This is an excerpt taken from the official NTSB transcript of Flight 261, which crashed on January 31, 2000, off the coast of California. This excerpt contains an exchange between Captain Ted Thompson and First Officer William Tansky and the Los Angeles Route Traffic Control Center (LAX-CTR).
| 4:09:55 p.m. | Thompson: Center, Alaska two-sixty-one. We are, uh, in a dive here, and I've lost control, vertical pitch. |
| 4:10:33 | Thompson: Yea, we got it back under control here. |
| 4:11:43 | Tansky: Whatever we did is no good. Don't do that again... |
| 4:11:44 | Thompson: Yea, no, it went down. It went full nose down. |
| 4:11:48 | Tansky: Uh, it's a lot worse than it was? |
| 4:11:50 | Thompson: Yea. Yea. We're in much worse shape now. |
| 4:14:12 | Public address: Folks, we have had a flight-control problem up front here, we're working on it. |
| 4:15:19 | Flight 261 to LAX-CTR: L.A., Alaska two-sixty-one. We're with you, we're at twenty-two-five [22,500 feet]. We have a jammed stabilizer and we're maintaining altitude with difficulty... |
| 4:15:36 | LAX-CTR: Alaska two-sixty-one, L.A center. Roger, um, you're cleared to Los Angeles Airport via present position... |
| 4:17:09 | Flight attendant: Okay, we had like a big bang back there. |
| 4:17:15 | Thompson: I think the [stabilizer] trim is broke. |
| 4:19:36 | Extremely loud noise |
| 4:19:43 | Tansky: Mayday |
| 4:19:54 | Thompson: Okay, we are inverted, and now we gotta get it. |
| 4:20:04 | Thompson: Push, push, push...push the blue side up. Push... |
| 4:20:14 | Tansky: I'm pushing. |
| 4:20:16 | Thompson: Okay, now let's kick rudder. Left rudder, left rudder. |
| 4:20:18 | Tansky: I can't reach it. |
| 4:20:20 | Thompson: Okay. Right rudder, right rudder. |
| 4:20:25 | Thompson: Are we flying? We're flying, we're flying. Tell 'em what we're doing. |
| 4:20:33 | Tansky: Oh, yeah. Let me get... |
| 4:20:38 | Thompson: Gotta get it over again. At least upside down we're flying. |
| 4:20:54 | Thompson: Speedbrakes |
| 4:20:55 | Tansky: Got it. |
| 4:20:56 | Thompson: Ah, here we go. |
| 4:20:57 | End of recording |
Click here to read the full transcript (PDF) of Flight 261.
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rjb says: the full PDF transcript starts off slow, there is lots of shit dealing with the opening of the black box, I skipped most of that, also there may be a bit too much tech. jargon throughout but you can feel most of it, the gist--but besides that it reads like a thriller, which, I guess it genuinely is. By reading it I sickened myself. The pilots tried buddies. I maybe have just wrecked the ending by posting it above, but fuck, it's not like anyone besides myself would actually attempt the full transcript.
I hate flying (the dying).
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