This video features a rare collection of authentic Air Traffic Control recordings captured in September 1979 using a vintage dictaphone and an air band radio from the recorder's home in Southall, West London. The audio includes communications from West Drayton ATC, Heathrow Tower, and RAF Northolt, preserving the sounds of real aircraft operations more than four decades ago. Featured aircraft include German Air Force Transall C-160s, a French Air Force Falcon 20, a Tanzania Government Fokker F28-3000 (believed to be one of the aircraft visiting for Lord Mountbatten's funeral), a US Navy Convair VC-131F, Gulfstream II, Cessna 500, Royal Jordanian Caravelle, Beechcraft King Air 200, and a SATT Boeing 707, along with several commercial airliners.
Timeline
This video features a rare collection of authentic Air Traffic Control recordings captured in September 1979 using a vintage dictaphone and an air band radio from the recorder's home in Southall, West London.
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Development of the situation
The audio includes communications from West Drayton ATC, Heathrow Tower, and RAF Northolt, preserving the sounds of real aircraft operations more than four decades ago.
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Response or continuation
Featured aircraft include German Air Force Transall C-160s, a French Air Force Falcon 20, a Tanzania Government Fokker F28-3000 (believed to be one of the aircraft visiting for Lord Mountbatten's funeral), a US Navy Convair VC-131F, Gulfstream II, Cessna 500, Royal Jordanian Caravelle, Beechcraft King Air 200, and a SATT Boeing 707, along with several commercial airliners.
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Resolution or outcome described in the account
This recording offers aviation enthusiasts a unique opportunity to experience genuine ATC communications and historic aircraft movements from one of the busiest aviation hubs of the late 1970s
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Accident Facts
- Aircraft
- King Air, Beechcraft
- Airports
- LHR (London Heathrow)
- Category
- Military
- Reconstruction
- 23:36
This recording offers aviation enthusiasts a unique opportunity to experience genuine ATC communications and historic aircraft movements from one of the busiest aviation hubs of the late 1970s
Audio from the original air traffic control recording, sourced from public recordings and released investigation records. The reconstruction, animation and written account are our own.
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