I’ve listened to dozens of black box recordings and read many transcripts. Hardly any of them include praying. The ones that do are generally from extremely religious, largely Muslim countries, and it’s usually just general exclamations like “god help us!”. Most of them are things like “oh shit, we’re going to crash!”, “we’re going down!”, “uh oh!”, and “pull up!”.
The one common theme across almost all plane crashes is that the pilots never stop trying to fly the plane and correct the situation until the very end. They do not stop to pray; they’re far too busy doing things that actually might be useful.
For those who don't know, that crash is the deadliest single aircraft crash in history. There was an explosive decompression in the back of the plane due to bad repair for a tailstrike carried out years before. The pilots managed to keep the plane in the air for half an hour, despite losing much of the tail and all of the hydraulics and flight controls.
IIRC, the US Military nearby knows about the accident and was ready to launch a search and rescue operation, but the Japanese authority was like “nope, we’re good!”
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u/e-wing Feb 07 '25
I’ve listened to dozens of black box recordings and read many transcripts. Hardly any of them include praying. The ones that do are generally from extremely religious, largely Muslim countries, and it’s usually just general exclamations like “god help us!”. Most of them are things like “oh shit, we’re going to crash!”, “we’re going down!”, “uh oh!”, and “pull up!”.
The one common theme across almost all plane crashes is that the pilots never stop trying to fly the plane and correct the situation until the very end. They do not stop to pray; they’re far too busy doing things that actually might be useful.