The recent spotlight on Blackwater and contractor accountability led Der Spiegel to print the transcript of a 2004 Blackwater transport flight in Afghanistan. The crew diverted their mission into a joyride through a canyon which ended badly. It gives a sense of the rules and beliefs some of these guys are operating under. It's morbid -- and completely transfixing -- reading.
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The transcript and recording start at 0318:37 (7:18:37 a.m. local time)
PILOT: I hope I'm goin' in the right valley.
CO-PILOT: That one or this one?
PILOT: I'm just gunna go up this one.
CO-PILOT: Well, we, we've never or at least I've never done this Farah.
PILOT: We'll just see where this leads.
CO-PILOT: Twenty seven million people in this country, boy, you wouldn't wouldn't guess that cause there just everybody's scattered out.
PILOT: Yeah.
PILOT: But I'm now I mean I was really surprised at how you can almost always look down and see somebody or somethin' er.
CO-PILOT: Yeah, yeah, there's seem to be dwellings just about every where you go.
CO-PILOT: Yeah this is fun!
PILOT: We're not suppose to be havin' fun though.
CO-PILOT: Exactly.
PILOT: No fun allowed god-(expletive).
CO-PILOT: It's supposed to be all work we can't enjoy any of it.
PILOT: Exactly.
CO-PILOT: Cause we're getting' paid too much to be havin' fun.
PILOT: You're god-(unintelligible) right.
...
MECHANIC: I don't know what we're gonna see, we don't normally go this route.
MALE PASSENGER: (expletive).
MECHANIC: Let me get out of the way.
MALE PASSENGER: Naw I'm alright.
MECHANIC: Get yourself a drink.
PILOT: All we want is to avoid seeing rock at twelve o'clock.
PILOT: (unintelligible).
CO-PILOT: Yeah you're an x-wing fighter Star Wars man!
PILOT: You're (expletive) right.
PILOT: This is fun!
...
PILOT: Okay, it's about time we're gunna start climbin' I do believe.
PILOT: Okay we're comin up to a box up here.
PILOT: Yeah I think this valley might peter out right up here.
CO-PILOT: Yeah it shows us ah you got about twelve I don't know thirty miles of ah higher altitude, then there's another valley in the general direction that we're going.
PILOT: Yeah, peters right on out.
PILOT: It was good while it lasted.
...
PILOT: Yeah. It'd be nice to get a real good through my MP3 player in here.
CO-PILOT: (expletive) yeah.
CO-PILOT: That'll be great.
PILOT: Phillip Glass or somethin' suitable new age'y.
CO-PILOT: No, we gotta have butt rock that's the only way to go. Quiet Riot, Twisted Sister.
...
PILOT: I swear to God they wouldn't pay me if they knew how much fun this was.
...
PILOT: Well let's kind of look and see if we've got any where we can pick our way thru. Doesn't really matter it's gunna spit us out down at the bottom anyway.
PILOT: Let's see find a notch over here.
PILOT: Yeah, if we have to go to fourteen for just a second it won't be too bad.
CO-PILOT: Yeah.
UNIDENTIFIED VOICE: Whoa, whoa!
UNIDENTIFIED VOICE: There you go.
CO-PILOT: Boy, it's a good thing we're not too heavy today I guess.
PILOT: Yeah, oh, I wouldn't have done this if we were at gross.
PILOT: We can always turn around up in here.
CO-PILOT: Yeah we could we could do a one eighty here if we had to.
PILOT: Come on baby, come on baby, you can make it.
MECHANIC: Okay, you guys are gunna make this right?
PILOT: Yeah h-h-I'm hopin'.
MECHANIC: Hope we don't have a downdraft comin' over that, dude.
(Sound similar to stall warning tone single beep)
MECHANIC: Got a way out?
PILOT: Yeah.
PILOT: We we can do a one eighty up in here.
MECHANIC: Yeah, I'd pick one side or the other to... ah.
PILOT: Drop a drop a quarter flaps.
PILOT: (expletive).
MECHANIC: Okay, yeah, you're... ah.
CO-PILOT: Yeah let's turn around.
PILOT: Yeah, drop a quarter flaps.
MECHANIC: Yeah you need to--ah--make a decision.
(Sound of heavy breathing starts)
PILOT: God (expletive)!
MECHANIC: Hundred, ninety knots, call off his airspeed for him (unintelligible).
(sound similar to stall warning starts and continues until end)
PILOT: Ah (expletive, expletive)!
MECHANIC: Call it off, help him out, call off his airspeed for him (unintelligible) butch.
CO-PILOT: You got ninety-five.
CO-PILOT: Ninety-five.
PILOT: Oh God!
PILOT: Oh (expletive)!
MECHANIC: We're goin' down.
UNIDENTIFIED VOICE: God!
UNIDENTIFIED VOICE: God!
(End of recording: 0350:00, 7.50 a.m. local time)
Source: National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB)
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