If you have an ounce of empathy, hearing someone scream in terror and narrate their final moments will affect you negatively. The pilot is aware of the situation the entire time.

In every thread on this not a single person I have expressed anything other than regret for having heard it

Yeah, usually i listen to stuff like that. I watch a lot of those youtube videos where pilots break down plane crashes from their perspective and sometimes you hear the audio from inside the cockpit. Usually that stuff doesnt affect me too bad but im fighting to resist the urge to listen.

I think the worst crash i learned about was when maintenance let a rear stabilizer go 20 years without so much as a checkup and the screw that controls the positioning of the rear stabilizer ran out of lube and stripped all the threads off mid flight causing the plane to lose all pitch control.

You could really hear the emotion in the pilots voice as they realized they were now riding a terrifying rollercoaster with no control over their altitude.

I actually think they may have survived which is insane, they had to try to control the pitch of the plane with the engine throttles, if you start going down then increase engines until you start going up again and if you go up to fast then decrease throttle.

Absolute insanity, i think they lived but if that had happened in the middle of a thunder storm while the plane was covered in ice there would be no chance.

It seems i combined two different incidents in my memory, the one where the pilot controled the plane via engine throttle was united airlines flight 232, out of 285 passengers and 11 crew 175 passengers and 10 crew survived the crash landing.

The other incident with loss of rear stabilizer control was alaska airlines flight 261 and all 88 people on board died when the plane crashed in the pacific ocean.

It might also affect you positively. Memento mori.

> In every thread on this not a single person I have expressed anything other than regret for having heard it

That's because most people who don't feel the need to be overdramatic also don't need to feel the need to comment about it.

It's just hard on the soul. You hear someone professional, who we'd usually look to as the adult in the room, quickly unraveling.

She goes from the confident pilot speak to panicked reports to starting to scream and hyperventilate, while doing her best to recover and communicate what's happening to the tower. At some point you hear them acknowledge that it's too late and they're all going to die. And then one last scream before suddenly cutting out.

It's just that gut-wrenching empathy and feeling of helplessness.

I would personally say that people should listen to this stuff, though. Life is hard and fragile, and even though it's hard, empathizing with this suffering makes sure we understand the real costs of our mistakes.

I saw way too many dismiss a million deaths by COVID. So many people bat their eyes at 100 people dying in a plane crash now. If they heard the recordings of these kinds of last moments, I think we'd be at less risk of our (moral/procedural) standards slipping.

Yes i fully agree with you, because of the warnings i was very hesitant to listen to the audio and after learning it was a woman pilot i was even more hesitant. But i have now heard it and it was absolutely awful but not any worse than some of the other crash audio i have listened to. I believe its important for the living to carry the burden of the dead. The dead deserve to have their story told and listened to and the living owe at least that much to the dead.

He is being overdramatic. It's pretty bening as far as what you can find on the Internet goes.