Delta Airlines Flight 1141 (August 31, 1988)

Date: August 31, 1988
Passengers: 101
Crew: 7
Fatalities: 14
Cause: "... (1) the Captain and First Officer's inadequate cockpit discipline which resulted in the flightcrew's attempt to takeoff without the wing flaps and slats properly configured; and (2) the failure of the takeoff configuration warning system to alert the crew that the airplane was not properly configured for the takeoff."


Legend:
CAM     Cockpit area microphone or sound source
RDO     Radio transmission from accident aircraft
PA      Public address system
APP		KDFW Approach Control
CTR		KDFW Center
GPWS	Ground Proximity Warning System
-1		Voice identified as captain
-2      Voice identified as first officer
-3      Voice identified as flight engineer
-4      Voice identified as flight attendant
-P		Voice unidentified but listed in the transcript (passenger? personnel?)
-?      Voice unidentified or unknown
*       Unintelligible word
@       Non-pertinent word
&       Third-party personal name
#       Expletive
( )     Questionable insertion
(( ))   Editorial insertion
...     Pause
Times are expressed in CDT.


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0853:12		CAM-P	What kinda birds are those

0853:16		CAM-1	Egrets or whatever they call 'em

0853:18		CAM-4	Yeah Egrets...
			CAM-2	Are they
			CAM-4	...I think so

0853:21		CAM-4	Are they a cousin to the ones by the sea

0853:25		CAM-1	I don't know they whenever I now grass out in my pasture they come in and it stirs up the grasshoppers and everything

0853:34		CAM-3	Boy they just flock there

0853:36		CAM-2	I've seen them all over the place out around here
			CAM-1	Grasshoppers *
			CAM-4	Real *

0853:41		CAM-1	They ah in fact they sit on the back of our horse now and then you see one out there just sittin' on the back of the horse

0853:45		CAM-4	Oh is that right

0853:46		CAM-2	I've seen them sittin' on the back of a lot of cows
			CAM-1	Yeah

0853:50		CAM-4	Are they the ones that pick the bugs off of them and stuff

0853:53		CAM-1	I guess and they hang around them because while they're grazing you know they stir up the insects and they can get 'em easier

0853:58		CAM-4	Uh huh

0854:00		CAM-4	They're pretty birds

0854:07		CAM-2	They got one more American and I think we'll be able to go here...start clearin' some of this

0854:18		CAM-1	It's interesting how they sit around the airport like this without being afraid

0854:25		CAM-4	Didn't we taxi

0854:26		CAM-2	I'm surprised they're not complainin' about the noise

0854:28		CAM-4	All the way around

0854:30		CAM-4	We go to the other side

0854:33		CAM-1	All the way around down here over back up here

0855:10		CAM-3	Boy this is somethin'...
			CAM-3	If this is how it is on a severe clear VFR day

0855:15		CAM-4	Can you imagine... ((laughter))
			CAM-4	Imagine...

0855:16		CAM-2	Imagine what it would be like if we had weather today

0855:20		CAM-2	I tell you what Dallas Fort Worth Center is ah hundred percent better than it was three years ago...

0855:25		CAM-4	Is it really

0855:26		CAM-2	With its with regard to weather gettin' in and gettin' out and all

0855:33		CAM-2	If it clouded up and even looked like there was going to be weather it I use'ta think it backed up you'd be holdin' slowin' down doin' all kinds of stuff

0855:41		CAM-?	Ugh

0855:59		CAM-1	Did you see that bird
			CAM-4	Yes

0856:02		CAM-1	He got the jet blast

0856:03		CAM-4	Yeah he did he got it

0856:04		CAM-2	Ah what a crash

0856:08		CAM-4	He said what in the world was that

0856:09		CAM-2	Ever go out to Midway and see the gooney birds they're somethin' to watch

0856:15		CAM-3	They crash and look around to see if anybody saw 'em you know

0856:17		CAM-2	Yeah

0856:19		CAM-2	They would they you know if you'd do a runup the flight would come up and do a runup and the gooney birds would be back there in the prop wash just hangin' in the air you know and then they shut pull pull the power back and then they'd just *
			CAM		((sound of laugh))

0856:35		CAM-2	Hit the ground you know...they were hilarious

0856:38		CAM-2	They'd send a truck out you'd get ready to take off they'd send a pickup truck out and they'd go move the birds off the runway so you could takeoff

0856:44		CAM-4	Oh really oh how funny where are they where was that

0856:47		CAM-2	Midway Midway Island

0856:48		CAM-4	Midway Island

0856:49		CAM-2	They come back and they nest in exactly the same spot that they were born

0856:52		CAM-4	On the runway

0856:53		CAM-2	Yeah whether it was a runway or what it was they come back to the exact same spot and ah so there's some kind of a law or somethin' that you can't build anything on the island anymore because...

