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Cockpit Voice Recording

Northwest Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-80 -> Flight 255

Detroit Metropolitan Airport

Flaps not in takeoff configuration

169 Deaths

[Takeoff]

[Stickshaker starts and continues through end of recording]

AWS: Beep Beep Beep Beep......Stall

AWS: Beep Beep Beep Beep Beep Beep......Stall

AWS: Beep Beep Beep Beep......Stall

CA: Oh, ****

AWS: Beep Beep Beep Beep......Stall

[Sound of wing hitting light post]

[Sound of full impact]