The black box recordings caught his despair in voice. All is normal, in an effort at last-ditch peace-keeping. Still, the circumstances clearly were far but usual.
The pilots made attempts to straighten the plane’s path but in vain. Already too far gone was the Airbus A310. The aircraft’s altitude kept falling, and despite their best attempts to recover.
It crashed into the Kuznisky Alatau mountain range. Recording their last minutes exposed the crew’s hopelessness as they battled to preserve the aircraft.
They lost this fight finally. Including the pilots, the crew, and the passengers, the disaster took the life of all seventy individuals on board.
