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Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 08:56:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Lee Rudolph <lrudolph@panix.com>
Subject: "From An Airliner's Black Box: Next-to-Last Words"

http://www.nytimes.com/

(or of course you could buy a copy of the paper)

Extensive transcripts of four black-box conversations preceding majorly fatal crashes (Cali, Pittsburg, ...).

Last words seem to be evenly divided between "Oh, expletive" and "...". I think the UL is fairly well borne out.

Aside to the dirty minded: see if you think some of the by-play involving the fruit cocktail ingredients is reminiscent of any story you might have heard. Likewise with the captain going to piss.