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Alaska Airlines Flight 261 was an Alaska Airlines flight of a McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series aircraft that crashed into the Pacific Ocean on January 31, 2000, roughly 2.7 miles (4.3 km; 2.3 nmi) north of Anacapa Island, California, following a catastrophic loss of pitch control, killing all 88 on board: 5 crew and 83 passengers.
The reconstruction of the accident sequence begins with the Alaska Airlines Flight 261 horizontal stabilizer takeoff setting of 7.0 degrees ANU in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Subsequent airplane nose down stabilizer trim motion from 7.0 degress ANU to 2.0 degrees ANU was due to the use of primary trim.
Author: NTSB: Short title: Loss of Control and Impact with Pacific Ocean Alaska Airlines Flight 261; Image title: Aircraft Accident Report; Date and time of digitizing
Alaska Airlines Flight 261, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80, on January 31, 2000. The acme nut/jack screw assembly, which adjusted the pitch of the horizontal stabilizer, failed. As a result, the pilots lost control of aircraft pitch, and the flight crashed into the Pacific Ocean killing all 5 crew and 83 passengers on board.
The National Transportation Safety Board, or NTSB, has ruled a December small plane crash in Alaska that claimed two lives “an act of suicide.”
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