The safety board will rule on a probable cause of the crash next year. The two pilots trade instructions for working the controls but the effort is in vain as the plane takes a final dive from 18,000 feet. Dec. 13, 2000. Cockpit Voice Recorder Transcript of Alaska Airlines 261 MD-83 that crashed into the sea after developing stabilizer problems. No sound recordings . JOHN HAMMERSCHMIDT, NTSB: Well, the next stage in terms of the U.S. Navy's work at the accident site is to begin the process of the detailed mapping of the wreckage area and that will begin at some point soon. Many relatives of crash victims attended the hearing yesterday. The airplane descended, but the crew was able to arrest the descent. The crew of that plane also reported problems with the stabilizer trim. Investigators later uncove. On August 16, 1987 a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, operating as Northwest Airlines Flight 255, crashed shortly after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, about 8:46 pm EDT (00:46 UTC August 17), resulting in the deaths of all six crew members and 148 of the 149 passengers, along with two people on the ground. The pilots make two attempts to extend the slats and flaps to slow the plane for landing but with under two minutes of the recording left, a faint thump is followed by a loud noise. Soon after the announcement, the pilot's comments to the controller hinted at the gravity of the problem, and at the crew's concern for people on the ground. -- 4:20:57 -- end of recording. EMILY FOWLER, FAMILY BABYSITTER: They bought me a ticket and then it turns out that I had a final, a Spanish final, so I wasn't able to go. 0:00. I believe he's talking about this---1550:25 CAM-2 oh.1550:25 CAM-1 ---switch that's on the * that's on the pedestal.1550:27 CAM-2 yea okay.1550:31 CAM-1 do you see anything back there?1550:32 CAM [Sound of click]1550:33 CAM-2 uh there's *.1550:40 SEA-MX and two sixty one, maintenance.1550:42.0 RDO-1 go ahead maintenance two six one.1550:44 SEA-MX understand you're requesting uh diversion to L A for this uh discrepancy is there a specific reason you prefer L A over San Francisco?1550:45 MZT Alaska two sixty one radar service terminated contact uh Los Angeles center frequency one one nine decimal ninety five good day.1550:54.4 RDO-1 well a lotta times its windy and rainy and wet in San Francisco and uh, it seemed to me that a dry runway where the wind is usually right down the runway seemed a littlemore reasonable.1550:55.0 RDO-2 one one nine ninety five Alaska two sixty one.1551:01.2 RDO-2 say again the frequency one one nine point eh ninety five?1551:05 MZT affirm one one nine decimal ninety five.1551:09.3 RDO-2 roger.1551:09.9 SEA-MX ok and uh is this added fuel that you're gonna have in LA gonna be a complication or an advantage?1551:18.1 RDO-1 well the way I'm reading it uh heavier airplanes land faster right now I got fifteen five on board, I'm thinking to land with about twelve which is still uh an hour and forty minutes uh and those are the numbers I'm running up here.1551:20.6 RDO-2 L A Alaska two sixty one three one zero.1551:36 SEA-MX ok uh two sixty one standby for dispatch.1551:38 RDO-2 Los Angeles Alaska two sixty one three one zero.1551:40 RDO-1 OK the other thing you gotta know is that they're talking about holding and delays in San Francisco um for your maintenance facil- eh you know planning uh it uh L Aseemed like a smarter move from airworthy move.1551:42 LAX-CTR1 Alaska two sixty one L A center roger.1551:50 RDO-2 * there's two people on the frequency I'm sorry Alaska two sixty one I didn't hear your response.1551:58 LAX-CTR1 Alaska two six one squawk two zero one zero.1552:01 RDO-2 two zero one zero Alaska two sixty one.1552:02 SEA-DIS two sixty one dispatch uh current San Francisco weather one eight zero at six, nine miles, few at fifteen hundred broken twenty eight hundred overcast thirty four hundred uh if uh you want to land at L