[HD] Alaska 261 -Air Crash Investigation- (Cutting Corners)

Alaska Airlines Flight 261, a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 aircraft, experienced a fatal accident on January 31, 2000 in the Pacific Ocean about 2.7 miles (4.3 km) north of Anacapa Island, California. The two pilots, three cabin crewmembers, and 83 passengers on board were killed—the highest death toll of any aviation accident involving a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 ever, and the aircraft was destroyed. Alaska 261 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Lic. Gustavo Díaz Ordaz International Airport in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle, Washington, with an intermediate stop planned at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, California.

The subsequent investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board determined that inadequate maintenance led to excessive wear and catastrophic failure of a critical flight control system during flight. The probable cause was stated to be "a loss of airplane pitch control resulting from the in-flight failure of the horizontal stabilizer trim system jackscrew assembly's acme nut threads. The thread failure was caused by excessive wear resulting from Alaska Airlines's insufficient lubrication of the jackscrew assembly."


FS2004
Water, clouds, etc. are REX FS2004
SGA MD-83
Virtual Cockpit is from Leonardo Maddog 2008

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[FLT111]

Very good video their Minnesotaman13, I would like to know where you found the panel for the MD-80 and if so, could you pass me the lnk for download, thanks

[MinnesotaMan13]

@FLT111 Actually it's from the payware Leonardo Fly the Maddog, but Lonny Payne released a nice on on flightsim(dot)com. Just type in his name and look for flightdeckmd-80sga(dot)zip

[liam13coins]

Seattle Times ran a detailed story on this crash showing gross neglegence by AA managment, including the Airline having an FAA investigator transfered from Seattle to Alaska who documented AA's poor maintence practices, and complaints by mechanics to managment that fell on deaf ears.

And no one went to jail.

[sotel1]

Please something: it's ok to upload animations - maybe no one will ever watch it, but it is OK.

BUT: what is NOT OK, if you name this upload in a misleading way! So this upload is only one: crap!

[SunriseHealthFoods]

this is why people distrust the md 80.... it can happen again.

[MrMariotime123]

ANIMATION!

[aidanbard]

The baggage truck at the beginning needs a shadow.

[NorthForkFisherman]

@phanthom091 So did I. AJ used to talk about how he always wanted to work on the 777. He never got that chance. Horizon ramp SEATAC lost a lot of good folks that day.

[Chamath5]

fake

[261mylove]

Thanks for uploading this. It never, never, never should have happened. Everything changed that day for me. Everything. And this was preventable. PREVENTABLE! Good people died that day; may the world never forget. Thanks.

[MrGotenks107]

sad song like bioshock 2 good ending song