00:06For more than 20 years, I have worked analyzing aircraft black box recordings.
00:12I've heard voices that can never be forgotten, and screams that have never left my memory.
00:17But there are some recordings, that were never released.
00:21Not only because they were classified, but because no one who heard them could explain what they contained.
00:27What you are about to hear in this series is a collection of fictional stories inspired by the world of
00:32black box investigations, where every recording becomes a mystery, and every flight turns into a nightmare.
00:43Flight 914.
00:45In the field of aviation accident investigation, there is an unwritten rule.
00:50The past never returns.
00:53But in the summer of 2000, a faded orange-black box was delivered to me.
00:58Its surface was covered with old burn marks, as if it had been struck by lightning.
01:03The recorder belonged to a Douglas DC, four-passenger aircraft that had disappeared in 1955 shortly after taking off from
01:11New York.
01:12Its whereabouts remained a mystery for decades until its wreckage was suddenly discovered in a remote region deep within the
01:18dense jungles of Venezuela.
01:20When I inserted the magnetic recording tape into the digital analysis system, I expected to hear the sound of impact,
01:27or at least a distress call.
01:29Instead, there was only complete silence.
01:33The first few minutes contained nothing but the calm, steady breathing of the captain and his first officer.
01:39Then,
01:42According to the recording timestamp, the psychological horror began.
01:46The attached flight data showed something impossible.
01:51The aircraft's total weight suddenly dropped to zero for a full five seconds, as though gravity itself had completely vanished
01:58both inside and outside the airplane, yet its altitude never changed.
02:02During those five seconds, the cockpit microphone captured the sound of collective laughter coming from the passenger cabin.
02:09It wasn't normal laughter.
02:12It sounded like hundreds of voices laughing together at the exact same moment, in the exact same time, as though
02:19they were a single living entity.
02:21The captain's voice suddenly breaks the silence, trembling with fear.
02:26The radar can't detect us anymore, but I can see shadows moving across the clouds outside, enormous shadows flying alongside
02:33us.
02:34The first officer replies, his voice filled with terror.
02:39Captain, the passengers, they've all stopped talking.
02:43I turned around, they're still sitting in their seats without moving, and none of them has a shadow.
02:49The sunlight is passing through the windows, and straight through their bodies.
02:53The recorded flight data then revealed that the magnetic compass began spinning wildly out of control, while the radio equipment
03:01suddenly froze, causing every instrument to fail.
03:04Moments later, another sound filled the cockpit.
03:08It resembled a massive ocean wave crashing against the aircraft's fuselage.
03:13Despite the airplane flying 20,000 feet above the ground.
03:18In the final moments of the recording, everything suddenly became quiet.
03:23Then the captain spoke the words that shocked me more than anything else I had ever heard.
03:28We're not falling, we're arriving.
03:30They're opening the door, from the outside.
03:34Then.
03:35The transmission ended.
03:37The.
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