00:46:02
Commentator Peter Mulgrew: "This is Peter Mulgrew speaking again folks. I still can't see very much at the moment. Keep you informed soon as I see something that gives me a clue as to where we are. We're going down in altitude now and it won't be long before we get quite a good view."
00:46:35
Flight Engineer Gordon Brooks: "Where's Erebus in relation to us at the moment?"
Mulgrew: "Left, about 20 or 25 miles."
Unidentified Crew: "Left do you reckon?"
Unidentified Crew: "Well I don't know... I think."
Unidentified Crew: "I've been looking for it."
First Officer Greg Cassin: "Yep, yep."
Brooks: "I'm just thinking about any high ground in the area that's all."
Mulgrew: "I think it'll be left."
Unidentified Crew: "Yes, I reckon about here."
Mulgrew: "Yes... no, no, I don't really know."
00:48:46
Captain Jim Collins: "Actually, these conditions don't look very good at all, do they?"
Mulgrew: "No they don't."
(The crew have trouble reaching McMurdo Station on the radio.)
00:49:08
Mulgrew: "That looks like the edge of Ross Island there."
Brooks: "I don't like this."
Collins: "Have you got anything from him?"
Cassin: "No"
Collins: "We're 26 miles north. We'll have to climb out of this."
Cassin: "It's clear on the right and (well) ahead."
Collins: "Is it?"
Cassin: "Yes."
Mulgrew: "You can see Ross Island? Fine."
Cassin: "Yes, you're clear to turn right...
Collins: "No... negative."
Cassin: "There's no high ground if you do a one eighty."
DC10 Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS): "Whoop, whoop. Pull up. Whoop whoop."
Brooks: "Five hundred feet."
GPWS: "Pull up."
Brooks: "Four hundred feet."
GPWS: "Whoop, whoop. Pull up. Whoop whoop. Pull up."
Collins: "Go-around power please."
GPWS: "Whoop, whoop. Pull -."
(End of recording)
NZPA
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