Landing on the Wrong Runway (Western Airlines Flight 2605) - DISASTER BREAKDOWN
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The year of 1979, to be honest, was a terrible year for one of the world’s Largest passenger plane. The Douglas DC10, even before 1979 suffered multiple hull loses and even for a time, held the accolade of being the aircraft involved in the deadliest air disaster to have occurred at that time. It’s a plane which certainly has a divided history. It’s pilots loved the plane. Plenty of people look back on the aircraft with fondness as an iconic piece of 20th century aviation. On the other hand, it had developed a reputation among passengers and the media due to its string of high profile incidents. 1979 was the plane’s deadliest year. Whether or not this reputation was warranted is up for debate. Because as with the case of this accident, there really wasn’t any wrong with the plane. Still, Western Airlines Flight 2605 contributed to that long list of accidents on October 31st, 1979.
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I've heard plenty of CVR's before, but this one is truly chilling. Hearing the captain go into hysterics like that was horrifying.
The final seconds of the CVR from this incident is chilling.
23 left was closed, but the ILS was still functioning? My god this was just a matter of when and not if. Planes lining up on 23 left then side stepping to 23 right. What a nightmare
Reading from the comments that the CVR was played on the news after the crash is just horrible, I didn't know that even though I've heard the recording before. Imagine losing your loved-one in a crash, and as if that wasn't painful enough, you'd hear their last moments of sheer terror on the damn TV while trying to grieve. Trauma upon trauma.
I saw a plane crash documentary where an NTSB investigator said that pilots who listen to crash tapes (generally to identify the voices of the pilots from the crashed plane, so the NTSB know who is who -- the NTSB version of going to the morgue to ID a body) generally quit flying within two years. That tape made it easy to understand why that's the case.
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16 people survived. I didn't expect anyone to survive that.
Thanks for warning us about the CVR. It's a truly terrifying piece of audio, and it's not for the faint of heart.
The DC-10 was an amazing widebody plane for its time. I flew on them countless times in the 1970s and 1980s, but we never knew about the cargo door problems, or any of the other dangers. My family flew to Mexico on a DC-10 in 1975 and we had a great time. Ignorance is bliss, as they say. This crash has probably the most haunting CVR recording in history.
That CVR was definitely chilling.
Out of all the CVR recordings that have been officially released, this is by far the most terrifying to listen to. The only other one that could surpass it would be GermanWings flight 9525 which reportedly captured the screams of the terrified passengers just prior to the crash.
Thank you for both including disturbing CVR recording, as well as giving a warning for their content. I usually listen to them, but some days I just don't have the stomach to listen to something so grim or helpless.
I was working for western when this happened. Larry Roundtree was a good friend of mine. We went to high school together. I still think about him to this day. RIP Buddy
Although this is a textbook case of pilot error and Charlie made a lot of errors that contributed to this disaster, hearing him scream for his life at the end of the CVR is some of the most chilling stuff I have heard during my lifetime. I've listened to that incredibly tragic CVR clip myself multiple times, and it never fails to make my blood run ice cold.
The CVR of this crash is chilling, I listened to it awhile ago. Truely horrible! Wish I'd never heard it 😟 Thank you for doing this one through.
I always feel safe whenever I went on board a plane with older pilots...usually just looking at their greying/white hair alone will instantly calm my nerves. And yes, my whole life I always found that older pilots gave me the smoothest flights and softest landings.
The weird thing is, it sounds like you can almost hear more voices in the last milliseconds of the CVR. Eduardo Valenciana suggests that it’s the sound of the first class cabin coming closer to the CAM as it continues to record milliseconds after impact, as the front cabin crunches into the cockpit…he may be right.
Oh god, THIS cockpit voice recording. Somehow, the other infamous CVRs, like Aeropéru 603 or Air Florida 90, pale in comparison to the sheer terror that is audible in THIS one. This is the only one that has truly made me panic.
I think of all the cvr recordings I've listened to I've always regarded this one as the most haunting. Those panicked screams as the crew saw the building come into view was just horrifying when I first heard it