15:59:32 CAM-1 Okay, your throttles.好的,你来控制油门
15:59:35 [SOUND OF ENGINE SPOOLUP]引擎转速迅速上升声
15:59:49 CAM-1 Holler if you need the wipers.打开雨刷吧
15:59:51 CAM-1 It's spooled. Real cold, real cold.被捲起来了。天气真冷
15:59:58 CAM-2 God, look at that thing. That don't seem right, does it? Uh, that's not right.看。那看起来不正常啊?嗯,读数好像是错的
16:00:09 CAM-1 Yes it is, there's eighty.没有错啊,有80节啊
16:00:10 CAM-2 Naw, I don't think that's right. Ah, maybe it is.不,可能不对吧……好吧,也许是对的。
16:00:21 CAM-1 Hundred and twenty. 120节
16:00:23 CAM-2 I don't know.我不知道
16:00:31 CAM-1 V1. Easy, V2.V1,冷靜,V2
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16:00:39 [SOUND OF STICKSHAKER STARTS AND CONTINUES UNTIL IMPACT]直到撞击之前都有震杆器震杆声
16:00:41 TWR Palm 90 contact departure control.佛罗里达90联系离场管制
16:00:45 CAM-1 Forward, forward, easy. We only want five hundred.向前推,向前推,冷靜,持續保持500英尺
16:00:48 CAM-1 Come on forward....forward, just barely climb.快点向前推,保持一点点爬升就好!
16:00:59 CAM-1 Stalling, we're falling! 失速了,我们在往下掉!
16:01:00 CAM-2 Larry, we're going down, Larry.... 賴瑞,我们要下坠了,賴瑞…
16:01:01 CAM-1 I know! 我知道!
16:01:01 [SOUND OF IMPACT]撞击声
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失事客机載有74名乘客和5名機組人員,當客機墜毀在冰封的波托馬克河中,只有4名乘客和1名空服員成功浮出水面,並且緊緊抓住漂浮的機體殘骸,最後在平民和專業人士的協助下成功獲救。其中1名乘客為46歲的小阿蘭·D·威廉姆斯(Arland D. Williams, Jr.)因為協助營救倖存者,但他體力不支導致溺斃罹難。幾天之后,里根總統在國情咨文演講中曾讚揚了救難團隊的表現。