Pilots Struggle as Airplane Nosedives / Alaska Airlines Flight 261 Crashes off California Coast
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The plane went into a dive at four 11. The captain then contacted air traffic control and told him they'd lost control of vertical pitch, he says. Yeca: They hade to pull a lot to recover from the dive. And it's become very difficult to maintain level flight," she adds. "I don't know why it's called a pickle switch."
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