PSA Flight 182 (September 25, 1978)

Date: September 25, 1978
Passengers: 128
Crew: 7
Fatalities: 135
Ground fatalities: 7
Cessna 172 (N7711G) fatalities: 2
Total fatalities: 144
Cause: "...failure of the flightcrew of Flight 182 to comply with the provisions of a maintain visual separation clearance, including the requirement to inform the controller when they no longer had the other aircraft in sight."

Legend:
CAM     Cockpit area mic voice or sound source
RDO     Radio transmission from accident aircraft
-1      Captain's voice
-2      First officer's voice
-3		Second officer's voice
-4		Off-duty PSA captain's voice
-?      Voice unidentified
APP		San Diego Approach Control
TWR		Lindberg Tower
SO		PSA company radio
207		PSA Flight 207
ARINC	ARINC radio
*       Unintelligible word
#       Nonpertinent word
%       Break in continuity
( )     Questionable text
(( ))   Editorial insertion
---     Pause
###     Denotes lengthy break in transcript
All times expressed Pacific daylight time


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0900:15		APP		PSA one eighty-two, traffic's at twelve o'clock, three miles out of one thousand seven hundred

0900:21		CAM-2	Got 'em

0900:22		RDO-1	Traffic in sight

0900:23		APP		Okay, sir, maintain visual separation, contact Lindbergh tower one three three point three, have a nice day now

0900:26		CAM-2	Flaps two

0900:28		RDO-1	Okay

0900:34		RDO-1	Lindbergh PSA one eighty-two downwind

0900:38		TWR		PSA one eighty-two, Lindbergh tower, ah, traffic twelve o'clock one mile a Cessna

0900:41		CAM-2	Flaps five

0900:42		CAM-1	Is that the one (we're) looking at

0900:43		CAM-2	Yeah, but I don't see him now

0900:44		RDO-1	Okay, we had it there a minute ago

0900:47		TWR		One eighty-two, roger

0900:50		RDO-1	I think he's pass(ed) off to our right

0900:51		TWR		Yeah

0900:52		CAM-1	He was right over here a minute ago

0900:53		CAM-2	Yeah

0900:53		TWR		How far are you going to take your downwind one eighty-two company traffic is waiting for departure

0900:57		RDO-1	Ah probably about three to four miles

0900:59		TWR		Okay

0901:01		TWR		PSA two zero seven, taxi into position and hold

0901:04		207		Two oh seven, position and hold

0901:07		TWR		PSA one eighty-two, cleared to land

0901:08		RDO-1	One eighty-two's cleared to land
			CAM-?	* *

0901:10		CAM		((Sound similar to door closing))

0901:11		CAM-2	Are we clear of that Cessna?

0901:13		CAM-3	Suppose to be

0901:14		CAM-1	I guess

0901:15		CAM-2	(Fifteen)
			CAM-?	((sound of laughter))

0901:20		CAM-4	I hope

0901:21		CAM-1	Oh yeah, before we turned downwind, I saw him about one o'clock, probably behind us now

0901:31		CAM-2	Gear down

0901:34		CAM		((Sound of clicks and sound similar to gear extension))

0901:38		CAM-2	There's one underneath

0901:39		CAM-?	*
			CAM-2	I was looking at that inbound there

0901:42		CAM		((Sound of thump similar to nose gear door closing))

0901:45		CAM-1	Whoop!

0901:46		CAM-2	Aghhh!

0901:47		CAM		((Sound of impact))
			CAM-4	Oh # #

0901:48		CAM-?	#

0901:49		CAM-1	Easy baby, easy baby

0901:50		CAM-?	Yeah

0901:51		CAM		((Sound of electrical system reactivation tone on voice recorder, system off less than one second))
			CAM-1	What have we got here?

0901:52		CAM-2	It's bad
			CAM-1	Huh?

0901:53		CAM-2	We're hit man, we are hit

0901:55		RDO-1	Tower we're going down, this is PSA

0901:57		TWR		Okay, we'll call the equipment for you

0901:58		CAM-?	Whoo!
			CAM		((Sound of stall warning))

0901:59		RDO-1	This is it baby
			CAM-?	Bob

0902:00		CAM-2	# # #

0902:01		CAM-?	# #

0902:03		CAM-1	Brace yourself

0902:04		CAM-?	Hey baby *
			CAM-?	Ma, I love yah

0902:04.5	CAM		((Sound of cockpit voice recorder ceases, electrical power to recorder stops))


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xrjm2Xz9JYo --- Audio from PSA Flight 182's last two tower communications (including 0901:55 to 0901:59)