June 22, 2003
Near Brest, France
Brit Air, Flight 5572
Canadair CRJ-100ER
F-GRJS

The aircraft crashed onto a road and caught fire 1 km from Brest-Guipavas Airport in
France's Brittany region, killing the pilot and injuring three others.

CPT= Voice identified as Captain
FO= Voice identified as First Officer
RDO-2 = Radio transmission from First Officer
CAM= Unidentified voice
Brest= Brest controller
(*) = Word or sentence not understood
 
23:49:31 CPT Two miles posted
23:49:31 F/O landing gear
23:49:32 CPT Three green
23:49:33 F/O flaps
23:49:33 CPT 45
23:49:34 F/O reversers
23:49:35 CPT armed
23:49:35 Brest Echo Charlie cleared to land on 26 left, 320 degrees at 15 knots cloud base now lower than 100 feet
23:49:45 RDO-2 Roger so aah... we maintain runway 26 left aah Echo Charlie
23:49:51 Brest And the RVR 800 meter and 900 meters
23:49:54 RDO-2 Roger
23:49:56 F/O (*) [Oh shit, we don't have....]
23:50:03 CPT (*) (*)
23:50:09 F/O Ah shit
23:50:11 CPT Ah we didn't take it?
23:50:14 F/O Heading
23:50:14 CPT (*) (*)
23:50:17 CPT Oh we will see eh
23:50:19 F/O Yes, yes, yes.. exactly
23:50:19 CPT (*) 100 feet is OK
23:50:21 F/O Exactly
23:50:21 F/O Are you going around? Do you want me to put you in approach?
23:50:24 CPT Euh… No, no that's what's going to teach me. We must pass above?
23:50:29 F/O Ah no there we must pass (*)
23:50:32 CPT Fifteen hundred initial
23:50:32 F/O There it enters
23:50:43 F/O There
23:50:45 CPT The approach is selected, lock and glide
23:50:48 F/O Yes
23:50:52 CPT Less to the right
23:50:54 F/O Less
23:50:56 CPT (*) to the right
23:50:58 GPWS Five Hundred
23:50:59 GPWS Glide slope
23:51:02 GPWS Sink Rate
23:51:04 GPWS Sink Rate (and autopilot disconnection sound)
23:51:05 GPWS Three Hundred
23:51:07 GPWS Glide slope
23:51:08 GPWS Glide slope
23:51:09 GPWS Glide slope
23:51:11 F/O Yeah, pass to the right
23:51:11 GPWS Glide slope
23:51:12 CPT Yeah
23:51:12 GPWS Glide slope
23:51:13 F/O Pass to the right
23:51:13 GPWS Glide slope
23:51:14 GPWS Glide slope
23:51:15 GPWS One Hundred
23:51:16 CAM I have nothing in front of me
23:51:16 CAM Go around
23:51:19 F/O Go around
23:51:20 GPWS Sink Rate
23:51:21 GPWS Pull Up
23:51:22 F/O Go around
23:51:22   Sound of impact

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