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May 7, 1964 – Pacific Air Lines
“Skipper’s shot! We’ve been shot. I was trying to help.”
June 30, 1967 – Thai International
“I have no radar contact with you.”
January 5, 1969 – Ariana Afghan Airlines
“We’re finished!”
July 5, 1970 – Air Canada
“Pete, sorry.”
December 29, 1972 – Eastern Air Lines
“Hey, what’s happening here?”
March 27, 1977 – Pan Am/KLM
“There he is…look at him! Goddamn that son-of-a-bitch is coming! Get off!”
September 25, 1978 – Pacific Southwest Airlines
“Ma, I love you.”
December 23, 1978 – Alitalia
“So he gave us wrong indications. We thought we were to the left.”
December 28, 1978 – United Airlines
“United 173, Mayday! We’re…the engines are flaming out — we’re going down!”
November 28, 1979 – Air New Zealand
“Actually, these conditions don’t look very good at all, do they?”
August 19, 1980 – Saudi Arabian Airlines
“No need for that, we are okay, no problem, no problem.”
January 13, 1982 – Air Florida
“Larry, we’re going down, Larry…” “I know it!”
June 8, 1988 – VASP
“What? There’s what? Some hills, isn’t there?”
August 31, 1986 – Aeromexico
“Oh, this can’t be! Oh, this can’t be!”
May 9, 1987 – LOT Polish Airlines
“Goodnight, goodbye, we perish!”
November 28, 1987 – South African Airways
“We have, er, a smoke problem and we are doing an emergency descent!”
August 31, 1988 – Delta Airlines
“We got an engine failure. We’re not gonna make it. Full power…”
February 8, 1989 – Independent Air
“Can’t keep this SOB thing straight up and down.”
February 24, 1989 – United Airlines
“What the hell was that?” “I don’t know.”
June 7, 1989 – Surinam Airways
“That’s it, I’m dead.”
August 18, 1993 – American International Airways
“There it goes, there it goes! Oh no!”
April 26, 1994 – China Airlines
“It’s OK, it’s OK, don’t hurry, don’t hurry.”
September 8, 1994 – USAir
“Hang on. What the hell is this?”
October 31, 1994 – American Eagle
“OK, mellow it out, mellow it out.”
December 13, 1994 – American Eagle
“Why’s that ignition light on? We just had a flame-out?”
August 21, 1995 – Atlantic Southeast Airlines
“Amy, I love you.”
December 20, 1995 – American Airlines
“Uh…where are we.”
May 11, 1996 – Valujet
“Uh, smoke in the cockpit…smoke in the cabin.”
August 29, 1996 – Vnokovo Airlines
“Mountains!”
October 2, 1996 – Aeroperu
“What shit have they done?”
February 16, 1998 – China Airlines
“Oh my God! Oh my God!”
October 31, 1999 – Egypt Air
“I rely on God.”
January 31, 2000 – Alaska Airlines
“Ah here we go.”
July 4, 2001 – Vladivostokavia
“That’s all guys! Fuck!”
September 11, 2001 – United Airlines
“When they all come, we finish it off.”
November 12, 2001 – American Airlines
“What the hell are we into? We’re stuck in it.”
June 22, 2003 – Brit Air
“I have nothing in front of me.”
August 27, 2006 – Comair
“That’s weird with no lights.”
June 1, 2009 – Air France
“Damn it, we’re going to crash…this can’t be happening!”
April 10, 2010 – Polish Air Force
“Fuuuuuuuuck!”
