The Russians overreacted, but the Koreans were off course. It was KAL Flight 007 that wandered off course over Soviet territory in the Far East in 1983 and was shot down all 269 people aboard died. George Black, the lead investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board, said the disaster had ""all the earmarks'' of a crash caused by ""an error on someone's part.'' Later he added: ""It's too early to talk about what or who that was.'' But if pilot error turns out to be the cause, another black mark will be entered on the safety record of Korean Air, which over the years has been the victim of both sloppy performance and sickening misfortune. But based on the evidence at hand, the Guam disaster struck some aviation experts as a classic example of ""controlled flight into terrain'' - an air crew augering its plane right into the ground. A final, formal verdict on the cause is still perhaps a year away. Investigators found no sign of mechanical or structural failure that could have caused the crash, which killed all but 29 of the 254 people aboard. The landing gear was down, suggesting that the crew expected to find a runway right in front of them, not the side of a jagged hill. island in the Pacific, without any warning of trouble ahead. The flight recorders showed that the big 747 slammed into Nimitz Hill, three miles from the airport on Guam, a tiny U.S. That much seemed clear to investigators poking through the charred remains of Korean Air Flight 801 last week. cleared ILS runway six left.THE PILOT DIDN'T KNOW WHERE he was. * heading zero nine zero intercept the localizer. Korean air eight zero one turn left heading zero niner zero join localizer. Ya, there is a big CB over there to the left. Korean eight zero one fly heading one two zero. Guam center Korean eight zero one clear of Charlie Bravo request radar vector runway six left. Korean eight zero six ah eight zero one mantain heading one six zero Guam center, Korean eight zeron one request right tur heading one six zero. Going right hand side, then getting out of the left hand side. we are supposed to be going out right hand side from here. landing data speed bug one two niner?įuel set for landing. Korean eight zero on request deviation one zero mile left of track.Ĭabin pressurization set. eight zero one is checked uniform Ĭhuckling.ĭon't you think it rains more? in this area, here? Korean air eight zero one information uniform is current at Agana now.
anyway, they make us (B747) classic guys work to maximum. Probably, this way (unintelligble words), hotel expenses will be saved for cabin crews, and maximise the flight hours. since the localizer ground slope is out, MDA is five hundred sixty feet and HAT is three hundred four feet. turning towards a course zero six two outbound heading two four two and hold as published. in case of go-around, since it is VFR, while staying visual and turning to the right. I will add some more speed above the target speed. for the TOD, I will add three miles from the VOR, and start descent when we're about one hundred fifty miles out. NIMITZ VOR is one one five three, the course is six, when we are in the visual approach, as I said before, set the VOR on number two and maintain the VOR.
Voice identified as aircraft mechanical voice Radio transmission from Guam tower controller Radio transmission from Guam center controller Voice transmitted over aircraft public address system Navigation signal identifiers heard through aircraft audio system Radio transmission from accident aircraft Items with only one entry were spoken entirely in English.Ĭockpit area microphone voice or sound source The second is typed as if it were spoken in Korean and/or English.
The first, in bold type, is translated into the English language. Items that were stated either partially or completely in the Korean language are shown as two entries. Only radio transmissions to and from the accident airplane were transcribed. Times are expressed in coordinated universal time (UTC time), which is 10 hours behind Guam local time. The CVR transcript reflects the final 31 minutes 1 second of the accident flight. The following is a transcript of the Fairchild model A-100A CVR installed on Korean Air flight 801 (a Boeing 747-300, HL7468), which crashed while approaching Guam International Airport on August 6, 1997.
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