CVR transcript GP Express Airlines Flight 861 - 08 JUN 1992
Last updated: 16 October 2004
Cockpit voice recorder transcript of the June 8, 1992, accident of GP Express Airlines Flight 861, a Beech 99 at Anniston, Alabama.
SOURCE: NTSB/AAR-93/03

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Legenda: RDO Radio transmission from accident aircraft
CAM Cockpit Area Microphone sound or source
PA Aircraft Public Address sound or source
INT Flight Crew Intercom sound or source
HOT Flight Crew Hot Microphone sound or source
-1 Voice identified as Captain
-2 Voice identified as First Officer
APP Birmingham Approach Controller
* Unintelligible word
@ Nonpertinent word
# Expletive deleted
() Questionable text
- Pause
time source content
08:46:25 PA-2 ah folks we're starting our descent into Anniston like to ask that you double check to see if your seat belt is fa3tened for landing at this time and any carry-on that you may have brought with you is a stowed beneath the seat in front of you thank you.
08:46:37 INT-2 okay anyway in-range is complete. basically what they didn't reply but what @ told me to do is she couldn't hear us. is these radios are so # poor that they were give that I just broadcasted in the blind and they were goin' to monitor for us but anyway station call is done cabin sign I just did. the passenger brief I got. altimeter he gave us. windshield anti-ice we donft need. crew briefing ah if we don't get the visual here in a few miles we'll do the ILS if we have to. and exteriors?
08:47:12 INT-1 okay landing light's ah-.
08:47:13 INT-2 there you go.
08:47:14 INT-1 comin' on just turn them on and taxi.
08:47:17 INT-2 okay. Taxi won't do you any good until the gear comes down.
08:47:20 INT-1 that's okay. it's on.
08:47:21 INT-2 no problem.
08:47:26 INT-1 I didn't know that though.
08:47:29 INT-1 and let's see.
08:47:32 INT-1 and ah you've got everything set up that you can except the localizer frequency right.
08:47:36 INT-2 yeah for you and I'll get ler in there for you.
08:47:38 INT-1 and in-bound course is?
08:47:39 INT-2 ah I'll set it with my heading bug but I believe it's ah zero four nine so.
08:47:45 INT-1 zero four nine inbound.
08:47:46 INT-2 I'll just
08:47:46 APP Regional express eight sixty one the new Anniston weather seven hundred scattered estimated ceiling one thousand five hundred broken niner thousand overcast three miles fog and haze. the seven hundred foot layer is ah scattered variable to broken appears to be breaking up. the wind is zero niner zero at five altimeter three zero zero six
08:48:05 RDO-2 eight sixty one thank ya.
08:48:09 HOT-2 you want-.
08:48:10 INT-2 you want to go around for the ILS?
08:4 8: 10 APP and a eight sixty one proceed direct Bogga maintain four thousand 'til Bogga cleared localizer run- er ILS runway five approach.
08:48:19 INT-1 *
08:48:19 RDO-2 direct direct to Bogga four thousand and cleared for the ILS runway five. eight sixty one thank you
08:48:23 INT-1 ask him distance from
08:48:26 INT-2 from Bogga?
08:48:27 INT-1 that's okay I'll just.
08:48:28 INT-2 we're ah. minus six point one. we're five miles from Bogga.
08:48:31 INT-2 go ahead and slow on up.
08:48:37 INT-2 there you go keep the shiny side up.
08:48:39 INT-1 ah
08:48:40 INT-2 there you go should have moved your heading bug here you go I'll get you set in here.
08:48:44 INT-1 okay let's go approach flaps.
08:48:46 INT-2 speed checks comint now.
08:48:49 INT-2 didn't realize that your going to get this much on your first day did ya.
08:48:51 CAM ((sound of trim-in-motion beep))
08:48:53 INT-1 well it's all kind of ganged up here on me a little fast.
08:49:02 INT-1 got the localizer in?
08:49:03 INT-2 workin' on it.
08:49:06 INT-1 think we're goin' to go through it.
08:49:08 INT-2 ah I'm goin' to kill somebody about these radios I can't get your frequency set.
08:49:20 INT-2 there you go.
08:49:21 INT-1 yup went through it.
08:49 : 2 4 INT-2 can you go around for it?
08:49:26 INT-1 I bet you. I think we're right over the outer-.
08:49:28 INT-2 we're right over Bogga. He kept us in real tight I mean God we're - we're four and a half out that was uncalled for go ahead and drop your gear speed checks.
08:49:43 INT-1 glide slope isn't even alive.
08:50:00 INT-1 what's the minimum altitude I can descend to 'til I'm established?
08:50:03 INT-2 'til established. twenty two hundred.
08:50:06 APP Regional express eight sixty one that ah weathers south of ah a Bogga is moving northbound and the leading edge appears to be about two miles southwest of Bogga.
08:50:18 RDO-2 eight sixty one thank you very much we're out of four thousand for the localizer at this time and we're inside of Bogga.
08:50:23 APP yes sir and advise procedure turn inbound.
08:50:28 RDO-2 ah procedure turn inbound complete.
08:50:41 INT-2 okay here it comes.
08:50:46 INT-2 I'm thinkin'.
08:50:53 INT-1 ah we gotta go missed on this.
08:50:55 INT-2 just a minute - there you go - there your gunnal shoot right through it again - there you go see.
08:51:08 INT-2 that's why I was kindal wonderin' you know hay.
08:51:12 INT-2 okay we gettint in close keep 'er goin'.
08:51:16 INT-2 you're okay.
08:51:17 INT-1 hopin' no one on here's a pilot.
08:51:20 INT-2 well one guy got on with a helmet bag.
08:51:23 INT-2 okay there you go. roll out. you're kosher.
08:51:26 INT-2 see you you had about a ninety degree intercept there I was kindal like whoa.
08:51:30 INT-2 through twenty two we're
08:51:31 INT-1 okay we're on our way.
08:51:33 INT-1 there's the glide slope.
08:51:34 INT-2 okay watch your airspeed. one fifteen on the airspeed.
08:51:36 INT-2 we're inside- through twenty two we can continue our descent on down. we're way high.
08:51:43 INT-1 okay is the glide slope working?
08:51:45 INT-2 nope I'm not gettin' any.
08:51:48 INT-2 so with no glide slope, we're down to eleven hundred.
08:51:50 INT-1 you got your right frequency in there?
08:51:51 INT-2 five hundred - one eleven five double check yup.
08:52:13 INT-1 what's our missed approach point now?
08:52:15 INT-2 missed approach at the middle marker ah-.
08:52:20 INT-2 eleven hundred but we need to add a hundred so twelve hundred.
08:52:24 INT-2 comin' up.
08:52:25 CAM ((sound of impact))