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- Date: June 24, 1975
- Passengers: 116
- Crew: 8
- Fatalities: 113
- Cause: "...the aircraft's encounter with adverse winds associated with a very strong thunderstorm located astride the ILS localizer course, which resulted in a high descent rate into the nonfrangible approach light towers. The flightcrew's delayed recognition and correction of the high descent rate were probably associated with their reliance upon visual cues rather than on flight instrument references. However, the adverse winds might have been too severe for a successful approach and landing even had they relied upon and responded rapidly to the indications of the flight instruments."
- Legend:
- CAM Cockpit area microphone or sound source
- HOT Flight crew audio panel voice or sound source
- RDO Radio transmission from accident aircraft
- EA902 Eastern Airlines 902
- N1004 National Airlines 1004
- TWR Kennedy Tower
- KFV Kennedy Final Vector Controller
- -1 Voice identified as captain
- -2 Voice identified as first officer
- -3 Voice identified as flight engineer
- -? Voice unidentified or unknown
- * Unintelligible word
- @ Non-pertinent word
- # Expletive
- ( ) Questionable insertion
- (( )) Editorial insertion
- ... Pause
- Times are expressed in EDT.
- ---
- 1559:40 EA902 We had...a pretty good shear pulling us to the right and...down and visibility was nil, nil out over the marker...correction...at two hundred feet it was...nothing
- KFV Okay, the shear you say pulled you right and down?
- 1600:27.0 EA902 Yeah, we were on course and down about two fifty feet. The airspeed dropped to about ten knots below the bug and our rate of descent was up to fifteen hundred feet a minute, so we put takeoff power on and we went around at a hundred feet
- 1600:33.0 CAM-1 You know this is asinine
- CAM-? I wonder if they're covering for themselves
- KFV ((asking accident flight if they heard the report))
- RDO-1 ...affirmative
- KFV ((establishing flight's position: five miles from outer marker, and cleared for ILS approach to 22L))
- 1600:54.5 RDO-1 Okay, we'll let you know about the conditions
- 1601:17.8 CAM-2 I'll just fly the glideslope on down. Fifteen, please
- CAM-1 Fifteen
- 1601:49.5 CAM-2 Final check when ready
- 1601:54.5 CAM ((sound of altitude monitor))
- CAM-1 It's on
- CAM-3 Speedbrake
- CAM-1 Forward detent
- CAM-? Up
- CAM-3 RADAR
- CAM-1 Up and off, ah, standby
- 1602:12.5 CAM-3 Gear down
- 1602:20.0 CAM-1 Five rel. I have the RADAR on standby in case I need it, I can get it off later
- 1602:27.5 CAM-1 They're uh fifteen and standby
- 1602:36.0 CAM-3 That valve light came back on, John
- 1602:42.0 KFV Roger Eastern nine zero two, would you classify that as a severe wind shift, uh correction...shear?
- 1602:47.5 EA902 Affirmative
- 1602:50.5 CAM-2 Gonna keep a pretty healthy margin on this one
- 1602:53.0 CAM-? I, uh, I would suggest that you do
- CAM-2 In case he's right
- 1602:58.7 RDO-1 ((reporting over the outer marker))
- KFV ((clears flight to contact tower))
- 1603:05.5 CAM-2 And take thirty, please
- 1603:12.4 RDO-1 ((establishes communications with Kennedy tower)) ...outer marker, inbound
- 1603:36.0 CAM-1 I'll get the windshield wipers if you need them
- 1603:44.0 TWR Eastern sixty six, cleared to land
- 1603:46.3 RDO-1 Sixty six
- 1603:49.5 RDO-1 Any reports on braking action for sixty six
- 1603:57.7 CAM-3 One thousand feet
- 1604:10.9 RDO-1 Any reports on braking action for sixty six?
- 1604:14.1 TWR No, none. Uh, approach end of the runway is wet, uh, but I'd say about the first half is wet, we've had no adverse reports
- 1604:36.3 CAM-? You've got five hundred feet
- 1604:38.5 CAM ((sound of windshield wipers going to high speed))
- 1604:40.5 CAM-1 Stay on the gauges
- 1604:41.5 CAM-2 Oh yes, I'm right with it
- 1604:45.8 N1004 ...by the outer marker...everyone else...having a good ride though?
- 1604:48.0 CAM-3 Three greens, thirty degrees, final checklist
- 1604:52.8 CAM-1 I have approach lights
- 1604:53.2 CAM-2 Okay
- 1604:54.7 CAM-1 Stay on the gauges
- 1604:55.8 CAM-2 I'm with it
- 1604:58.0 TWR Eastern sixty six and National one zero zero four, the only adverse reports we've had about the approach is a wind shear on short final ((not acknowledged by accident flight, but acknowledged by N1004))
- 1605:06.2 CAM-1 Runway in sight
- CAM-2 I got it
- 1605:09.3 CAM-1 Got it?
- 1605:10.2 CAM-2 Takeoff thrust ((unintelligible exclamation simultaneous with command for takeoff thrust))
- 1605:11.4 CAM ((sound of initial impact))
- ((end of recording))
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