S1E4 Air Crash Investigations - Cutting Corners- Alaska Airlnes 261 - English

[22ntzs22]

If you are American, do what you can to bypass a law for regular government inspection on aircraft mechanic safety.

[onecaptainal]

Wow the maintenance workers are such dicks.

[kimbercoulson]

of coarse there going to fight it all the way to the end, its called instinct, your body wants to survive, you want to survive! What do you think your just going throw up your arms and say "here comes the ground its time to vaporize!

[khalid969]

why do they always say that the pilots were trying to save the plane all the way to the end?! it seems to me from how often I hear that statement that some pilots do give up before it is really over, but I have yet to see an episode where that was the case!

[22ntzs22]

@khalid969 29:50 They do mention that the pilots shouldn't have tried the alternate and the primary trim motors... at the same time.

[atltom58]

hmmmmm the airlines claimed that they put no unsafe airplanes in the air! maybe they should watch this video!

[craigdragon17]

The managers at Alaska should be shot. I am this was not a pretty way to die and the airline still runs today? I understand from an economic standpoint why shutting down this airline would be bad, but this is inexcusable. I can understand pilot error, unknown design flaw, and other unforeseeable accidents but mechanical failure cause by improper maintenance??Even the "village idiot"can understand that something like this will fail.ITS LIKE FUCKING BONE ON BONE PEOPLE, METAL ON METAL WILL FAIL!!

[airplanegod]

@craigdragon17 Alaska Airlines is a good airline. It just had shitty people working for them at the time.

[AaronRashPTV]

F Alaska Airlines

[TheMrMarilyn]

I love the way they always say "there were no survivors"...if you're in a car and hit a wall at 50 miles an hour,it's odds on your number is up...in a jet,hitting the water (or ANYthing) at over 200 miles an hour,well,it would be nigh on miracle to survive it...don't understand why they always say that after a devastating plane crash!!But God help them...and all families and friends who've lost loved ones in plane crashes (and all other disasters and accidents too...incredibly moving)!!

[ChristopherSaindon]

Narrator -- once again -- talks like a little fairy bitch. Get the English guy from the rest of these PLEASE. These are GREAT, well-produced and written but you must have gone to "We Voice-Over..like little BITCHES"

[sardanaphalus]

Sounds like Alaska Airlines got away scot-free...

If so, great message to send to the industry.

[TheMrMarilyn]

@sardanaphalus The 'industry' don need no 'messages'...they already KNOW that they can,more often than not,get away with murder...it's absolutely disgusting!!

[simpsonfan13]

The episode entitled "Hidden Danger" (that's the UK name I think)  also an outrageous needles pair of crashes one was an AA flight the other was Turkish airlines flight. Both were DC-10's that suffered explosive decompression due to a bad cargo hatch design. They were 20 years apart and McDonnell-Douglas did NOTHING to fix the issue since the Feds never got official involved. Disconnected CEO's wanting to fatten the bottom line were fully responsible here. They should have done prison time imo.

[ChristopherSaindon]

Grease on a jackscrew. I agree with below. Also, Valujet 592 -- oxy cannisters "Open and Empty" watch that one It will REALLY piss you off..these poor people suffered with insane Gs before they hit, ValueJet passengers were all burned alive (despite how they clean it up on the 1-hour special)..

[TDEVOLI]

This is beyond outrageous! I am so angry!! I wonder if the Alaska Airlines executives and maintenance people involved in the incident could really sleep at night. May God bless the poor souls and help the grieved families to heal...

[kriemhild85]

this is brutal.

[bowmaaker]

yep i was a whistle blower for my own safety and was fired. Anybody responsible for such disregard and corner-cutting should be takin out and shot...period.