RETRIEVED FROM AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL RECORDINGS, FAIRBANKS, ALASKA.

FAI = Sam Tennison, Fairbanks Air Traffic Control

Captain Frank Benoit, AH16

First Officer Alexis Card, AH16

Flight Attendant Pete Meriwether, AH16

21:13:42.7

FAI: Aero Horizon 16, things are looking bumpy ahead of you.

CAPTAIN: We see it. How deep?

FAI: You should be through in two minutes.

CAPTAIN: Thanks, Fairbanks.

FAI: No problem.

FIRST OFFICER: Pete, can you sit them down back there?

FLIGHT ATTENDANT (INTERCOM): Us too?

(pause)

FIRST OFFICER: Everyone.

21:15:24.3

CAPTAIN: Are you seeing this?

FIRST OFFICER: (unintelligible) … flash of lightning?

CAPTAIN: But it’s just sitting there.

FIRST OFFICER: We’ve got an electrical—

CAPTAIN: Losing everything!

FIRST OFFICER: Battery kicking in.

CAPTAIN: Okay. Okay. Instruments are back.

FIRST OFFICER: What WAS that?

CAPTAIN: I’m taking us lower. We need to get under this.

21:15:50.1

(alarm)

FIRST OFFICER: Bird strike. We have bird strike.

CAPTAIN: At 28,000 feet? There’s no birds up—

FIRST OFFICER: On engine three. Flame condition.

CAPTAIN: Shut it down.

FIRST OFFICER: I’m trying.

FAI: The status of your aircraft, please.

FIRST OFFICER: We have fire in number three. Won’t shut down. Losing speed …

(stall alarm)

(auto-pilot disengage alarm)

CAPTAIN: We are in manual. Descending.

FIRST OFFICER: Okay.

CAPTAIN: I have the controls.

FIRST OFFICER: Smoke in the cockpit.

(multiple alarms)

FAI: Horizon 16, we have an emergency inbound runway available.

CAPTAIN: We’re unable.

FLIGHT ATTENDANT (INTERCOM): We have smoke in the cabin.

FIRST OFFICER: Right ahead! Another one!

FAI: I’m sorry. Say again?

CAPTAIN: We—What IS that?

(sound of metal tearing)

FIRST OFFICER: It’s in here with us! It’s in here with—

(sound of rushing air)

CAPTAIN: She’s (unintelligible) gone.

(sound of tearing metal, rushing air)

21:16:14.2

FAI: Horizon 16, radar contact is lost.

(unintelligible)

FAI: Horizon 16, are you still on?

(rushing air)

FAI: Horizon 16?

(radio contact lost)

End of transcript. Cause of crash as yet undetermined.

No black box found. No wreckage found.

No survivors found.