According to press articles (i.e. not all that "accurate"). The CVR recordings content seems to have leaked.
-10 seconds of alarms (multiple alarms) on the CVR before the crash.
-Voice of pilots hardly audiable due to voice and horn alarms sounding at the same time. It seems the pilots comments can not be figured out (audiable) in the last moments.
-The article speaks of "5 fatal seconds" later on, when the "plane couldn't lift up". It's my personal understanding that the plane took aprox. 7 seconds from the time all the wheels left the ground until some part of it (officially the tail cone but some witnesses and survivors speak of a wing) "briefly" touched the ground again.
-CIAIAC has had the proccessed audio recordings for the past >10 days. They already have the audiable part's transcripts.
-Neither the pilot nor the co-pilot called out V1.
-It seems that more and more alarms were progressively sounding (i.e. multiple faults or conditions).
-One of them was the ground proximity alarm (terrain)
-Stick shaker came on (stall warning).
-Confirmed that there was no attempt of communication with ground control since take-off permission was granted and acknowledged.
-This would've been the airplane second flight of the day, the first successful one a couple of hours before from Barcelona.
-Right reverser locked out for delayed manteinance is confirmed in the article.
-The article mentions the RAT reaching 99 degrees measures (but again, please do not trust all this information as it's obvious the reported mixed in some of his own "knowledge").
-Notable failures noted in the maintenance log: Aug 2nd: "When thrust is applied for take-off, the pressure on the air conditioning reads zero". Aug 9th: "Message (indicator?) of auto slat fail when 11 degrees flaps" - Engineer based in Palma action taken: "System reset, test completed OK on flaps and slats functions tested several times". Aug 18th: maintenance operation by Madrid based engineer: "Autoslat system; slats are extended. Systems resetted and tests OK" - Pilot replied: "Red light slat failure indicator hasn't come on (again?)" - Technician replied: "Thanks for the information".
Last edited by justme69; 13th Sep 2008 at 15:18.