As Robert Dziekanski began throwing furniture at Vancouver International Airport in the minutes before his death, a flurry of telephone calls and radio transmissions erupted between airport officials, security guards, ambulance dispatch and a woman nervously watching the drama unfold.

Audio recordings of those communications - the first signs of trouble, the arrival of the RCMP officers who quickly stunned Dziekanski with a Taser, and eventually a message noting his death - will be heard next week by the public inquiry examining what happened.

The speakers haven't all been identified, but the recordings reveal the frantic moments as security, police, firefighters and ambulances were mobilized before and after Dziekanski's fatal confrontation with the RCMP.

"I received a report, there's a guy making trouble," a security guard says in the first radio broadcast, released publicly for the first time Thursday. "They said to me that he was throwing chairs."

"Alright, we'll inform police."

Dziekanski, who had been in the airport for nearly 10 hours and had been travelling for more than a day, had blocked a security door with chairs and started throwing furniture as witnesses looked on.

A woman waiting for her son to arrive on a flight from Mexico used a courtesy phone to call the airport's operations centre several times asking for someone to send the police.

"He's really drunk and he's throwing suitcases around ... you can't miss him," says the woman, worried about her son on the other side of the customs

"Oh, now this guy's going to start throwing furniture around, he's doing it now," she continues, the sounds of furniture crashing against a glass wall in the background. "They should hurry up."

What followed was a jumble of calls between security officials, airport-operations staff and an ambulance dispatcher.

"See anything yet?" says a voice, presumably to the security guards en route.

"No, we're just hitting the escalator now to head down."

"He is now breaking computers."

"RCMP are now on scene."

"You should call an ambulance, you might need that, this chum has been Tasered by the RCMP."

"He is conscious and breathing?"

"Affirmative."

"We've upgraded the call ... the police are on scene saying he's unconscious now. ... There's two units (ambulances) coming and the fire department also."

"Can you check with maintenance to see if we have anyone who speaks Polish?"

"Do we know the ETA for those units?"

"They'll be arriving shortly."

"Sorry, no one on maintenance speaks Polish."

"(Fire) engine No. 4 is curbside."

"Ambulance on scene."

"Canada customs is routing all passengers ... so they're bypassing the (international arrivals lounge)."

"Are you able to send a message to the ops managers, just a quick two-liner, just to say, 'Code 3 medical during course of RCMP arrest using Tasers resulted in deceased male."'

The audio broadcasts will be examined in detail when testimony resumes on Monday, as will new airport surveillance videos that show Dziekanski calmly wandering around the airport minutes before trouble began.

The inquiry is scheduled for four more weeks, after which retired judge Thomas Braidwood will write a report, which will include recommendations and could include findings of misconduct.