This is the second time them bastards got in...

* Is there any way to establish the authenticity of these recordings?

Are you suggesting this is a hoax or from a movie or something? The audio tapes were barely audible when I got them. I was only able to restore the 12 minutes you are hearing after an entire laborious week working on their restoration. It would be nice to have something to confirm their provenance to know where they came from, but their authenticity seems self evident.

* How are the speakers identified? For example, how does one distinguish the Captain from the First Officer?

Having written a book on this case, surely you know Rataczak and Scott's voices...no? There is plenty of audio out there of them both talking about the case. Those are clearly their voices. Both have very distinct and unique voices.

* How would the crew be able to talk to Soderlind in real time, when the crew were at Sea-Tac and Soderlind was in Minneapolis (far out of radio range), and there were no cell-phones?

It is also well documented that Paul Soderlind was in communication with 305 throughout the event.

This from Tosaw, who spent a significant amount of time with Rataczak and Soderlind.




This from NWA themselves:


As for how it worked, Northwest Airlines maintained a company VHF radio station at SEA-TAC. To communicate with the crew, Soderlind spoke into a telephone landline that was patched into this Seattle NWA company radio transmitter. The Seattle ground station then broadcast his voice over VHF to the aircraft.

This is the kind of evidence needed...arguing over who said what or how someone walks gets you nowhere...

Amen Shutt.

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Yes. I am the one that got the audio and there is more that I am working on recovering. It's probably the most important piece of outstanding evidence to date and I'm glad that I was able to bring it to the community. Ryan did an amazing job cleaning the audio up because what I got was rough.

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