United 1545 Fly's great, doesn't drive so well once on the ground in Houston

[semperflyer797]

United flight 1545 from Las Vegas into Bush Intercontinental in Houston had trouble while taxing to the gate and got stuck in the mud.  no injuries reported, clip just misses their landing clearance and starts at about 1:45 into the clip with United 1545's taxi clearance to the ramp with the events transpiring shortly thereafter.  Around the 19:45 minute mark they do call it a braking action issue and say the braking authority was poor at best.  Last transmission in this clip is around 25:38 from ARF1 telling the crew the plane appears secure and stairs are on the way.  Storms had been in the area during the time of their arrival.  Sorry I couldn't edit it down as I couldn't get the program from liveatc to work for me.
http://archive-server.liveatc.net/kiah/KIAH-Twr-Apr-13-2015-1030Z.mp3

news story on the event http://mashable.com/2015/04/13/united-airlines-plane-skids-off-runway-houston/

[RonR]

If you're referring to the program Audacity, if I remember right you need an mp3 add on so that you can work with mp3 files

[VASAviation]

Hey guys!! Thanks so much for sharing the audio!

I'm working on a video about this. Could anyone help me with the transcriptions?

[svoynick]

If you're referring to the program Audacity, if I remember right you need an mp3 add on so that you can work with mp3 files

As a follow on to this - Audacity is a great audio editor (I use it extensively), but to save MP3 files, you do need an MP3 add-on.  The way to do that is to get the "Lame" plug-in (that's it's name, not an adjective...), and it's free.  Check this page for all the info you need to know:

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Lame_Installation

Once the Lame add-on is installed, MP3 saving can be done right from within Audacity from the "File | Export" menu item - no separate steps needed.