CVR transcript United Express Flight 291 - 07 JAN 1994
Last updated: 16 October 2004
Cockpit voice recorder transcript of the January 7, 1994 accident of United Express Flight 291, a Jetstream 41 at Port Columbus.
Source: Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) Accident Prevention January 1995

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Legenda:
( ) = Questionable Insertion
(( )) = Editorial Insertion
[ ] = FSF or NTSB clarifications
* Transcript from aircraft's cockpit voice recorder.
Source: U.S. National Transportation Safety Board
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2311:18 Captain (Capt.): You ever get 'em? [Referring to first officer's attempt to reach the company dispatcher by radio.]
2311:19 First officer (FO): No, no.
2311:21 Capt.: Okay, screw 'em.
2311:26 Capt.: Okay, we're going down to 10,000. D and A's been completed, ah ... the only thing we have left is reach company.
2311:45 Capt.: Depending upon what we go through I might have you pop the boots at the outer marker, we'll see.
2311:49 FO: Okay ... all I'd have to do is hit auto-cycle light up bright up here?
2311:55 Capt.: Yeah, just hit auto-cycle.
2311:56 FO: Right, okay.
2312:12 FO: You got six miles in eleven hundred, so typical ....
2312:18 Capt.: Oh yeah, not worried about that.
2312:35 Capt.: Down to four. [Clearance from CMH to descend and maintain 4,000 feet received by FO.]
2312:35 FO: That's what I said to him.
2312:41 Capt.: Yeah, I'm just repeating it, I heard you.
2313:29 Capt.: What's the winds, the surface winds down there... again?
2313:32 FO: Ah, three three zero at four knots.
2313:35 Capt.: Thanks.
2314:12 Capt.: Tell you what.
2314:13 FO: Yeah.
2314:15 Capt.: Bust the boots.
2314:28 FO: You only got a little rime.
2314:44 Capt.: Yeah, I got a little bit.
2314:52 FO: Seems to be a little rime, it never took nothing off [unintelligible] this side here.
2314:56 Capt.: Yeah, it didn't take that much off ... that's cool.
2315:56 Capt.: Hello.
2315:59 FO: So now it's two and a half with 800. [CMH reported the weather at the airport.]
2316:20 Capt.: What's the ice AOA [angle of attack], ah ...
2316:26 Capt.: What's the V speed?
2316:43 [Sound of single chime]
2316:46 Capt.: We're gonna do flaps 25 ice AOA on so what's the ref speed for that ... at this weight?
2317:19 Capt.: Thousand.
2317:20 FO: Ref's gonna be ...
2317:20 [Sound similar to that of altitude or gear warning alert.]
2317:21 FO: One to go ... ref is gonna be one twelve.
2317:25 Capt.: What, that's with the ice AOA, right?
2317:28 FO: That's affirm.
2317:29 Capt.: Okay, that's what we're gonna do ... that's what we're gonna do.
2317:46 [Sound of single chime.]
2317:58 [Sound similar to reduction in prop/engine noise amplitude.]
2318:26 Capt.: Two ninety-one. [Referring to FO's use of 391 rather than 291 to identify the flight during radio communication.]
2318:36 FO: What did I say?
2318:38 Capt.: Three ninety-one.
2318:39 FO: Oh.
2318:40 Capt.: Okay, if you got all the speeds don't worry about them anymore.
2318:44 FO: Ref is 112, I gotta plug that (too).
2318:46 Capt.: I did it for you.
2318:53 FO: Here comes glideslope. ((Sound similar to altitude or gear warning alert.))
2319:30 Capt.: And we're marker inbound.
2319:36.8 Capt.: Don't forget to give me my calls, 1,014 is DH [decision height].
2320:01.3 FO: A thousand above.
2320:02.3 Capt.: Okay, flaps nine.
2320:08.5 Capt.: Gear down.
2320:25.6 FO: Flaps fifteen, landing gear down, three green.
2320:31.6 FO: Condition levers a hund- ... condition levers a hundred percent.
2320:36.1 Capt.: Okay, give me a hundred percent, please.
2320:38.1 FO: A hundred percent, flows at three.
2320.41.1 Capt.: Three.
2320:41.6 FO: Yaw damper.
2320:42.7 Capt.: And autopilot to go, don't touch.
2320:44.5 FO: Don't touch.
2320:46.2 FO: Holding on the yaw damper.
2320:46.6 ((Sound similar to that of a stick shaker start.))
2320:47.2 ((Sound of seven tones similar to that of autopilot disconnect alert.))
2320:48.1 Capt.: Tony.
2320:49.5 ((Sound similar to that of a stick shaker stops.))
2320:50.2 Capt.: What did you do?
2320:50.8 FO: I didn't do nothing.
2320:51 ((Sound similar to that of stick shaker starts.))
2320:52.3 ((Sound similar to that of an increase in prop/engine noise amplitude.))
2320:52.5 Capt.: Gimme flaps up.
2320:53.7 ((Sound similar to that of a stick shaker stops.))
2320:53.7 Capt.: No, no, hold it.
2320:54.0 ((The GPWS transmits ...Pull....))
2320:54.3 ((Sound similar to that of a stick shaker starts again and continues to the end of recording.))
2320:55.3 Capt.: Gimme flaps up.
2320:57.5 ((Sound similar to that of change in or addition to stick shaker.))
2320:58.7 Capt.: Whoa.
2321:00.2 ((Sound of impact.))