Laura Miers

Laura Miers

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This is part of the flight transcript from a doomed flight that killed all 8 people on board in North Carolina. The pilot reported having Covid recently. He became “disoriented & confused.” The FAA blamed “inadequate planning” and “distraction.”

Intra-Aircraft communication - Time & source 
18:25:29.3 HOT-? (Unintelligible passenger voices) 
18:25:40.8 (sound of sigh) 
18:25:42.2 (cough cough) “let’s get thirty five hundred feet.”
18:25:47.8 (sound of sniffing) 
18:25:56.0 “I messed up” (spoken under breath) Flight transcript: 18:27:13.2 HOT-2 “Not—oh uhhh did I do ** dang” 
18:27:17.2 HOT 2: (Sorry)
18:27:18.5 HOT-1: “We’ll get it later.” 
18:27:20.4 HOT-2 “Insert seven whiskey six KMRH insert active yeah yeah yeah” 
18:27:29.8 HOT 1-(sound of exasperated exhale) 
18:27:33.2 HOT-1 “alright” (sound of six coughs) (Laura highlighted this in yellow)