the pilots fight desperately to regain control as the altitude chord sounded for one and a half seconds. ten seconds into the dive, one of them cried “"aye!,"” but the other urged him to stay calm. “"calma!"” he said, and seconds later he said it again. they extended the landing gear to slow the dive. 22 seconds into the plunge, the airplane’s over-speed clacker came on and continued to the end of the flight. forces inside the airplane rapidly grew, with loud winds sounding over the cockpit voice recorder until, 30 seconds into the dive, they exceeded four gs—the gravity-load threshold beyond which some passengers must have began to black out. the pilots kept trying to fly, struggling with the controls and exchanging a few words which are impossible to discern over the plethora of alarms. 45 seconds into the dive came another “"aye!"” seven seconds later, the boeing broke into three parts, which plummeted into the forest below.