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	The Alaska 261 NTSB Findings and FAA Denial
		Alaska Airlines' use of Aeroshell 33 for lubrication of the jackscrew assembly, acme screw thread surface finish, foreign debris, and abnormal loading of the acme nut threads were not factors in the excessive wear of the accident acme nut threads.
		Alaska Airlines' extension of the end play check interval, and FAA's approval of the extension, allowed the accident acme nut threads to wear to failure without the opportunity for detection and, therefore, was a direct cause of the excessive wear and contributed to the Alaska Airlines flight 261 accident.
		Alaska Airlines' end play check interval extension should have been, but was not, supported by adequate technical data to demonstrate that the extension would not present a potential hazard.
	www.iasa.com.au /folders/Breaking_News/hotoffthepress/ntsbfindings.html (2765 words)

	Alaska Airlines Flight 261
		While it is important and even prudent not to jump to conclusions as to the persons or entities that may ultimately prove to be responsible for this unnecessary loss of life, it is equally important and judicious to keep asking the questions necessary to bring the ultimate cause and responsibility for this accident into focus.
		Flight 261 was a flight engaged in international transportation.
		The airline may, however, be able to "lay off" or spread around any responsibility that it may have to others deemed responsible in whole or part for the aircrash.
	www.mcmc-law.com /alaskaairlinesfl.html (645 words)

	Alaska Air Flight 261 crash: What is a horizontal stabilizer? Are there previous crashes caused by stabilizer ...
		The flight was being vectored around extensive thunderstorm activity as it departed and was subjected to moderate to severe turbulence.
		At Chicago, the flight recorder was pulled to examine the actual stresses on the plane.
		The plane had no flight data recorder, so they could never be certain if the PTC had malfunctioned, setting up the pilot for the fatal over-control situation.
	www.airlinesafety.com /faq/faq10.htm (3538 words)

	John Nance Productions - Aviation Resources
		Subsequent search and rescue efforts have proven fruitless, leaving the airline and the NTSB to accept the terrible reality that the 83 passengers (which included over thirty members of the Alaska Airlines 'family' riding on passes) and five crew members are dead.
		In that case, the flight crew is stuck with whatever setting they've got, and may have to land the aircraft in a backbreaking effort to maintain opposite forces on the control yoke.
		It was during this phase of flight that the pilots of Alaska 261 apparently lost the ability to maintain controlled flight.
	www.johnjnance.com /aviation/updtes_aa_flt261.htm (1886 words)

	Boston.com / Latest News / Nation
		The flight data recorder from Alaska Airlines Flight 261 sits on a table in front of NTSB Chairman Jim Hall during a press conference Tuesday.
		Flight 261 advises it is having control difficulties and descends to 26,000 feet.
		Flight 261 advises it is "kind of stabilized," in Hammerschmidt's words, and is going to do some troubleshooting.
	www.boston.com /news/daily/06/alaska_crash.htm (1066 words)

	- Alaska Airline Flight Goes Down Near L.A.
		The Alaska Airlines flight 261 was flying from Puerto Vallarta and headed to San Francisco.
		An airline official at the San Francisco Airport told news stations that the plane's flight crew did report mechanical difficulties and had requested to land at Los Angeles International Airport.
		Alaska Airlines spokesman Len Sloper told CBS 2 that the pilot had reported he was experiencing horizontal stabilizer trim problems.
	html.ibsys.com /sh/news/stories/nat-news-20000201-010631.html (529 words)

	CNN - Hope lessens for Alaska Airlines crash survivors - February 1, 2000
		Alaska Airlines said it was flying the families of crash victims to Los Angeles to meet with National Transportation Safety Board officials.
		The plane was purchased by Alaska Airlines in 1992.
		Evans said at the time that the airline was consistently told by federal investigators that airplane safety was not in question and that the inquiries were limited to record keeping.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.06 (1566 words)

	Alaska Airlines Flight 261 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alaska Airlines Flight 261 was a flight route operated by Alaska Airlines that provided service between Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, San Francisco International Airport, and Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
		After discussions with airline mechanics and dispatchers on the ground, the crew decided to divert the flight to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
		A possible contributing factor in the crash was the method that Alaska Airlines used to check for wear of the jackscrew assembly.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alaska_Airlines_Flight_261 (716 words)

	Online NewsHour: Alaska Air Flight 261 Crash -- February 1, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The flight responded that they needed to get down to 10,000 feet to change-- also to change their configuration, that is, the plane's flight configuration, and they wanted to do this over the bay, over the water.
		The flight crew acknowledged the clearance to 17,000 and advised they needed a block altitude, and this is the last known transmission from Flight 261.
		What we know about Alaska Airlines is that this is really the third major fatal accident they've had, but the one that I'm thinking of early on was I believe in 1971 where 104 passengers were killed and five crew members.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/transportation/jan-june00/alaskaair_2-1.html (1846 words)

