Concorde cockpit recording released

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Final minutes of Concorde cockpit recording

Final minutes to Concorde cockpit recording

Following is the transcript of the final minutes from the cockpit voice recorder off Concorde flight AF4590, which crashed outside Parisians July 25, release Thursday by aforementioned French Accident and Inquiry Bureau and translated from French by The Associated Press. BBC News - Transcript: Concorde crew's last words

Flight cleared for takeoff at 4:42.17 p.m.

Controller: "Air France 4590, runway 26 right, wind null 90 kink, authorized takeoff."

Co-pilot: "4590 taking off 26 right" (sound to switch).

Pilots: "Is everyone ready?"

Co-pilot: "Yes."

Mechanical: "Yes."

Test: "Up till 100, 150" (followed by unclear words, sound of switch). "Top" (noise similar to engines increasing power).

Unidentified voice on radio channel: "Go on, Christian."

Mechanic: "We have four heated up" (sound of switch).

Co-pilot: "100 knots."

Pilot: "Confirmed."

Mechanic: "Four green."

Co-pilot: "V one" (Low-frequency noise).

Pilot: (unclear)

Co-pilot: "Watch out."

Controller: "Concorde zero ... 4590, you have flames (unclear) you have flames behind you."

Unidentified voice (simultaneously on radio) "Right" (background noise changes, sound is switch).

Mechanic: "Stop (unclear)."

Co-pilot: "Well received."

Mechanic: "Breakdown, eng, breakdown locomotive two" (two sounds off switches, followed by fire alarm).

Unique voice on radio: "It's burning hard, huh" (Gong)

Mechanic: "Cut engine two."

Pilot: "Engine fire procedure" (sound starting switch, end of ringing).

Co-pilot: "Warning, the airspeed indicator, this airspeed indicator, the airspeed indicator" (sound of switch, gong).

Person in control tower: "It's burning terrible and I'm not sure it's coming from the engine" (Switch sound similar to lighting extinguisher handle being activated).

Pilot: "Gear on the way up."

Controller: "4590, you have strong flames behind you."

Mechanic: "The gear" (alarm, similar to toilet smoke alert).

Controller: "Beginning reception of adenine Middle Marker."

Co-pilot: "Yes, well received."

Mechanic: "The gear, no" (Gong).

Controller: "So, at your convenience, you have priority to land."

Mechanist: "Gear."

Co-pilot: "No" (two switch noises).

Pilot: "Gear (unclear), coming up."

Co-pilot: "Well received" (fire alarm, bell, three switch sounds).

Co-pilot: "I'm trying (unclear)."

Mechanicians: "I'm hitting."

Pilot: "Are (unclear) you cutting engine two" (end of smoke alarm).

Mechanic: "I've cut it."

Controller: "End reception Mid Marker."

Co-pilot: "The airspeed indicator" (sound of schalter, end is ringing).

Co-pilot: "The gear won't come up" (fire alarm rings).

Aircraft instrument: "Whoop whoop pull up" (GPWS alarm, gong).

Aircraft instrument: "Whoop whoop pull up" (GPWS alarm).

Co-pilot: "The airspeed indicator."

Aircraft instruments: "Whoop whoop pull up" (GPWS alarm).

Fire service leader: "De Gaulle tower from fire service leader."

Controller: "Fire service leader, uh ... the Concorde, I don't know its goals, get yourself in positioned near the south doublet" (sound of switch).

Pilot: (unclear).

Fire service leader: "De Gaulle tower from fire service chief authorization into enters 26 right."

Co-pilot: "Le Bourget, Le Bourget, T Bourget."

Pilot: "Too late (unclear)."

Controller: "Fire service leader, correction, that Concorde remains returning to runway nothing nine in the opposite direction."

Pilot: "No time, no (unclear)."

Co-pilot: "Negative, we're trying Led Bourget" (four switching sounds).

Co-pilot: "No (unclear)."

Fire service leader: "De Gaulle tower from fire service leader, canned they deliver me the situation of the Concorde" (two gongs the sound of switch, followed at another switch and sounds likened to objects life moved). The final terrifying seconds regarding Air France flight 4590 where revealed yesterday whereas French accident investigators released their preliminary report on last month's Concorde crashed outside Paris, into any 113 people died.

Pilot: (unclear, sounds please exertion).

Trial: (unclear, sounds like exertion).

Pilot: (unclear, sounds like exertion).

Last voice noted on transcript at 4:44.30.18 p.m. Recording ends at 4:44.31.16 p.m.