Cockpit Voice Recorder - Air Florida Flight 90 Crash

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Air Florida Flight 90 was an Air Florida flight of a Boeing 737 airliner that crashed into the 14th Street Bridge across the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. on January 13, 1982 immediately after takeoff in a severe snowstorm. The accident claimed the lives of 78 people, including four motorists on the 14th Street Bridge. However, a few survivors from the shattered aircraft were rescued from the icy river by a combination of heroic efforts of civilians and professionals. Some of that heroism was commended during President Ronald Reagan's State of the Union speech a few days later. The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the cause of the accident was pilot error. The pilots failed to switch on the engines' internal anti-icing equipment, used reverse thrust in a snow storm prior to take-off, and failed to abort takeoff per FAA regulations even after detecting a power problem while taxiing, and visually identifying ice and snow buildup on the wings.

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• cvr
• CVr
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• cockpit
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• recorder
• air
• florida
• flight
• 90
• plane
• crash
• 1982
• air Florida
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• advised

[Battle4MiddleEarth]

why are they making popcorn at a time like this?

[Fanik8]

haunting

[ingaenterprise13]

What amazes me is that there voices didn't have a tone of fear. At the very end, when he says "I know!" is one of frustration...Wow... superb pilots.

[rockymountainrandom]

@choriso00 How is this funny?

[rockymountainrandom]

"We're going down, Larry."

"I know!"

That's so sad, there was a just split second between that exchange of dialogue and the explosion noise...and in that split second they both must of had frightening thoughts running through their heads...a split second to say goodbye to the world and prepare themselves. :( R.I.P. Hope they internally made peace with the world.

[atikker]

@Battle4MiddleEarth Not cool. 

[Springbok295]

If only they had firewalled the engines.

[GinoRc]

@choriso00

lol?

dude...

[choriso00]

Lol

[glennbeckfan10]

@dratelectasis

Did I solicit your opinion ? you foul-mouthed prole. What does 'accidents don't happen for one reason in particular' mean? There was an icing issue that these morons failed to address or recognize. They made multiple mistakes, and an intelligent person can tell from the multiple errors they made and from how dumb they sound on this tape that these pilots were incompetent morons.

[dratelectasis]

@glennbeckfan10 Hey you fuck. People died on this flight. You want to put all the blame on the pilots? Accidents don't happen for one reason in particular. There are many factors involved that all coalesce. There was an icing issue on the plane that aided in the crash. I would love to see you try and fly a plane when it's almost completely aerodynamically impossible to fly. Have some fucking respect for christ sakes.

[glennbeckfan10]

@ststephens97

He flew like Gomer Pyle too. Morons like these are why I avoid air travel. So sad these people entrusted their lives with two 30 something bumbling hicks, like these two "pilots".