A of course for safety reasons we will do that uh wu we'll uh tell you though that if we land in LA uh we'll be looking at probably an hour to an hour and a half we have a major flow program going right now. Realizing they cannot get the stabilizer out of a its full nose-down angle, Thompson tells Tansky, Were worse than we were., Thompson tries to calm passengers, saying I dontanticipate any big problems once we get a couple of sub-systemson the line.. Investigators say the grease Alaska Airlines used to lubricate a key stabilizing mechanism in the tail section of the plane may have broken down the metal of the part, causing the fatal plunge. "I just felt like all the technicians here needed to be reminded that there are human beings involved," said Earlene Shaw, 65, of Olympia, Wash., whose husband, Don Shaw, 63, died on Flight 261. I expect him to figure all that # ---1601:53 CAM-2 right.1601:53 CAM-1 ---he's got it on the screen---1601:54 CAM-2 that's why I was thinking that an instructor would really uh---1601:58 CAM-1 yea.1601:58 CAM-2 ---cut through the crap there.1601:59 CAM-2 they not available?1602:00 CAM-1 well they just don't talk to each other.1602:02 CAM-2 oh.1602:02 CAM-1 I mean I * ---1602:04 CAM-2 * they've always told us they were available you know---1602:06 CAM-1 yea yea.1602:07 CAM-2 ---anytime you have a problem.1602:09 CAM-2 if they get one down there.1602:12.6 RDO-1 Los Angeles one sixty one do you read me better now?1602:29 CAM-1 I got the track goin over there.1602:31 LAX-OPS go ahead two six one.1602:33.6 RDO-1 two sixty one, I I know you're busy on us uh, but we're discussing it up here could you give us the winds at San Francisco if you could just pull em up on your screen?1602:57 CAM-2 I thought they.1603:00 LAX-OPS ok ahhh San Francisco, ok we've got uh winds are one seventy at six knots.1603:15.6 RDO-1 ok thank you that's what I needed. 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Flight 261 recorder it seems to be helping.1610:51 CAM-1 # me.1610:53 CAWS [sound of chime] Altitude1610:55 CAM-1 ok it really wants to pitch down.1610:58 CAM-2 ok.1610:59 CAM-1 don't mess with that.1611:04 CAM-2 I agree with you.1611:04 LAX-CTR1 Alaska two sixty one say your condition.1611:06.6 RDO-1 two sixty one we are at twenty four thousand feet, kinda stabilized.1611:10 RDO-1 we're slowing here, and uh, we're gonna uh.1611:15 RDO-1 do a little troubleshooting, can you gimme a block between uh, twenty and twenty five?1611:21 LAX-CTR1 Alaska two sixty one maintain block altitude flight level two zero zero through flight level two five zero.1611:27 RDO-1 Alaska two sixty one we'll take that block we'll be monitor'n the freq.1611:31 CAM-2 you have the airplane let me just try it.1611:33 CAM-1 ok.1611:33 CAM-2 uh how hard is it?1611:33 CAM-1 I don't know my adrenaline's goin it was really tough there for a while.1611:38 CAM-2 yea it is.1611:39 CAM-1 ok.1611:43 CAM-2 whatever we did is no good, don't do that again.1611:44 CAM-1 yea, no it went down it went to full nose down.1611:48 CAM-2 uh it's a lot worse than it was?1611:50 CAM-1 yea yea we're in much worse shape now.1611:59 CAM-1 I think its at the stop, full stop and I'm thinking, we can- can it go any worse but it probably can but when we slowed down, lets slow it lets get down to two hundred knots and see what happens.1612:16 CAM-2 ok?1612:16 CAM [sound of click]1612:17 CAM-2 we have to put the slats out and everything flaps and slats.1612:20 CAM-1 yea well we'll wait ok you got it for a second?1612:23 CAM-2 yea.1612:25.3 RDO-1 maintenance two sixty one are you on?1612:30 LAX-MX-2 yea two sixty one this is maintenance.1612:32.0 RDO-1 ok we did---1612:33.2 RDO-1 ---we did both the pickle switch and the suitcase handles and it ran away full nose trim down.1612:39 LAX-MX-2 oh it ran away trim down.1612:42 RDO-1 and now we're in a * pinch so we're holding uh we're worse than we were.1612:50 LAX-MX-2 ok uh geez.1612:52 LAX-MX-1 you want