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Alaska Airlines Flight 261 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz International Airport in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, to Seattle–Tacoma International Airport in Seattle, Washington, United States, with an intermediate stop at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, California.
The aircraft experienced a controlled flight into terrain due to pilot error, air traffic control error, and inclement weather. The ATC Minimum Safe Altitude Warning (MSAW) system was deliberately modified so as to limit spurious alarms and could not detect an approaching aircraft that was below minimum safe altitude.
The jackscrew from Alaska Airlines Flight 261 recovered after the collision. Alaska Airlines Flight 261 took off from Mexico en route to California. The MD-83 had been in maintenance, and the T-tail's jackscrew had not been checked as called for in the maintenance schedule. After several tries, the crew was able to unfreeze the stabilizer, and ...
An Alaska Airlines-operated Boeing 737 was forced to turn around after one of its engines failed midair.
Two US airlines are scrambling to deal with cancellations and newly mandated inspections in the wake of the mid-flight blowout aboard an Alaska Airlines flight.
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Maintenance error, struck walkway Flight 75: Juneau International Airport: 14 August 1998: Boeing 737-490: Seattle–Juneau: Hard landing Flight 261: off Anacapa Island: 31 January 2000: McDonnell Douglas MD-83: Puerto Vallarta–San Francisco–Seattle: Fatigue, horizontal stabilizer failure, loss of control N764AS: Vancouver International ...
Alaska Airlines Flight 261: Pacific Ocean near Anacapa Island: McDonnell Douglas MD-83: Maintenance intervals extended beyond safe limit 88 Lack of lubrication causing structural failure of the jackscrew on the horizontal stabiliser resulting in aircraft descending inverted into sea 2001-11-12 American Airlines Flight 587