Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 (August 29, 1996)

Date: August 29, 1996
Passengers: 130
Crew: 11
Fatalities: 141
Cause: "The course selected on both HSIs was 283 degrees even though the approach course is 300 degrees. This setting does not affect the indication of the CDI. However, the CDI was pointing to 283 degrees on the dial, which is 17 degrees to the left of the approach course, giving a visual impression of wind drift to the left and therefore giving a possible reason for a heading correction to the right...the navigator was overloaded with tasks leading little time for rechecking his work, thereby setting the scene for making mistakes."


Legend:
CAM     Cockpit area microphone or sound source
RDO     Radio transmission from accident aircraft
AFIS	Aerodrome Flight Information Service
-1      Voice identified as pilot
-2      Voice identified as commander (flying the plane at the time)
-3		Voice identified as navigator
-4		Voice identified as flight engineer
-?      Voice unidentified or unknown
TRAFF	Other flight traffic
*       Unintelligible word
@       Non-pertinent word
&       Third-party personal name
#       Expletive
( )     Questionable insertion
(( ))   Editorial insertion
[ ]		Spoken in English (specified in CVR, pilots I assume were not speaking English)
...     Pause
Times are expressed in CEST.


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2216:50		CAM-3	150

2216:52		CAM-1	By parallel...*

2216:55		CAM-3	No, seven miles here

2216:56		CAM-3	I'll adjust it

2217:05		CAM-2	Where are we? *

2217:06		CAM-3	Meanwhile, keep it like that!

2217:08		CAM-1	Did you notice the place?

2217:09		CAM-3	Abeam the turning point

2217:14		CAM-1	A corrective turn will be (necessary)

2217:16		CAM-?	We're approaching

2217:21		CAM-1	Now we will be (the flaps) *

2217:40		AFIS	VKO two eight zero one give me a call eight miles inbound

2217:43		CAM		((sound of radio altimeter warning for 6s))

2217:44		RDO-3	Call you back ten miles inbound, two eight zero one

2217:55		AFIS	VKO two eight zero one, give me a call eight miles inbound ((emphasis on eight))

2217:57		CAM-4	[Eight miles]
			CAM-3	Ah, abeam eight miles two eight zero one inbound...

2217:59		AFIS	Correct

2218:05		CAM-?	Four marks *

2218:08		CAM-1	But here it's already three

2218:14		CAM-?	There's no need to...here!

2218:16		CAM		((sound of radio altimeter warning for 2s))

2218:17		CAM-?	...to descend

2218:19		CAM-2	The flag disappeared on my instrument!

2218:21		CAM		((sound of radio altimeter warning for 6s))

2218:25		AFIS	LPP, Longyear roger, we have a traffic inbound Tupolev, suppose he will be passing eight miles east in a few minutes

2218:28		CAM-1	I'm turning just a little bit to the left

2218:32		CAM-2	Set it straight

2218:37		CAM-1	15

2218:39		CAM-1	Borya, have we got it?

2218:41		TRAFF	LPP, roger

2218:45		CAM-?	Set it!

2218:47		CAM-?	How many?

2218:50		CAM-?	(Switching off) (switching on)

2218:51		CAM-?	Switched off

2218:52		CAM-1	What should I hold?

2218:59		CAM-1	Okay, leave it!

2219:03		CAM-?	So, what might the recommendations be?

2219:04		CAM-1	So

2219:06		CAM-2	Maybe we took the fourth (final turn) too early?

2219:11		CAM-1	Let's level out!

2219:14		CAM-1	No, (it should be) to the right

2219:16		CAM-3	Just we'll get it, just now!

2219:18		CAM-3	Is the mark (marker) to the right?

2219:19		CAM-2	No, it is still staying
			CAM-1	To the right!

2219:20		CAM-1	Let's turn to the right

2219:21		CAM		((sound of radio altimeter warning for 6s))
			CAM-1	Give me the approach chart Borya

2219:22		CAM-2	Should we descend here?

2219:24		CAM-1	We shall descend!

2219:30		CAM-2	Should we approach?

2219:32		CAM-1	Let's 'dive'!

2219:34		CAM-1	What (course) did you keep (now), (what did you keep?)

2219:36		CAM-3	Three hundred degrees
			TRAFF	LPP, now crossed centerline and we will stay east of shoreline
			AFIS	PP, Longyear, say again
			TRAFF	We have crossed centerline and will stay north and east of shoreline, landing on the apron

2219:51		CAM-3	But it's fourteen here!

2219:52		CAM-1	OK

2219:54		AFIS	LPP, sorry about that. Did not copy, could you say again?
			CAM-1	So, fix it!

2219:59		CAM-3	Five metres

2220:03		TRAFF	LPP, be landing on the apron
			CAM-3	So, I'll keep about 320 degrees! OK?

2220:04		AFIS	LPP, Longyear, roger, Wind is 230/17 and give me a call passing extended centerline

2220:14		TRAFF	LPP, will call you right downwind out of the apron
			CAM-2	Isn't that too little?

2220:15		CAM-3	It should be a corrective turn

2220:16		AFIS	PP, Longyear roger, thank you

2220:17		CAM-1	No! Turn to the left!

2220:21		CAM-3	It's thirteen. Let's descend!

2220:24		CAM-2	To the left!
			CAM-3	Three degrees and five minutes. We're on the glide path

2220:29		CAM-2	We're on landing course now, correct?

2220:33		CAM-1	To get the landing course, make a slight correction to the left!

2220:41		CAM-3	Three hundred and thirteen, let's descend!

2220:44		CAM-2	What about the flaps?

2220:52		CAM-2	28?

2220:57		CAM-?	(Keep) * five metres

2220:58		CAM-3	* two-three miles

2221:00		CAM-1	You guide us, you guide us!
			CAM-3	We're flying by Jeppesen

2221:02		CAM-3	*
			CAM-1	Igor, set Advent for me

2221:05		CAM-?	*

2221:08		CAM-3	Not now. Later on!

2221:09		CAM-?	Well, (now) it's three hundred...metres (just now)

2221:14		CAM-?	No

2221:15		CAM-3	I've told you there is no need

2221:19		CAM-?	To the right

2221:22		CAM-1	What is our radial?

2221:24		CAM-3	Let's follow the approach chart to the end!

2221:25		TRAFF	LPP, landed 21

2221:29		CAM-?	So...*

2221:31		CAM-?	We will be landing, will we not?

2221:32		CAM-1	Well, that is okay

2221:33		CAM-1	300 degrees

2221:35		CAM-2	300 degrees so far! Is it okay?

2221:36		CAM-3	Flying through 1150. It's too high, we have to descend

2221:41		CAM-1	We have to descend

2221:43		CAM-1	So

2221:47		CAM-2	How are we approaching? Is it correct or not?

2221:49		CAM-2	Landing gears?

2221:51		CAM-?	The landing gears may be extended

2221:55		CAM-?	To the right here

2222:05		CAM-?	To the left

2222:07		CAM-2	So. How are we going for altitude?

2222:09		CAM-3	Three hundred, five metres. Descending!

2222:13		CAM-2	That's about five metres, is it not?

2222:17		CAM		((sound of radio altimeter warning for 6s))

2222:22		CAM-1	Horizon!

2222:23		CAM-2	Mountains!!!
			CAM		((sound of impact with ground))
					((possibly end of recording?))

2222:25		AFIS	VKO two eight zero one, weather is wind from 231/17, visibility still more than 10 in rain, we have few at 900 feet and broken at 2000

2222:58		AFIS	VKO two eight zero one, did you copy latest weather?