me to talk to em? New Theory in Alaska Airlines Crash - ABC News JIM HALL, CHAIRMAN, NTSB: The crew had difficulty controlling the airplane's tendency to pitch nose down. ", Patty Sanchez, 59, of Seattle, whose daughter Colleen Whorley, 33, and Whorley's fiance, Monte Donaldson, 31, died in the crash, said, "We need to find the truth, so this doesn't happen again.". At Port Hueneme Naval Base in Ventura, Calif., the USNS Sioux, a fleet . They also discussed moving the horizontal tail into position by raising the nose, then letting it drop. Lil boy twerkin wtf is yo daddy. Terrifying 31 MinutesTodays hearing focused on the terrifying last minutes of Flight 261 and pilots efforts to save the lives of their passengers. Is the Stanley Quencher tumbler worth its TikTok hype? Mayday, says Tansky followed by Thompson saying the planeis upside down, we are inverted.. JIM MORET, CNN ANCHOR: Wolf, investigators say an initial check of the plane's cockpit voice recorder reveals the crew struggling to keep the MD-83 flying. FOWLER: They will be greatly missed and never forgotten. temperature one six dewpoint one one. WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: The painstaking probe into what went wrong with Alaska Airlines Flight 261 tops our look at "THE WORLD TODAY." All rights reserved. Whatever we did is no good. -- 4:11:48 -- Tansky: It's a lot worse than it was. 31 January 2000 - Alaska Airlines 261. DAVIS: Emily and her mom are glad to have one another as they grieve for the lives lost on Flight 261. I don't anticipate any big problems once we get a couple of subsystems on the line.''. Transcripts of Doomed Alaska Flight / Voices of Doom on Alaska Air / Transcripts depict pilots' frantic struggle in final minutes of Flight 261, Search team member Eric Hermann pulled in a piece of Flight 261's fuselage after the Alaska Airlines plane crashed on Jan. 31. The Last Day of Their Lives-- A Trip Home, a Flight into Terror - SFGATE -- 4:19:36 -- Sound of extremely loud noise in cockpit, increase in background noise, sound of loose articles moving around in cockpit. Alaska Airlines 261 CVR Transcript But so far, the controls in the MD-80s tail have become suspect in the accident. 31 January 2000 - Alaska Airlines 261. and parallel localizerapproaches are in progress between Los Angeles international and Hawthorne airports. It didn't take long before the tale of on-board pastors offering a final prayer over the plane's intercom system during those final minutes began to circulate on the Internet. Cockpit Voice Recorder Database. Alaska Airlines Flight 261 - Wikipedia Origins: The crew of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 wrestled with a jammed stabilizer for 11 or 12 minutes, trying to maintain altitude and guide their plane to an emergency landing, before the airliner finally plunged into the Pacific Ocean near Port Hueneme on 31 January 2000. Transcript Tells of Alaska Airlines Pilots' Efforts Before Crash I don't think we should if it can fly, its like---1619:01 CAM-1 it's on the stop now, its on the stop.1619:04 CAM-2 well not according to that its not.1619:07 CAM-2 the trim might be, and then it might be uh, if something's popped back there---1619:11 CAM-1 yea.1619:11 CAM-2 ---it might be * mechanical damage too.1619:14 CAM-2 I think if it's controllable, we oughta just try to land it---1619:16 CAM-1 you think so? We're flyin', were flyin'. simultaneous instrument departure in progress runway two four and two five. At 4:21 p.m. on January 31, 2000, Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashed into the Pacific Ocean, approximately 10 miles off the coast, near Port Hueneme, California. More information about the crash:https://bit.ly/3aENWyx (final report)https://bit.ly/3ruWZZO (wiki) Instagram/Business enquiries:mailtecnat@gmail.comhttp. "Tragically, they were dealing with something no MD-80 pilot had ever experienced: a catastrophic failure of the stabilizer jackscrew," said