0857:04		CAM-4	Uh huh

0857:07		CAM-2	It's a sanctuary for the birds or somethin'

0857:08		PA-3	Good morning ladies and gentlemen we're number four for departure, flight attendants prepare the cabin please

0857:22		CAM		((flight switched to tower frequency))

0857:32		CAM-4	We're ready

0857:33		CAM-3	Thank you

0857:35		CAM		((sound similar to cockpit door being closed))

0857:42		CAM-1	Might as well start

0857:49		CAM-3	Forty psi

0857:51		CAM-2	Number three

0857:54		CAM-3	Start valve open

0858:07		CAM		((sound of engine igniter starts))

0858:09		CAM-3	Oil pressure

0858:16		CAM		((engine igniter stops))

0858:17		CAM-3	Start valve closed forty psi

0858:23		CAM		((sound of generator coming online))

0858:24		CAM-3	Engine instruments

0858:26		CAM-2	Checked normal

0858:30		CAM-3	Engine anti-ice

0858:31		CAM-2	It's closed

0858:38		TWR		Eleven forty one taxi position runway one eight left and hold the Bandit will cross ahead

0858:44		RDO-2	Okay eleven forty one's position and hold

0858:46		CAM-3	Shoulder harness

0858:47		CAM-2	They're on
			CAM-3	Flaps

0858:48		CAM-2	Fifteen fifteen green light

0858:49		CAM-3	Flight controls

0858:50		CAM-2	Tops and bottoms are checked

0858:53		CAM-3	Nav instruments

0858:54		CAM-2	They're set

0858:57		CAM-3	Takeoff briefing

0858:58		CAM-2	Is complete

0858:59		CAM-3	Flight attendants have been notified...and acknowledged

0859:00		CAM-3	Anti-skid

0859:01		CAM-2	On

0859:02		CAM-3	Continuous ignition

0859:04		CAM-2	On

0859:05		CAM-3	Nav lights

0859:06		CAM-2	On

0859:07		CAM-3	Transponder
			CAM-2	On

0859:08		CAM-3	Before takeoff checklists complete
			CAM-2	Thank you

0859:17		TWR		Delta eleven forty one fly heading one eight five runway one eight left cleared for takeoff

0859:20.4	RDO-2	Eleven forty one one eight five cleared to go

0859:35		CAM		((sound of increasing engine noise))

0859:48.4	CAM-2	Power's set

0859:49.8	CAM-2	Engine instruments look good

0859:51.4	CAM-2	Airspeed's comin' up both sides

0859:53.5	CAM-2	Eighty knots

0900:05.5	CAM-2	Vee R

0900:06.5	CAM		((sound similar to nose strut extension))

0900:10.7	CAM-2	Vee two

0900:12.5	CAM		((sound of snap))

0900:15.1	CAM		((sound of stick shaker starts and continues until end of tape))

0900:15.5	CAM-1	(somethin's wrong/ooh)

0900:17.6	CAM		((sound of compressor stall))

0900:18.3	CAM		((sound of compressor stall))

0900:19.1	CAM-P	Engine failure

0900:19.5	RDO		((sound of microphone key for 6.6s))

0900:19.9	CAM		((sound of compressor stall))

0900:20.4	CAM		((sound of compressor stall))

0900:21.1	CAM		((sound of compressor stall))

0900:21.7	CAM-2	We got an engine failure

0900:22.9	CAM		((sound of momentary power interruption to CVR))

0900:26.9	CAM-1	We're not gunna make it

0900:28.9	RDO-2	Eleven forty one's...

0900:33.4	RDO		((sound of microphone keying for 0.3s))

0900:34.7	CAM-1	Full power

0900:34.9	CAM-2	**

0900:35.3	CAM		((sound of first impact))

0900:36.6	RDO		((sound of microphone keying for 0.3s))

0900:37.1	CAM		((sound of second impact))

0900:37.3	RDO-?	Send the...call the equipment

0900:37.4	CAM		((sound of third impact))
			CAM		((sound of pilot screaming))

0900:38.5	CAM		((sound of fourth impact))

0900:39.4			((end of recording))


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USbEu7Hao8A --- Recordings from the CVR (including last 20 seconds)