Cockpit recorder reveals pilots' terror
The pilots of doomed TAM Airlines Flight 3054 screamed “slow down!” and “turn, turn, turn!” seconds before their Airbus A320 skidded off the runway in Sao Paulo and slammed into a building last month, flight recorder transcripts revealed today.
According to transcripts read before a congressional commission investigating air safety in Brazil, the pilots were unable to activate the spoilers - aerodynamic brakes on the plane’s wings – as it sped down the short, rain-slicked runway.