	Alaska Air crash report rips FAA / U.S. oversight blamed, along with carrier's maintenance practices
		Lax federal oversight of Alaska Airlines' maintenance practices and the carrier's failure to check its planes often enough for wear and tear led to the fatal crash of an MD-80 jet off the Southern California coast in 2000, investigators concluded Tuesday.
		The immediate reason for the crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 was lack of grease on a major tail component, which caused the plane to spiral out of control when the part failed, the National Transportation Safety Board said.
		The airline said it had taken steps to improve maintenance and expressed its "profound sorrow" for the families and friends of the Flight 261 victims.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/12/11/MN34656.DTL (1025 words)

	KOMO-TV - Seattle, Washington - News Archive - Flight 261 Crash Blamed On Alaska Airlines
		While the board said Alaska Airlines was primarily to blame for the Jan. 31, 2000, crash, it also said the Federal Aviation Administration bore some responsibility.
		Alaska Airlines issued a statement saying it agrees with many of the NTSB findings and "respectfully questions others," though it did not specify them.
		Alaska Airlines has said the jackscrew failed because of extreme wear caused by a kind of grease recommended by Boeing.
	www.komotv.com /stories/21855.htm (763 words)

	USATODAY.com - Travel - News - NTSB issues scathing final report on Flight 261 crash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		At the December hearings in Washington, D.C., the NTSB announced its finding that shoddy maintenance by the Seattle-based airline was the reason for a lack of grease, excessive wear and eventual failure of the jet's jackscrew —; a tail component that helps move the plane's stabilizer and sets the angle of flight.
		On Saturday, airline spokesman Jack Evans told The Associated Press the company stands by earlier statements that it has overhauled its maintenance operations since the crash, and they are now among the best in the industry.
		During that check, a senior Alaska mechanic determined the jackscrew should be replaced because it had reached the highest limit of allowable wear, though automatic replacement was not required.
	www.usatoday.com /travel/news/2003/2003-01-12-ntsb-alaska.htm (661 words)

	Alaska 261: 'A Maintenance Accident'
		And although the airline submitted some data to FAA to justify the C check extension, it did not -- nor was it required to -- provide data for each of the hundreds of items included in the C check.
		Goglia, a former airline mechanic, agreed that a better design wouldn't hurt, but insisted that the human element of accidents like Flight 261 must be stressed to prevent similar events from happening.
		Probes into two of them -- Alaska 261 and the February 2000 crash of an Emery DC-8 near Sacramento -- turned up problematic maintenance, while the probe of the Jan. 8 crash of the US Airways Express (Air Midwest) Flight 5481, a Beech 1900, at Charlotte was looking closely at that plane's maintenance history.
	home.att.net /~emery17now/Alaska_261.htm (789 words)

	IRAAP: Part 1 - Alaska #261 Reports
		Alaska Flight 261 plunged into the Pacific on Monday as the pilots struggled with a jammed horizontal stabilizer on the tail of the plane, according to radio conversations between the pilots and air traffic controllers.
		Alaska Airlines announced today that it has officially retired flight number 261 in honor of the 88 passengers and crew members who were lost in Monday's accident off the California coast.
		Alaska Airlines extends its deepest sympathy to the families of the passengers and crew.
	iraap.org /reports/alaska1.htm (17335 words)

	The Alaska Airlines crash: signs point to a wider crisis in air safety
		Yet the criminal probe of Alaska Airlines is a highly unusual development, eminently newsworthy in and of itself, and all the more so in the wake of the January 31 crash.
		One fact that has emerged: the NTSB has revealed that in September 1997, more than two years before the Alaska Airlines MD-83 crashed into the Pacific, mechanics at the Oakland facility discovered that the gimbal nut on the ill-fated plane was badly worn and in need of replacement.
		The Flight 261 disaster was not an isolated incident.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/feb2000/alas-f19.shtml (2147 words)

	CNN - Cockpit voice recorder from Alaska Airlines Flight 261 recovered - February 2, 2000
		Investigators said Wednesday afternoon that both "pingers" from Flight 261 had been located, but added that it was unknown whether those signaling devices were still attached to the cockpit voice recorder or the flight data recorder.
		Alaska Airlines has handed over to NTSB investigators a 16-channel audio tape of those conversations.
		NTSB operation group investigators are interviewing pilots of four planes that were flying in the area and may have witnessed the Alaska Airlines crash.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/US/02/02/alaska.airlines.04 (1425 words)

	Alaska Airlines Flight 261 - Oddly Haunting Questions
		If, in fact, there was total silence on the part of the flight crew, that raises the additional suspicion that perhaps they were incapacitated, given the further report by the media that the aircraft was spinning and tumbling.
		NewsHawk has already raised the issue of Flight 261 being cleared for an emergency landing at LAX, located 40 miles away, when Naval Air Station Point Mugu with its 12,000 foot runway was immediately adjacent to the crippled flight's location, a mere five or ten miles away.
		An airplane striking the water at the speed and angle exhibited by Alaska Flight 261 would result in the utter explosion and disintegration of the airplane and its contents; it would be like slamming the airplane into a concrete wall.
	www.rense.com /ufo6/questions.htm (1234 words)

