Air Florida Flight 90 Cockpit Voice Recordings [Full Audio]

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On a snowy cold day on January 13, 1982 Air Florida flight 90 a Boeing 737-200 prepared to leave Washingtons Ronald Regan Airport for Fort Lauderdale -- Hollywood International Airport with a stop over at Tampa International Airport. After being delayed for hours ice began building up on the aircraft. As the pilots were finally given permition to leave the gate they used the 737's two thrust reversers to assist in pushing the jet back. However this would be fatal. This sucked snow and ice into the engines and put it onto the wing. The pilots who didn't have alot of experienced had no clue of the danger that would soon be coming. Flight 90 is then given permition for takeoff, even though their is visible ice on the wings of the 737. As the plane climbed through 300 feet the plane wasn't giving the ammount of power that required the plane to stay airborn. Moments later the plane along with its 79 passengers crashes into a bridge and then sinks into a river. Out of the 79 passengers only 5 survived.

The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the probable cause of the crash was pilot error, stating that the flight crew's failure to use engine anti-ice during ground operation and takeoff, their decision to take off with snow/ice on the airfoil surfaces of the aircraft, and the captain's failure to reject the takeoff during the early stage when his attention was called to anomalous engine instrument readings.

"Contributing to the accident were the prolonged ground delay between deicing and the receipt of ATC takeoff clearance during which the aircraft was exposed to continual precipitation, the known inherent pitch up characteristics of the B-737 aircraft when the leading edge is contaminated with even small amounts of snow or ice, and the limited experience of the flight crew in jet transport winter operations."

This was requested by "Weirdosack".

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[FLT111]

Today, January 13, 2012 marks the 30th anniversary of the crash of Air Florida flight 90.

January 13, 1982 - January 13, 2012.

Regards FLT111

[Helicopterpilot16]

Ice is a big danger! I like the divergent ducts on the older engines! sad this plane is very rare. Thank god they don't have audio recorders in cars, or you'd have a few thousand videos a day! Great video. Is there a recording of the EL AL flight?

[FLT111]

@Helicopterpilot16 Couldnt agree more! I don't really like uploading cockpit voice recordings their very sad as people are dying. I prefer ATC recordings as we dont actually here what happends at the very end. I'm pretty sure their is, I would have to look for one, I remember in 2007 I had actually uploaded it but then I removed it because I had recored it off webcam [Audio] and it didnt have great quality sound.

Regards FLT111

[Brendalfly98]

I'm Not Sure But I Think There Was a 1-year-old Baby in Their. I Saw it from Seconds from Disaster.

[trf117]

I was 2 when that happend an still remember....

[dryline123]

Five survivors too, just read the description :(

[dryline123]

30 years! cannot believe it either!

[aircrashdisaster]

Wow today marks Thirty years, thanks for letting us know FLT!

[MzChelxoxo]

:(

[LeondP]

thanks for uploading.

it's both, fascinating and cruel to hear the last words spoken by the pilots on the plane. interesting, the first officer seems to be quite calm while the captain is pretty exhilarated... can't blame him (for that).

[aircrashdisaster]

Can't believe its almost been thirty years!

[dryline123]

All I can say is that I need to thank you very much and other people who upload these audio tapes to keep the memory of the dead alive!

thank you FLT111