 s
- 03:36:58.5[altitude alert]→ no crew words within 5 s
- 03:48:52.4[altitude alert]→ 1.5 s later: 03:48:53.9“thirty for thirty one.”
- 04:07:22.2[altitude alert]→ 1.7 s later: 04:07:23.9“three point five for two point five.”
- 04:11:29.8one thousand. [electronic voice]→ 0.6 s later: 04:11:30.4“if I can add five.”
- 04:12:13.6five hundred. [electronic voice]→ 1 s later: 04:12:14.6“you're stable. cleared to land one eight left.”
- 04:12:46.8one hundred. [electronic voice]→ no crew words within 5 s
- 04:12:48.3fifty. [electronic voice]→ no crew words within 5 s
- 04:12:48.9forty. [electronic voice]→ no crew words within 5 s
- 04:12:49.8thirty. [electronic voice]→ no crew words within 5 s
- 04:12:50.7twenty. [electronic voice]→ 4.7 s later: 04:12:55.4“spoilers deployed.”
- 04:12:51.7ten. [electronic voice]→ 3.7 s later: 04:12:55.4“spoilers deployed.”
- 03:19:12.8“you thinks methinks?”
- 04:11:28.1“twenty eight maybe?”
- 04:15:14.6“how did we # that up?”
“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 | 1,099 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 15 |
| First officer | 1,290 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 15 |
| Observer / jumpseat | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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