TRANSCRIPT, AUDIO: Radio communications from Sunday night's plane crash

The following is a transcript of air traffic involving Doug Tindal, the attorney from Washington, Iowa, whose single-engine airplane crashed near The Eastern Iowa Airport Sunday night.

Much of the traffic is the pilot talking, but there are points where you can hear controllers talking back.

The files come from a Web site called LiveATC.net, which archives air traffic control radio traffic.

The plain text is the pilot; the bold text sounds like the Cedar Rapids control tower.

Time into 7:30-8 segment (listen to the segment HERE):

14:46 Cessna…is declaring an emergency. I want to land at your airport. I'm flying 20 miles north of Washington. … Negative…

15:34 Uh, my destination is Alpha-Whiskey-Golf [Washingon municipal airport letters = AWG]. The ceiling is too low for me. I can't get in there.

16:04 approach… only 30 minutes of gas…

17:12 …say again…[phonetic, sounded kind of like “Homer”-]Uniform-Tango-Lima… attempted to refuel a couple hundred of miles back and wasn't able to do that. So yeah I just had hoped to … run out of that. Over.

18:12 Pilot only, one person… [?six] hundred hours. … that about 3 years ago

22:00 I think Ottumwa's too far back, too small an airport for me. I would like to attempt Cedar Rapids…

22:42 I would prefer the 2-7. The one practice I did was on that…Yes, Roger

23:22 One-seventy-two… Chicago…Uh, it's a negative and I wouldn't know really how to read ‘em while I'm busy up here anyway. …no time

25:02 Cedar Rapids airport… -ation…

25:27 [sounded like different voice] Cedar Rapids …-one

26:12 zero-three-five but I'm moving it over…[?]…[?]…

27:03 …is static…Should I zero the needle?...111.3 no indicator on the needle

28:06 …three..what was that?

28:18 Cedar Rapids Tower go ahead ..

28:37 Cedar Rapids…do you copy?... you guys probably do have an emergency going on. There's a Cessna… 7 miles… emergency landing…next 10 to 15 minutes…

29:03 pretty low on fuel and he's not IFR qualified…approach…Roger

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30:02 two-niner-niner-one… go to the approach on the runway 2-7…we've got…hold short…we need as many lights as we can..Tindal, T-I-N-D-A-L. T as in Tango, India, November, Delta, Alpha, Lima. Delta Oscar Uniform Golf...

31:13 …minimum…Roger, repeat, turn to […?]

[31:35 – END OF CLIP]

[2nd clip starts at 30:00 in above – not sure who is saying which]

1:52 …it really is…

2:17 …concentrate on controlling…

2:47 OK, I'm in the cloud, should I go up?

3:48 …Now about 8 miles out

5:14 …alpha 5 …hold short… about 5 miles out and if you have any type of fog lights go ahead and turn them on.

5:52 …pullin'…

6:40 …short on runway 2-7…

6:52 …about 13….

7:05 …about a mile and a half out

7:41 Tower…on the ground somewhere about a mile, mile-and-a-half east of the airport…

8:16 ...?...