A few years ago a US AIR airplane crashed near Pittsburgh. The cause of that crash was a mystery, because the plane just seemed to fall from the sky. So it was with great interest that the investigators listened to the information recorded in the plane’s black box. CNN played a portion of that recording on the air, revealing that there were just a few seconds from the time the pilot detected trouble until the plane crashed. The black box revealed these sounds from the cockpit:
First, there was an “Oh,” followed by profanity and a string of “curse words,” then came the crash and silence. (2)
It was in those final moments that the pilot’s real habits and life message was laid bare before the whole
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