Chilling resurfaced video shows inside of cockpit moments before Boeing 737 crashes into the pacific

Footage from a plane crash shows the terrifying final moments in the cockpit before the aircraft hit the water.

The video from inside the cockpit was crucial in an investigation into the crash, in which one person lost their life and nine others were injured.

In 2019, an investigation into the Air Niugini flight revealed the terrifying footage.

The plane had been making a landing approach at Chuuk International Airport in Micronesia, Papua New Guinea in September 2018.

A storm had obscured the runway, meaning that the pilots had to rely on their instruments to land the plane.

But an investigation found that the pilots, while focussed on their landing approach, had failed to take note of a warning on the plane's console.

This had been triggered by the plane's proximity warning systems.

As a result, the plane had been flashing a warning to 'PULL UP'.

Inside the cockpit just moments before the crash. (PNG Accident Investigation Commission)

In the footage, the co-pilot can be heard to be saying: "Too low! We're too low! We're too low!" moments before the plane ditched in the Chuuk Lagoon.

This was around 1,500ft short of the runway.

The video was shot by the flight's engineer who recorded the plane's approach from around 3000ft for his own recreation.

A subsequent investigation reported: "The crew were fixated on the task of landing the aircraft and did not notice the visual PULL UP caution alert at the bottom of their PFD.

"Therefore, they (the crew) did not take any positive action to arrest the high rate of descent and avoid landing in the lagoon.

"In fact, neither of the pilots were aware of the rapidly unfolding unsafe situation."

One person was killed in the crash and nine others were injured.

Rescuers approached the crashed plane and were able to evacuate passengers and crew, though one person sadly died. (Lt. Zach Niezgodski/U.S. Navy via Getty Images)

A flotilla of small boats operated by locals, as well as US navy divers, swarmed the crashed plane to rescue passengers and crew from the water.

Some 12 crew members and 34 passengers evacuated the semi-submerged plane after it ditched in the sea.

Following the plane crash, Chief Commissioner Hubert Namani said: "Both pilots were fixated on cues associated with control inputs for the landing approach, and subsequently, were not situationally aware and did not recognise the developing significant unsafe condition of an increasingly unstable final approach."

He added: “The importance of the imagery obtained from the video taken by the engineer in the cockpit jump seat cannot be understated.

"It provided clear pictures in real time of the cockpit environment and instruments."

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