Voice in tower: 'I messed up'
Minutes after the crash, an air traffic controller is heard saying he "messed up" in a longer recording of the radio after the crash, obtained by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
"Frontier, 4195, I got the word that we're gonna be closed for a little while. If you want to prepare to return to the ramp, let me know," the tower says.
"Yeah, we got stuff in progress after that, man. That was… wasn't good to watch," another voice says.
"Yeah, I know I was here. I tried to reach out to my stuff, and we were dealing with an emergency earlier. I messed up," the tower says.
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