The Tragic Downfall Of Air Alaska Flight 261 | Mayday S1 EP5 | Wonder
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- Опубликовано: 31 мар 2021
- Air Alaska Flight 261 dives into the ocean shortly after takeoff, killing the 88 passengers and crew on board. Did maintenance errors cause the tragic crash?
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Who else is stuck on a long, strangely-specific youtube binge of airline disaster docuseries?
It's crazy what a world we live in where a person who was genuinely trying to prevent the accident lost his career and those who really caused the accident purely by greed and negligence never got their punishment, it utterly disgusts me.
These actors portraying the pilots really made this episode one of the best of the series. I wish things had ended differently for the pilots and passengers
The fact no one at the company faced criminal prosecution for falsifying maintenance records is the biggest spit in the face for the victims families
As an airline mechanic myself, I pay VERY close attention when I work on primary flight controls. I've changed the stabilizer actuators on the ERJ before. They're better-designed than the one on the MDs I think. They have two parallel screws instead of one, and have a sealed oil reservoir instead of grease. But still, it's scary to know only four bolts are keeping that plane in the air. I take all the time I need to make sure it's installed 100% correctly, no matter how much the supervisor wants to rush us. I'll NEVER let sub-par maintenance hurt the people who fly on my planes.
The pilots never gave up, in the black box recording you can tell how they truly believed they could save the plane up until the very last second. They never gave up. Heroes.
This is one of the saddest incidents to me. The pilots were so skilled and tried everything to save the aircraft. They did everything until the end.
What’s crazy is that John Liotine was banned from working in the airline industry when he was defamed. He’s a hero and there should be more like him! Smh
IMO it's really stupid that the guy who actually ordered the jackscrew to be replaced ended up without a job and no longer being able to work in the industry, instead of the actual person who dismissed the recommendation. What a twisted world we live in. SMH.
Captain Ted Thompson and First Officer Bill Tansky were both posthumously awarded the Air Line Pilots Association Gold Medal for Heroism, in recognition of their actions during this flight. It's the only time the award has ever been given posthumously.
Any time you hear someone complain about "government regulations" in these industries, just remember that these regulations are written in the blood of those who died without them.
I have seen almost all of these episodes, and I think they're really well done. However, the men who portrayed the two pilots in this episode were phenomenal. I felt every emotion with them. I don't know who they are but great performance guys!!!
The pilots fought till the end. Heroes. Those last words, "Here we go," really moved me. RIP to them and all on board.
Although the whole event was tragic and so many lost their lives, the fact that those pilots did everything in their power, never giving up, even right up till the end...that got to me. They're heroes regardless of the outcome.
Listening to the pilots from neighboring planes was so chilling. Can you imagine seeing all of that and being completely helpless to stop it?
My brother was driving us down the 101 back to LAX to catch our flight home and I was looking out the right side at the ocean. I couldn’t believe it when I saw this plane hit the water. I thought it was a small personal aircraft. Distance can make things deceiving. The huge plume of water was unreal.
I don’t call this an accident, call it for what it was, murder by total negligence!
They should have been hearing: "Oh. Your horizontal stabilizer won't move. Get on the ground now!" Not "Well you can do that but you know it's going to mess up our schedule." Those people at Alaska should have gone to prison for mass murder.
Every person in management and maintenance at Alaska airlines should be made to watch this non stop for 24 hours
I knew Ted and Bill. I took this flight from SFO to LAX 1 to 3 times a month regularly for business for a year or two. We would chat sometime before the flight. Ted learned to fly in the Air force and Bill in the Navy. Sometime the would joke about being on Bill and Teds excellent adventure. Don't get me wrong, they were serious professional pilots and felt safe and they could handle anything that happened. I felt safe with them at the wheel. They are part of the reason that was my first choice when booking a flight to LAX from SFO.