Capt. William Allan (Capt): "OK, you have control."
First Officer Kent Davidge (FO): "I have control." (Sound of engines whistling higher)
Capt: "Stable."
FO: "Brakes released." (Sound of increased engine power)
FO: "Set max thrust."
Capt: "Max thrust." (The transcript says that "an oscillating sound" is heard and describes it as "something flapping for several seconds.")
Unidentified crew member: "What's that?"
FO: "We got a flat tire, you figure?"
Capt: "You're not leaning on the brakes, eh?"
FO: "No, I'm not. I got my feet on the bottom of the rudder."
Capt: " Eighty knots. Ninety knots now."
FO: "Ninety know, check." (An intermittent oscillating sound is now heard. The transcript says this sound is different from the first flapping sound heard above.)
Flight Engineer Victor Fehr (FE): (commenting on the sound), "Sort of a shimmy, like if you're riding on one of those, ah, thingamajigs."
Capt: "Rotate"
Capt: "Positive rate."
FO: "(Landing) gear up."
Jedda control tower: "Two-one-two-zero, one-two-nine-two, Jedda radar, good day!"

One minute and fifteen seconds later:

FE: "You've got four low-pressure lights."
Capt: "What have we got?"
FE: "You've got four low-pressure lights."
Capt: "Yeah."
Capt: "Flaps up."
FE: "We might be losing pressurization."
Unidentified crew member: "OK, it's not press..."
FE: "Uncontrolled. Pressurization is uncontrolled."
Capt: "Level off."
FO: "OK."
Capt to control tower: "Ah... Nationair two-one-two-zero, we'd like to just level off at two thousand feet, ah...if that's OK, we're having a slight pressurization problem. I'd just like to level off at, ah...two thousand, ah...feet."
FO: "I've got a spoiler light.l"
Control tower: "Descend three thousand feet, three thousand feet, fly heading one-three-zero."
FE: "Gear unsafe light."
Capt: "OK."
Capt to control tower: "OK. Heading one-three-zero and ah...understand you want us up to three thousand feet."
FE: "OK, I thought I blew a tire."
Capt: "Flaps up."
Control tower: "Heading one-two-zero, heading one-two-zero."
Capt to tower: "OK. One-six (sic) zero, and we're losing our hydraulics, sir. We're going to , ah...need to come back to Jedda to land."
Control tower: "Confirm Nigerian two-one-two-zero...descend in this area...
Unidentified crew member: "The airbrake thing just broke!"
FE: "We got a flaps-slot light."
Capt to tower: "OK, sir, ah... we have, ah.. a problem, we're levelling at three thousand feet here right at the moment"
Capt to cockpit crew: "Level off right now, right now level off!"
FO: "We're at level three."
FO: "Climb thrust."
Capt to tower: "OK, Levelling at three thousand feet and if you could give us a heading back toward the, ah...runway."
FO: "OK. Your pump pressure's, ah, OK, Vic."
FE: "All the pumps are going." (From this point, a new buzzing noise that increases in intensity and/or frequency is heard through to the end of the recording.)
Unidentified crew member: "OK, folks. We got an unlock light... we're going re..."
Capt: "Yeah, we're going back, we've got blown tires...and we got a hydraulic problem, OK."
(Flight attendant says something unintelligible to Capt.)
Capt: "Yeah, just tell them we'll be returning to, ah, Jedda."

(Pronounced buzzing noise.)

Capt: "OK. Let's, ah, get squared away (loud crackle noise) and see what we've got here."

(Unidentified flight attendant enters and says something to pilot. It is unintelligible on the tape.)

Capt to FA: "Just tell them we have a problem and we're gonna be returning, OK?"
Unidentified crew member: "OK, what I've got is a slot-flap light...lost all hydraulics..."
Unidentified crew member: "I've got no ailerons!"
Capt: "OK, hang on, I've got it."

(End of recording. The recording appears to end in flight)