	USATODAY.com - Lack of grease caused jet crash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday is expected to conclude that a lack of grease on a mechanism aboard Alaska Airlines Flight 261 caused the jet to roll onto its back and dive into the Pacific Ocean on Jan. 31, 2000.
		Alaska Airlines says that its maintenance difficulties were largely paperwork problems and that it properly maintained the jet.
		Alaska Flight 261, headed to San Francisco from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, plunged into the Pacific Ocean off California.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2002-12-08-alaska-plane-usat_x.htm (484 words)

	Diary of a Disaster - Alaska Airlines Inc. Flight 261 Chief Executive, The - Find Articles
		Alaska Airlines Flight 261 from Puerto Vallarta to San Francisco is reported to have fallen off the radar scope approximately 20 miles north of the Point Mugu, California, coast...
		Within seconds, another reporter was on the line asking about an Alaska plane in the water even as flight operations called to confirm the apparent fate of Flight 261.
		At 8 p.m., Kelly and his team were in the air to L.A. for a press conference attended by relatives and friends of the passengers and crew of Flight 261.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m4070/is_2000_Oct/ai_66811888 (899 words)

	Woman who preached to Alaska Airlines passengers on doomed flight-Fiction!
		The email being circulated says that a pastor's wife on a doomed Alaska Airlines plane addressed the passengers for 9 minutes and led them in prayer before the plane crashed.
		Alaska flight 261 crashed off the coast of California on January 31, 2000.
		The pilot also told that the flight data recorder from the plane indicates that there is no good explanation for how the plane was able to stay in the air for those final nine minutes.
	www.truthorfiction.com /rumors/a/alaskaflight261.htm (784 words)

	Alaskan Airlines Flight 261 - trim tabs amiss?
		On Monday, all 88 passengers and crew aboard Alaskan Airlines Flight 261 perished when the MD-83 they were in plunged into the waters just off the Channel Islands, near the coast of Los Angeles.
		Based on a statement from Alaskan Airlines about the crew's conversation with the Los Angeles control tower, it has been speculated that the plane fell from the sky because of malfunctioning control tabs at the rear stabilizer.
		Located on the horizontal wing at the rear of the plane (also known as the tailplane), these tabs are responsible for fine-tuning the pitch of the plane.
	www.exn.ca /FlightDeck/News/story.cfm?ID=20000201-55 (919 words)

	Accidents and Incidents
		However 46 Passengers and 4 crew survived, including both pilots and two Flight Attendants who were known to be Christians ~ they were people of prayer who were committed to their passengers and colleagues throughout this ordeal.
		Early in the flight, warning lights illuminated then extinguished, there were uncommanded autopilot disconnects and changes in aircraft zero fuel weight as shown on the control and display unit.
		Boeing and the NTSB attributed the in-flight faults to a main battery negative cable which was insecurely attached because of a stripped nut, and a battery shunt which was not fitted to specification.
	www.airborne.org /flying/forum1.htm (2008 words)

	AirDisaster.Com: Accident Photo: Alaska Airlines Flight 261
		The aircraft was on a flight from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico to San Francisco, California, when the crew reported that they were encountering problems with the stabilizer trim.
		At 28,000 feet, the crew reported that they were unable to control the pitch of the aircraft.
		The last radio contact with the crew came as the aircraft passed 17,000 feet at an unusually slow speed of 119 knots.
	www.airdisaster.com /photos/asa261/photo.shtml (116 words)

	NTSB - Alaska Airlines Flight 261 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bernard Loeb(r), with CVR and FDR from Alaska Airlines Flight 261
		investigative hearing on the crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261.
		On January 31, 2000, the National Transportation Safety Board launched a Go Team to Oxnard, California, to begin its investigation of the crash of Alaska Airlines flight 261.
	www.ntsb.gov /events/2000/aka261/default.htm (199 words)

	CNN.com - Alaska Airlines pilots struggled to save plane - December 13, 2000
		The exchange between the two men was caught on a cockpit voice recorder minutes before Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashed into the Pacific Ocean on January 31, killing the crew and all 88 passengers aboard.
		Alaska Airlines must demonstrate improved maintenance record keeping to FAA
		Alaska Airlines probe focuses on 1997 inspection of stabilizer jackscrew
	archives.cnn.com /2000/US/12/13/alaska.airlines.02/index.html (633 words)

	Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Flight 261 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On Jan. 31, 2000, Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashed off the coast of California, killing 88 people bound for Seattle.
		Flight 261 crash hearing remains in D.C. Flight 261's emotional damages
		Alaska Air lawsuits to be heard in San Francisco
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /flight261 (597 words)

	Alaska Airlines Flight 261- January 31, 2000
		This list may or may not be complete and is subject to errors and should not be taken as an official source of information.
		On January 31, 2000, about 1621 Pacific standard time, Alaska Airlines, Inc., flight 261, a McDonnell Douglas MD-83, N963AS, crashed into the Pacific Ocean about 2.7 miles north of Anacapa Island, California.
		The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was a loss of airplane pitch control resulting from the in-flight failure of the horizontal stabilizer trim system jackscrew assembly's acme nut threads.
	people.cs.und.edu /~jshields/Accidents/alaska_261.htm (321 words)

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