OFFICER: Okay.
CAPTAIN: Eighty knots.
FIRST OFFICER: That checks.
CAPTAIN: V one, rotate, positive rate.
FIRST OFFICER: Gear up, please, IAS hold if you can.
CAPTAIN: Right 280, 275 radial outbound, Express 705.
FIRST OFFICER: Check. I don’t think you got out.
CAPTAIN: 275 radial outbound, Express 705.
FIRST OFFICER: Okay, climb, well, almost there. Climb power.
CAPTAIN: Express 705, two thousand five for six thousand, Express 705.
FIRST OFFICER: Want CMS?
CAPTAIN: Well, we appear to be safely airborne.
FIRST OFFICER: I was starting to wonder about it.
CAPTAIN: Vertical speed to 1000 feet per minute, please, or thereabouts.
FIRST OFFICER: What a goatrope, what a goatrope!
CAPTAIN: Pardon me?
FIRST OFFICER: What a goatrope back there, jeez!
[Laughter]
FIRST OFFICER: Slats retract. After takeoff checklist
[complete]. Let’s get out of here.
FLIGHT ENGINEER: Down to the line on the, after takeoff.
CAPTAIN: All right, okay.
FIRST OFFICER: I’ll come over here to get that radial.
CAPTAIN: 127.22 for Express 705. Express 705…nine nine. Express 705 is at ten three for 16,000, one six thousand. Express 705 on 27.4 They’re out to lunch. Excuse me, but have you worked at our ramp control?
[Laughter]
CAPTAIN: Victor 1 Victor.
FIRST OFFICER: Whew, I got a, oh boy, stay with us.
CAPTAIN: Taxi, Victor 1 Victor…
FIRST OFFICER: That’s Victor to one Victor, Victor one to Victor. Gee whiz. Well, that’s 23.0.
CAPTAIN: Flight level 230 for Express 705. 27.4 Express 704 on 33.0 Leaving one six direct Razorback Express 705.
FIRST OFFICER: Zero one, okay. Here we go.
CAPTAIN: That’s Crowley’s Ridge, you know about Crowley’s Ridge?
FIRST OFFICER: Naw, naw.
CAPTAIN: That’s it right there.
FIRST OFFICER: All, all this area right here?
CAPTAIN: See these trees?
FIRST OFFICER: Yeah.
CAPTAIN: That’s a natural fault line.
FIRST OFFICER: Oh, this is the New Madrid, uh…
CAPTAIN: Well, it’s part of it, yeah, but it’s much higher in elevation and the…climate is different. You drive in Arkansas, you drive right over it.
FIRST OFFICER: Well, I…
CAPTAIN: You see all those trees there, that’s it.
FIRST OFFICER: I know it, but I wonder about that. You go, Wynne, and all the, you know, stuff over here, you know, where it’s flat and you cross over that and I wondered about that. That’s not part of the no vaculight uplift and all that, that’s where? That’s further west, isn’t it?
CAPTAIN: Yeah.
FLIGHT ENGINEER: Altimeters.
FIRST OFFICER: Nines and twos here.
FLIGHT ENGINEER: After takeoff is complete.
FIRST OFFICER: Do you, uh, live over in Arkansas, Dave, or…?
CAPTAIN: Naw, I live in Fisherville.
FIRST OFFICER: Aw, Fisherville, great spot.
[Sound of hammer blows striking first officer and flight engineer]
FLIGHT ENGINEER: Ow!
FIRST OFFICER: God!
FIRST OFFICER: Oh, ah, shit.
CAPTAIN: God almighty!
FLIGHT ENGINEER: Ow!
FIRST OFFICER: What the fuck are you doing?
CAPTAIN: God, [groan] God almighty! God, God, God…
FIRST OFFICER: Get him, get him, get him.
CAPTAIN: He’s going to kill us.
FIRST OFFICER: Get him!
CAPTAIN: Get up, get him!
FLIGHT ENGINEER: I can’t, God!
UNIDENTIFIED: Stop! Hold his goddamn…
JUMP-SEAT PASSENGER: Sit down, sit down, get back in your seat, this is a real gun, I’ll kill ya.
FIRST OFFICER: Get him, get him, get him, get him, get him, get him!
AUTO WARNING HORN: Bank angle, bank angle.
FIRST OFFICER: Get him, get him, get him!
JUMP-SEAT PASSENGER: I’m gonna kill you! Hey, hey! I’ll kill ya!
AUTO WARNING HORN: Bank angle, bank angle.
CAPTAIN: Get him, get him, get him!
AUTO WARNING HORN: Bank angle, bank angle.
CAPTAIN: Yeah, get him!
AUTO WARNING HORN: Bank angle, bank angle.
FIRST OFFICER: Get him, get him, get him, Andy, I got the aeroplane!
AUTO WARNING HORN: Bank angle, bank angle.
FIRST OFFICER: Get him, Andy, get him!
AUTO WARNING HORN: Bank angle, bank angle.
[Sound of struggling in background] [Overspeed warning] [Series of clicks]
FIRST OFFICER TO CENTRE: Centre, centre, emergency! Centre, emergency!
AUTO WARNING HORN: Bank angle, bank angle.
FIRST OFFICER TO CENTRE: Centre, listen to me!
