AWE1549 CVR Transcript Leaked

A retired airline captain friend of mine sent this transcript he claimed he heard through
the cracks in the walls of the NTSB Sound Lab and copied everything down with a quill
pen made from a goose feather he found at the accident scene. He’s quite the humorist,
even when he’s not on the sauce. It’s a riot = Enjoy


Here is the transcript from the voice recorder from the Hudson
River Crash

PIC is a Pilot in Command, SIC is Second in Command, you all
know who Sully is

SIC: “Number two’s gone, boss.”

Sully: “I know it! What do I look like, an R-22 pilot (that’s
a baby helicopter a real eggbeater)? Just shut the fcker down,
boy. Oh, and tell Departure that we need to come back in and
land. F
cking birds…”
SIC: "Sheesh, somebody got up on the wrong side of his throne

this morning. You don’t have to insult me just because I got
my commercial helicopter rating in the mighty Robinson. Oh, and
by the way, sir, we’re not climbing, if you even care. Maybe
your decision to take on that extra 5,000 pounds of fuel wasn’t
so hot, Captain."

Sully: “One more comment like that and I’ll make sure the union
keeps you in RJ’s for the rest of your miserable, short career.”

<Bang!>

Sully: “SON OF A BITCH!”

SIC: “Number one’s failing, boss.”

Sully: “I can see that! Am I a-f*cking-sleep? Can I not read
the gauges? Am I not flying the plane here?”

SIC: “I’m just sayin’…”

Sully: “Goddamn Canadians, sending their fcking geese down here
every winter. Why, if I ever
see* another Canadian I’m gonna
punch him right in the throat. IHATE Canadians.”

SIC: “Everybody does,boss… Think we can make Teterboro or
straight-in to 22 at Newark?”

Sully: “Yeah,probably. But fck Teterboro! Let’s go to Newark
. I’ve flown out of Teterboro. Short damn runways…always a crosswind.
And their FBO’s suck. I’d rather land in the Hudson f
cking
river than land at Teterboro. Hey…”

SIC: “You’re not…”

Sully: “Why not? Maybe we can take out some sail boats with some
prick Canadian snowbirds.”

SIC: “You ever land on the water before?”

Sully: “Plenty of times! I got my seaplane rating back in 1946.
I think it was in a…Piper…something or another, I forget.
Never mind. It’ll all come back to me. Pull out the Before Water
Landing checklist and run it.”

SIC: (flipping through the stack ofchecklists) “Can’t seem to
find one for that.”

Sully: “Fooled ya! HAH! There ain’t one! Just get on the horn
and tell the people to put their heads between their legs and
kiss…no wait, that won’t sound good on on the CVR tape…make
it, ‘brace for collision’…no wait, make it ‘brace for impact.’
Yeah, that’s better. No wait! Tell them that out the left side
of the plane they can seethe Intrepid Museum , and that if they’d
like to visit it, they’ll be able to, this afternoon, like, in
about twenty minutes. Oh, and ring the stews and have them bring
me a rum and coke. If I’m gonna do this, I need a good stiff
drink. And have that one with the big tits bring it up. If I’m
gonna die, I wanna die drunk and with a boner.”

SIC: “Like your grandfather did?”

Sully: “This is no time to make jokes, son. I would really appreciate
it if you’d try to take this situation seriously. I’m fairly
certain that my grandfatherdid not die with a boner. I mean,
have you ever met mygrandmother?”

SIC: “You know, if you pull this off CNN will be calling you
the Hero Pilot of theYear.”

Sully: “F*ck CNN. Liberal bastards. All I care about is what
the fair-and-balanced Fox News will call me. I hope Fox News
calls me a hero!”

SIC: (sighing) “They probably will too. Nobody will remember
my name. It’ll be’Sully this’…and, ‘Sully that.’ 'Captain
Sully, the big fcking hero.’ Like you are the only fcking one
in the cockpit.”

Sully: “You’re quite bitter. You really are a helicopter pilot
at heart, aren’t you? You know, some pilots wait their whole
career to be called a hero. I mean, Christ, I’ve only got two
years to go to retirement. That was close!”

SIC: “We’re not down yet, Captain Skygod.”

Sully: “I know, this thing glides pretty well, huh? Dammit,
no sail boats. Oh well, let’s see if we can buzz one of those
damn sightseeing helicopters. What’s best-glide/engines out?”

SIC: “Beats the shit out of me.”

Sully: “Vref?”

SIC: “F*ck if I know.”

Sully: “Britney Spear’s birthday?”

SIC: “December 2,1981.”

Sully: “Well, I’m glad you know SOMETHING! Just gimme full flaps…”

[END OF RECORDING CAUSE IT GOT ALL WET]

Wow- sounds similar to the conversations between me and my second in command. Minus the crashing part

:open_mouth: ok some jokes are funny and some arent. this one isnt.

I think it’s funny - not laugh out loud funny but still funny. Could have done without the curse words.

If there had been fatalities on the flight when this came it then it would have been in very poor taste.

What happened to your sense of humor globe? You thought “US1549 departing Pier 17” was hilarious…

Pretty corny, but not un-funny.

To each his own, I suppose…

yup just dont think that one is funny. still got my sense of humor, that one just didnt make me laugh.

yea, it just didnt make me laugh, you are right to each his own.

giving full credit to dave letterman, us airways has announced new service from laguardia to the theater district. take off from laguardia and 3 minutes later land on the hudson, in the theater district. ok was that one was so funny i fell out of my bed laughing when i heard that one last night.

I think that one was funny. this joke rubbed me the wrong way. so what are you up to?, havent heard from you in a while?

Pilots that fly two crew can laugh at this. especially if you’ve flown with an older pilot that like to talk about the “good ol’ days”

For all you non-pilots I can see where the humor escapes you.

yea, i have found most of the jokes funny lately, and you are right about the pilot vs. non-pilot thing. so flyboy what do you fly? just curious

How can you not think this is funny? The sarcastic mocking of Sully’s casual coolness in a potentially disastrous situation is hilarious! “Britney Spear’s birthday?” Good stuff with some unnecessary language.

If there were fatalities, then I do not think anyone would do this, nor would letterman, leno. Due to the outcome, now we can joke about it, to a degree.

That’s what great about this country, I can joke about it to any degree regardless of the situation, tasteless as it may seem to someone.

LR-35

Ever fly a modern airplane? :wink:

BURN!!!

As A fellow old Lear pilot I must rebuttal.

“Not very often they are usually at the service center” OR “Real jets, like women have round displays with nobs not flat panels w/ buttons.” 8)

My other choice was “Hey, is the attitude indicator in that thing solid black with a white line across it just like I saw in all those old World War II airplanes because your airplane is like, old and stuff and they hadn’t even figured out to paint it brown and blue yet” but I think I made the right choice…

The only airplane I ever flew that just flat out would not break was a 14 year old Citation V. Flew that thing for a little over a year and just could not make it stop working. Got very annoying having to actually fly the thing all the time.