14 Heart-Stopping Pilot Confessions Moments Before Disaster Strikes in the Sky
Meanwhile, Baggett Law notes that the chances of a commercial airplane crashing are a tiny 0.000001%. The odds of you losing your life in a plane crash are 1 in 816,545,929. “To put it into perspective, you have a better chance of winning a Powerball jackpot.”
Flight 2605 of Western Airlines was nicknamed the Night Owl. It crashed on Halloween 1979. Due to fog, the pilots landed on a closed runway with trucks and workers. The plane hit a truck and crashed into a building. The last words of the pilots, recorded by the cockpit voice recorder:
Captain: We’re cleared on the right, is that correct?
Captain: No, this is the approach to the god-d**n left.
First officer: Yeah, climb to 8500 and uh-
First officer: Charlie, get it up!
Captain: Oh Jesus Christ!
[screaming in terror and sound of final impact]
On a stormy Day in 1985, Delta flight 191 was flying from Florida to Los Angeles with a stop in Dallas. As it neared the runway, a sudden gust of wind slammed it to the ground. It hit a car and two water tanks and exploded. 137 lives were lost in a microburst. The last words of the pilots were recorded by the cockpit voice recorder:
Captain: You’re gonna lose it all of a sudden. There it is. Push it up, push it way up, way up.
Flight engineer: Push it way up!
First officer: S**t!
[sound of impact]
Royal Air Maroc Flight 630. The flight took off from Agadir, Morocco, in 1994, but it never reached its destination. One of the pilots crashed the plane on purpose, killing all 44 people on board. Here are the last words of the pilot:
Pilot: Don’t come fast… Come slowly, bring it slowly. Don’t lose the axis. It’s unbalanced. Get me this fuel!
Tower: Turn left after takeoff!
Pilot: I’m going to die!
Co-pilot: No! No, no, not old man!
Pilot: What did you do?!
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