Dan-Air Flight 1008 (April 25, 1980)

Date: April 25, 1980
Passengers: 138
Crew: 8
Fatalities: 146
Cause: "...the commander, without taking account of the altitude at which he was flying, took the aircraft into an area of high terrain and thereby failed to maintain a safe height above the terrain as he was required to do."


Legend:
CAM     Cockpit area microphone or sound source
RDO     Radio transmission from accident aircraft
APP		Tenerife Norte APP
IB711	Iberia Flight 711
HP542	Hapag-Lloyd 542
-1      Voice identified as pilot
-2		Voice identified as co-pilot
-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 local time. The transcript appendix in the report isn't online, but the report contains an analysis section with plenty of the transcript. Some times aren't shown in this analysis.


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1314:28		RDO-1	Tenerife good morning Dan-Air one zero zero eight

1314:33		APP		Dan-Air one zero Tenerife, go ahead

1314:36		RDO-1	Good morning sir, levelled at one one zero, fourteen miles to Tango Fox November

1314:45		APP		Dan-Air one zero zero eight, cleared to the Foxtrot Papa beacon via Tango Fox Trot November, flight level one one zero, expect runway one two, no delay

1314:55		RDO-1	Roger, cleared to the Fox Papa via Tango Fox November, runway one two. Can we copy the weather?
			APP		Confirm, did you copy the weather?
			RDO-1	I would like to copy the weather and the pressure please
			APP		OK runway in use one two, the wind one two zero, zero five visibility six from seven kilometres, cloud two oktas at one two zero metres, plus four oktas at two five zero metres, plus two oktas at three five zero metres, November Hotel one zero one three, temperature one six, dew point one one and drizzle
			RDO-1	Roger, can we have the Fox Echo, please, for runway one two

			APP		((to IB-711)) Iberia seven one one, level?
			IB711	Iberia seven one one we are past the VOR and have left six, we are now five thousand, five thousand maintaining

			APP		Received. Break. Dan-Air one zero zero eight descend and maintain flight level six zero.
			RDO-1	Roger, leaving one one zero for six zero
			APP		Report your DME reading please
			RDO-1	Er, we're reading seven DME Tango Fox November and requesting the QFE please
			APP		Nine four three
			RDO-1	One zero zero eight, nine four three many thanks
			APP		One zero zero eight, for your information QFE for runway one two is nine four one
			RDO-1	Roger, nine four one for one two, thanks

1317:18		CAM-1	You can put the ILS on your side we might get it on a back beam for a lead in
					... ((possible break in transcript?))
			CAM-3	That's what I reckoned it should be by calculation
			CAM-1	I won't go out the full procedure if you know because it takes you way out to sea like this

			APP		IB-711 report on completing procedure turn
			IB711	Roger IB-711

			CAM		((Morse Code ITF ILS audio ident))
			CAM-2	ITF three oh five is in my box
			CAM-2	Three oh two I'm sorry excuse me
1318:15		CAM-1	Just about to go overhead going for
			CAM-2	Two five five out of here
			CAM-?	((sound of humming))

			HP542	Tenerife good afternoon - Hapag-Lloyd five four two
			APP		Five four two, good afternoon report ready
			HP542	Wilco

1318:48		RDO-?	Dan-Air one zero zero eight has just passed the Tango Fox November heading to the er, Fox Papa

1318:54		APP		Roger, the standard holding over Fox Papa is inbound heading one five zero, turn to the left, call you back shortly
			RDO-?	Roger Dan-Air one zero zero eight

			CAM		((conversation over the next 56 seconds, after the last RDO))
			CAM-1	Inbound one five zero to your left
			CAM-2	One five zero left yeh
			CAM-1	That's an odd sort of a runway...
			CAM-1	One to go
			CAM-2	One to go
			CAM-3	One to go
			CAM-2	No I'm not er suppose it's alright
			CAM-1	I'll just turn straight round left on to one five zero when I go overhead then
			CAM-2	Yes
			CAM-1	The only thing is we're hmm we're just about to miss it ah ah it's too close
			CAM-2	Would you like the other one on the Fox Papa as well for this?
			CAM-1	If you put them both on as we're going to hold yeh
			CAM-1	That's er that's the Foxtrot Papa now
			CAM-2	Yeh

			RDO-2	Dan Air one zero zero eight is the Foxtrot Papa level at six zero taking up the hold
			APP		Roger

			CAM-3	That's the fuel
			CAM-2	Bloody strange hold isn't it
			CAM-1	Yes, doesn't isn't parallel with the runway or anything
			CAM-2	It's that way isn't it?
			CAM-3	That is a three isn't it?
			CAM-2	Hmm
			CAM-3	That is a three isn't it?
			CAM-2	Yes, well the hold's going to be here isn't it?

			IB711	Free five thousand now, we are in the procedure turn
			APP		Dan-Air one zero zero eight recleared to five thousand on the Quebec Foxtrot Echo and the Quebec November Hotel
			RDO-?	((acknowledges message, reads back information and uses QNH as the datum))

			CAM-1	Hey, did he say it was one five zero inbound?
			CAM-2	Inbound yeh
			CAM-1	That's
			CAM-1	I don't like that
			CAM-2	They want us to keep going more round don't they?

1320:52		GPWS	((sounds "Whoop whoop pull up" for 15s))

1320:57.9	CAM-1	Okay overshoot

1321:00.0	CAM-1	He's taking us round to the high ground

1321:03.2	CAM-2	Yeh

1321:06.5	CAM-1	Watch my EPRS

1321:07.3	CAM-2	I suggest a heading of one two two actually and er take us through the overshoot, ah

1321:11.5	CAM-3	Let's get out of here

1321:13.5	RDO-1	Er...Dan-Air one zero zero eight, we've had a ground proximity warning

1321:16.5	CAM-3	Bank angle!

1321:17.8	CAM-3	Bank ang-

1321:18		CAM		((sound of impact))

1321:20				((end of recording))


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ep5pQVgU-o --- Recording of the last moments of the flight (the first two GPWS warnings are apparently edited in)