Pilot’s Panicked Last Words Captured on Audio Before Plane Crash

Chilling audio captured the moment a control tower lost contact with a stricken private jet on Thursday night… seconds before the plane crashed in Michigan, killing all three people on board.

In the audio, you can hear the jet begin to malfunction after a back-and-forth conversation between the pilot and the tower… the panicked pilot shouting to the air traffic controller, “Stop, recover! Stop, recover!” he shouts. as he fights to maintain control.

Air traffic control can be heard desperately asking: “What is your altitude?… Are you reading?” — and when he realized the pilot was gone, he radioed other planes in the sky to watch for black smoke rising from the ground.

One of the pilots confirmed they saw thick, burning smoke pouring from a wooded area alongside a road in Bath Township, just outside Lansing, about 90 miles northwest of Detroit. The plane was a Hawker 800. According to FOX 17.

Flight data showed the jet plunged into more than 12,000 feet of water in less than a minute.

The identities of the three people killed were not publicly disclosed. The official cause of the crash is unclear, but the FAA has already launched an investigation.