Air Crash Investigations: The Crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261

Air Crash Investigations: The Crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261
ISBN-10
0557139112
ISBN-13
9780557139118
Series
Air Crash Investigations
Category
History
Pages
329
Language
English
Published
2009-11
Publisher
Lulu.com
Author
Allistair Fitzgerald

Description

On January 31, 2000, Alaska Airlines, Flight 261, a McDonnell Douglas MD-83, was on its way from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to Seattle, Washington, when suddenly the horizontal stabilizer of the plane jammed. While passengers were praying for their life, Captain Thompson and First officer Tansky tried to make an emergency landing in Los Angeles. They did not make it, the plane suddenly crashed into the Pacific Ocean, killing all 93 people aboard. The NTSB concluded that the failure of the horizontal stabilizer was caused by insufficient maintenance. In other words the crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 could have been avoided.

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