DELTA Airlines Flight 191 Lockheed L1011 TriStar - Dallas Wind Shear Crash in 1985 - ATC CVR Audio

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Delta Air Lines Flight 191 Reg N726DA, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, was an airline service from Fort Lauderdale, Florida Fort Lauderdale International Airport, bound for Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California, LAX by way of Dallas Fort Worth International Airport. On the afternoon of August 2, 1985, Delta Air Lines flight 191 crashed while on a routine approach to the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, killing 8 of 11 crew members and 126 of the 152 passengers on board and one person on the ground, adding up to a total of 135 deaths. This accident is one of the few rare commercial air crashes in which the meteorological phenomenon known as microburst-induced wind shear was a direct contributing factor.

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18:04:01 TWR Delta one-ninety-one heavy, regional tower, one seven left cleared to land, winds zero nine zero at five, gusts to one five.

18:04:05 CAM-2 Alright!

18:04:06 RDO-1 Thank you, sir.

18:04:06 CAM-2 Before Landing Check.

18:04:07 CAM-2 Landing Gear?

18:04:08 CAM-1 Down, three green.

18:04:10 CAM-3 Flaps, slats.

18:04:10 TWR American three-fifty-one, if you can make that next high-speed there, pull up behind Delta and hold short of one seven right, this frequency.

18:04:12 CAM-1 Thirty three, thirty three, green light.

18:04:13 CAM [SOUND OF ALTITUDE ALERT HORN]

18:04:15 AA351 Three-fifty-one.

18:04:15 CAM-3 Fourteen, green.

18:04:18 CAM-2 There's lightning coming out of that one.

18:04:19 CAM-1 What?

18:04:21 CAM-2 There's lightning coming out of that one.

18:04:22 CAM-1 Where?

18:04:23 CAM-2 Right ahead of us.

18:04:30 CAM-3 You get the good legs, don't ya?

18:04:30 TWR Delta ten-sixty-one, cross one seven right without delay, ground point six five after you cross.

18:04:36 DL1061 Understand, Delta ten-sixty-one.

18:04:38 TWR Three-fifty-one, cross one seven right, ground point six five after you cross.

18:04:41 CAM-1 I don't have a DME on mine.

18:04:43 CAM-2 I don't know, you haven't had it for the last five minutes.

18:04:45 TWR Delta nine-sixty-three and American six- nineteen, cross one seven right, ground point six five after you cross.

18:04:52 AA619 American six-nineteen.

18:05:08 CAM-1 Seven sixty two in the baro.

18:05:12 CAM-1 I'll call 'em out for you.

18:05:13 CAM-2 Alright.

18:05:14 AA178 You want American one-seventy-eight to turn the corner?

18:05:16 TWR Yes, sir, everybody around the corner when you're number one.

18:05:19 CAM-1 Watch your speed.

18:05:20 TWR American one-fifty-six contact departure.

18:05:21 CAM-3 (Unintelligible) idle....

18:05:21 CAM-1 You're gonna lose it all of a sudden, there it is.

18:05:24 AA156 American one-fifty-six, so long.

18:05:26 CAM-1 Push it up. Push it way up.

18:05:27 CAM-1 Way up!

18:05:28 CAM-3 Way up!

18:05:29 CAM-1 Way up!

18:05:29 CAM [SOUND OF ENGINES HIGH RPM]

18:05:30 CAM-1 That's it.

18:05:36 TWR American six-twenty-two cleared for takeoff.

18:05:36 CAM-1 Hang onto the son of a bitch!

18:05:38 AA622 Cleared for takeoff, American six- twenty-two.

18:05:39 CAM-2 What's the vee-ref?

18:05:40 TWR American five-eighty-six, into position and hold one seven right.

18:05:43 AA586 Into position and hold.

18:05:44 GPWS Whoop Whoop Pull Up!

18:05:45 GPWS Whoop Whoop Pull Up!

18:05:45 CAM-1 TOGA

18:05:46 CAM [SOUND OF 'GO AROUND' INITIATION]

18:05:46 CAM-? Holy sh*t!

18:05:47 CAM-1 Push it way up!

18:05:48 GPWS Whoop Whoop Pull Up!

18:05:49 GPWS Whoop Whoop Pull Up!

18:05:49 TWR: ...well, uh, expedite down to the taxiway thirty-one and a right turnoff, the traffic's a mile final.

18:05:52 CAM [SOUND OF NOISE SIMILAR TO LANDING, FOLLOWED BY SOUND OF TAKEOFF WARNING HORN FOR 1.6 SECONDS]

18:05:53 N15JF Juliet Fox, roger. [In response to TWR]

18:05:53.5 CAM-? Sh*t!

18:05:55.5 CAM-? Oh sh*t!

18:05:55.5 CAM [SOUND OF SECOND IMPACT]

18:05:58 CAM [END OF RECORDING]