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The blaring sound of warning alerts filled the cockpit of crashed AirAsia flight QZ8501 as pilots wrestled to stabilize the plane, authorities say.
Analysis of the plane’s black box flight recorder revealed that the crew’s voices were drowned out by the deafening noise of the alerts before the plane plunged into the sea on December 28, killing 162 people.
According to a crash investigator from Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee: “The warning alarms, we can say, were screaming, while in the background they (the pilot and co-pilot) were busy trying to recover…for some time”.
