This CVR report was posted on alt.disasters.aviation. The following
is from the efforts of A. I. Sarac.
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"Last Friday a Turkish daily newspaper published the voice recorder 
transcripts 
of the crashed Birgen Air plane. Translation is mine(Turkish-English). I 
apologize for some possible mistakes or unclarities that may result due to my 
lack of knowledge in both aviation jargon and the possible meanings of some 
(piloting-)actions."
                      A. I. Sarac
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TIME : 23.41.40

- Second Pilot (SP) : Nice flight Sir.
- Captain Pilot (CP) : Press the EPR button.
- SP : OK.
- SP : Thrust has been adjusted
- CP : OK, has been checked.
- SP : 80 knots
- CP : Has been checked, OK.

TIME 23.42.26

- CP : My speed indicator is not working.
- SP : Yes.
- SP : Yours is not working.
- SP : 120 knots (reads out the speed)
- CP : Is yours working ?
- SP : Yes Sir.
- CP : You tell me. [the speed]
- SP : Vee one  
- SP : Pull up nose.
- CP : Positive climbing, pull up landing gear.
- SP : Positive climbing.
- SP : Landing gears are up.
- SP : LNAV ? (engaging the computer in which the flight route that has been 
fed into)
- CP : Yes please.
- SP : LNAV.
- CP : Yes.

TIME : 23.43.00

- SP : Your speed indicator has started to work.
- CP : Is it possible to stop the wipers ?
- SP : OK, wipers have been stopped.
- CP : Go over to climb thrust.
- SP : VNAV.
- SP : OK, flap speed.
- CP : Flaps five degrees.
- CP : Flaps one degree.
- SP : Flaps to one degree.
- CP : Close landing gear handle. [I am not sure if got the word 'handle' 
right. However all the other meanings of the actual Turkish word make even 
less sense to me. The other equivalent word would be 'arm'. Is the closing of 
the landing gear hatch meant by it ?]
- SP : Close landing gear handle.
- CP : Flaps up, zero degrees.
- SP : Flaps up, zero degrees.
- CP : After take off check list.
- SP : After take off check list, landing gears up and closed, flaps up zero 
degrees, checked, altimeter [I guess meant is altitude meter] later, after 
take off check list has been completed.
- CP : OK.
- CP : Autopilot please
- SP : Autopilot engaged.
- CP : Thank you.
- CP : One, zero, one, three.
- SP : One, zero, one, three.
- CP : Tail rudder ratio adjuster, [some jargon which is neither Turkish nor 
English and therefore not translatable by me] and speed adjuster.
- SP : Tail rudder ratio adjuster, [...] and speed adjuster.
- CP : There is something which is not going well, there are problems.
- SP : Straight to Pokeg (as in we are taking direct course to the town of 
Pokeg).
- CP : OK, there is some nonsense, see it ?
- SP : There is a nonsense. Right now mine shows only 200 knots and is getting 
less Sir.
- CP : Both are wrong. What can we do ?
- CP : Let's check the fuses.
- SP : Yes.
- CP : Alternate should be right. (a device that works directly and 
mechanically with the outer air and is less likely to malfunction. Used in 
case of a malfunction of the electronic system.)
- SP : The alternate should be [or is] right.
- CP : Something always happens to planes when they are on the 
ground and are not flying.
- CP : Elevator.(small wings on both sides of the tail which enables the 
pitch)
- CP : We are not to trust it.
- Flight engineer (FE) : Should I reset the fuses ?
- CP : Yes do it.
- FE : To find out the reason.
- CP : Yes.
** Excessive speed warning siren comes ON **
- CP : OK, not to worry.
- CP : Let's reduce speed and see.
** Excessive speed warning siren goes OFF **
- SP : Our speed is now 350 knots.
- CP : Let's do this, this way.

TIME : 23.45.50
** Warning siren comes ON in a sequence of four short bursts **

TIME : 23.45.52
** Stick shaker gets activated **
** Warning siren comes ON in a sequence of four short bursts **
- SP : Sir !
- SP : Give more thrust.
- CP : Disengage auto pilot, has the auto pilot been disengaged ?
- SP : Disengaged, disengaged Sir.
- FE : ADI
- CP : What else should I do but climb ?
- SP : We can go over to horizontal flight, I am pressing to altitude hold Sir.
- CP : Press, press.
- SP : OK, I pressed.
- SP : Yes, we are at five thousand feet.
- CP : Thrust handles, thrust, thrust, thrust, thrust.
- SP : Cut. [don't know what is meant by it]
- CP : Thrust, don't pull back, don't pull back, don't pull back, don't pull 
back.
- SP : OK, thrust is open, it's open [I guess he means full thrust by 'open'], 
Bismillahrrahmanirahim.
- CP : Don't pull back, please don't pull back.
- SP : It's open Sir, it's open.
- SP : ....
- FE : Sir, pull the stick towards yourself.
- CP : What is going on ?
- SP : God, what is going on ?

TIME : 23.47.09
** Voice warnings come on telling that the plane is coming dangerously close 
to the ground. These warnings continue till the end.**

TIME : 23.47.13

- SP : Let's do this, this way.

End of record, plane hits water at 23.47.17.

Any questions and comments are welcome.

A. I. SARAC
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
e8825609@stud1.tuwien.ac.at

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