DHL Boeing 737 Crashes Into Residential Area: ATC Audio Captures Cargo Plane Approach Into Airport

[@minotaurus866]

ATC cleared them to 2700ft and Postman read back 2300ft.

[@C0L0RMAN]

QNH reed back is incorrect too

[@samiraperi467]

A mistake but I don't see it being a CFIT.

[@Molon_Labe1776]

Sounded, to me at least, that the read back was 2,500 feet.

[@minotaurus866]

@@Molon_Labe1776 @Ste-sr8tl The readbck very clearly is 2300ft. The audio is crystal clear.

[@haydenbrown8421]

I heard 2300 feet.

[@ced3901]

So many things wrong here... 1. 00:24, the pilot read QNH back 1019 instead of 1020, controller does not correct back! 2. 01:05, Descending 2700fr instructed, the pilot clearly read back something else (seems to me 2300 or 2500) 3. 01:23, the pic read back wrong frequency for tower. Maybe the reason why we have 0 communication on last seconds. He was on the wrong freq perhaps? Why does the approach control leave it without correcting? It's a shared responsibility. They had wrong QNH, wrong altitude, wrong freq ...

[@mercedesclasnic3263]

FQ was correct

[@WolfyOfHonor]

Well, let's wait for investigation first

[@PRH123]

@@WolfyOfHonorpeople are here to discuss and share ideas, why should they wait two years for a final report? I find the comment above to be quite informative.

[@737rambler]

True, but this isn’t stuff that causes to planes to crash/CFIT

[@PRH123]

@@737rambler it can if there’s a hill between the plane and the airport on the approach path

[@ViliusM]

At the end of this recording, one of the pilots on the ground asked the dispatcher in lithuanian what had happened and what kind of plane had crashed.

[@ernisj.8087]

One guy crue member confirmed dead. One Lithuanian, German and Spanish survived the crash. One of them in bad condition, medics fighting for his live.Pray for him.😢 On the crash site couple building distroyde. None people on the ground got injured.

[@tuuchen2990]

Approach suddenly shifted to flying the plane

[@ATCSpotlight]

Ooops. My bad! Thanks for catching!

[@ATCSpotlight]

I did think hard about that and was hoping that was the co-pilot speaking. Since they were with tower, the response did confuse me a little.

[@CoreFreddy]

@@ATCSpotlight No problem, we saw it and understood that right. Thanks for posting!

[@rimtasvilnietis2991]

Dispachers will be jailed for this mistake?

[@kailaniandi]

Another one?

[@ViTAR30]

Why telling in Thousand/Hundred and not like 4 digits Two Seven Zero Zero? I hear something like Two Thousand Twenty Hundred (nonsense), which could be even 2000, but also 2300. When those people learn how top speak english and understand each other? Not pretending speaking english fluently thus fast, just speak slower, articulate. In such low quality of audio, I don't understand how they understand what is said or heard, it's like medical writings no one can read.

[@Fs3i]

Pilots generally understand each other and ATC. There's specific phraseology you need to learn. Generally, this isn't a problem within Europe. In America, where everyone speaks English, phraseology is usually worse. You get used to it, it's a skill you get when learning to fly a plane or controlling traffic.

[@rimtasvilnietis2991]

Boeing ?

[@paulantony4598]

ATC says to descend to 2700 ft & the pilot replies back 'ok will descend to 2300 ft'..wtf?? 🤦‍♂️🕳

So why did they select 2700 ft on their autopilot? Sounds to me like the pilot didn't enunciate properly.

[@rimtasvilnietis2991]

English level: potato master 9000

[@FallenAngel53]

The engliah language or lack of it doesn't help on this one. Both ends.

[@Redmisas262]

Real audio? 😮 Jes?

[@MrStian78]

Yes

[@Redmisas262]

@MrStian78 super