To: central_va
Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashed due to vertical stabilizer jack screw failure despite the efforts of the flight crew.
It took about five minutes from failure to crash. They fought all the way down.
21 posted on
03/20/2019 6:35:37 AM PDT by
Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot
Ok, why do we pay people to sit in the cockpit if the auto pilot computer is going to kill us like a HAL 9000? Are pilot’s that lazy? I don’t think so.
24 posted on
03/20/2019 6:38:03 AM PDT by
central_va
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To: Navy Patriot
That crash was due to a mechanical failure which left the elevator disconnected, and no means for the crew to control “pitch”.
Different category of problem.
53 posted on
03/20/2019 7:24:46 AM PDT by
DuncanWaring
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To: Navy Patriot
That was the MD-80 series, right? That design had the elevators at the top of the rudder. Didn't American Airlines ground all their MD-80s after that for repairs?
-PJ
55 posted on
03/20/2019 7:33:52 AM PDT by
Political Junkie Too
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