Kevin Finan, Alaska's vice president of flight operations. Suit filed in fallout from Alaska Airlines crash March 11, 2000 More damage discovered on part from Alaska Airlines Flight 261 February 18, 2000 Alaska Airlines maintenance records raise new questions (in the background during previous transmission)1612:55 LAX-MX-1 yea two sixty one maintenance uh uh you getting full nose trim down but are you getting any you don't get no nose trim up is that correct?1613:04 RDO-1 that's affirm we went to full nose down and I'm afraid to try it again to see if we can get it to go in the other direction.1613:10 LAX-MX-1 ok well your discretion uh if you want to try it, that's ok with me if not that's fine. actually.1617:46 CAM-2 he wants us to maintain seventeen.1617:51 CAM-1 ok I need help with this here.1617:52 CAM-1 slats ext lets---1617:54 CAM-2 ok slats---1617:54 CAM-1 gimme slats extend.1617:55 CAM-2 got it.1617:56.6 CAM [sound similar to slat/flap handle movement]1617:58 CAM-1 I'm test flyin now---1617:59 CAM-2 how does it feel?1618:00 CAM-1 it's wantin to pitch over more on you.1618:02 CAM-2 really?1618:03 CAM-1 yea.1618:04 CAM-2 try flaps? fifteen, eleven?1618:05 CAM-1 ahh lets go to eleven.1618:07.3 CAM [sound similar to slat/flap handle movement]1618:09 CAM-2 ok get some power on.1618:10 CAM-1 I'm at two hundred and fifty knots, so I'm lookin.1618:17 CAM-2 real hard?1618:17 CAM-1 no actually its pretty stable right here see but we got to get down to a hundred an eighty.1618:26 CAM-1 OK bring bring the flaps and slats back up for me.1618:32 CAM-2 slats too?1618:33 CAM-1 yea.1618:36.8 CAM [sound similar to slat/flap handle movement]1618:37 CAM-2 that gives us twelve thousand pounds of fuel, don't over boost them.1618:47 CAM-1 what I'm what I wanna do1618:48 CAM [sound similar to slat/flap handle movement]1618:49 CAM-1 is get the nose up and then let the nose fall through andsee if we can stab it when it's unloaded.1618:54 CAWS [sound of chime] Altitude (repeats for approximately 34 seconds)1618:56 CAM-2 you mean use this again? . but we will be going into L A X and I'd anticipate us parking there in about twenty to thirty minutes.1614:39 CAM-1 ok did the, first of all, speedbrakes. ROCHELLE: Stabilizer trim literally stabilizes the aircraft in a particularly flight mode. "My daughter's an activist, and she would have been here for me," Sanchez said. From C-Check to Tragedy: Lessons Learned from Alaska flight 261 -- 4:20:04 -- Thompson (probably referring to the control stick): Push, push, push, push. Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash [Full CVR] - YouTube The mission of the Department of Defense is to provide a lethal Joint Force to defend the security of our country and sustain American influence abroad. Snapshots of whats happening in the Defense Department. Ah here we go, Thompson says just before the plane hit the water. we are comin in to see you and I've misplaced the paperwork here.1603:23 CAM-2 there it is.1603:35 CAM-1 I can't read your writing can you read her the uh zero fuel weight---1603:40 CAM-2 yea.1603:41 CAM-1 ---and all those numbers and CG.1603:43 LAX-OPS L A operations from two six to two six one.1603:48 CAM-2 I got it.1603:48.5 RDO-2 uhhh two sixty one do you need our uh, our numbers?1603:52 LAX-OPS yea we just wanna advise that we do not have landing rights as yet.1603:56 RDO-2 here's our numbers we had uh ten in first class, seventy in coach, zero fuel weight one zero two one one zero point one fuel on board thirty four point niner take off weight onethirty six five one one point eight, CG eleven point eight.1604:19 LAX-OPS OK I got ten and seventy Z fuel weight one zero two one one zero point one, fuel on board thirty four decimal nine take off weight five one one decimal eight and a CG ofeleven decimal eight.1604:32 RDO-2 yea uh take off one three six five one one point eight and uh CG one one point eight.
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