Two days after the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash that crashed in Kazakhstan and caused 38 deaths, they have come to light the last conversation the pilot had with the control tower moments before the disaster.
The plane had left Baku bound for the Russian city of Gronzi. There were 69 people on board and everything seems to indicate that was attacked by a Russian surface-to-air missileas stated yesterday by the Azerbaijan authorities cited by the Efe agency. Although the causes that caused the emergency landing will not be known until the official investigation concludes.
“Bird impact in the cockpit” according to the pilot
According to the Mirror newspaper, which has had access to the transcript of the last conversation between the pilot and the control tower, the pilots reported at 8:12 that the GPS had been lost and they asked for help to orient yourself. At 8:16 one of the pilots said: “We have a control failure, bird strike in the cabin. Bird impact on the cabin (inaudible)…” Ground control responded: “AXY8243 I understand you, what kind of help do you need?”
The captain indicated that His intention was to return to Baku, but at 8:17 the pilot reported that he was heading to Mineralnye Vody, an airport in southern Russia.
It was at that moment when the control tower told him to make “a left turn”, but from the cockpit they reported: “I can’t run, control is lost”. Two minutes later one of the pilots stated: “I can’t maintain 150, we have high pressure in the cabin.” At 8:20 they pronounced: “360 to the left, “My plane is losing control.”.
The pilot indicated that everything was in order, but the plane disappeared for 37 minutes
In the following minutes, the pilots reported other failures such as the hydraulic system, although at 8:24 the pilot said that “the plane is in order.” But from the ground they cannot hear him correctly: “It is very difficult to hear you, tell me your altitude.”
From this moment on, The plane disappeared for 37 minutes and reappeared when trying to land in Aktau.
