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Date:4 oktober 1992
Time:18.28
Place:Amsterdam
plane crash ELAL in the Bijlmer
The crew of a cargo plane, El Al 1862, sends out a mayday after losing the No. 3 engine shortly after taking off from Schiphol Airport near Amsterdam. (Recording condensed into two short segments)
CREW - El Al one eight six two, Mayday! Mayday! We have an emergency.
CONTROLLER - El Al one eight six two, roger. Break, KLM 237, turn left heading 090.
CONTROLLER - One eight six two, do you wish to return to Schiphol?
CREW - Afirmative, Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!
CONTROLLER - Turn right heading two six zero, field eh... behind you, eh.... in your - to the west, eh ....distance one eight miles.
CREW - Roger, we have fire on engine number three, we have fire on engine number three.
CONTROLLER - Roger, heading two seven zero for downwind.
CREW - Two seven zero downwind.
CREW - El Al one eight six two, lost number three and number four engine, number three and number four engine.
CONTROLLER - Roger, one eight six two. Later in the recording as the plane approaches the airport attempting an emergency landing.
CONTROLLER - El Al one eight six two, continue descent one thousand five hundred feet...one thousand five hundred.
CREW - Fifteen hundred, and we have a controlling problem.
CONTROLLER - You have a controlling problem as well, roger.
CREW [In the background, in Hebrew] - Raise all the flaps, all the flaps raise.
CREW [In the background] - Ohhhhh!
CREW [In the background, in Hebrew] - Lower the gear.
CREW - Going down...eh...one eight six two, going down, going down, copied going down.
FEMALE CONTROLLER [In Dutch] - It has happened.
CONTROLLER - One eight six two, your heading,
FEMALE CONTROLLER [In Dutch] Forget it Henk, (controller’s name), he crashed.
CONTROLLER [In Dutch] - Do you see it?
FEMALE CONTROLLER [In Dutch] - I see one big fire above the city.
CONTROLLER [In Dutch] - Jesus, just at Whisky Papa Yosite (an intersection over a heavily populated area)
The 747 crashed into an 11 story building in the Bijlmermeer residential district, short of the runway, killing 47 people on the ground along with the crew of 4 on the plane. A corroded midspar fuse pin on the number three engine caused the loss of the pylon and engine leading to loss of the number four engine and damage to the controls causing the aircraft to crash.
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