Pilots Struggle as Airplane Nosedives / Alaska Airlines Flight 261 Crashes off California Coast
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Alaska Airlines Maintenance Programme Was Mismanaged
At the time of the flight two, 61 accident, alaska airlines maintenance programme had widespread systemic deficiencies. The n t s b determined that the probable cause of this accident was ha loss of airplane pitch control resulting from the inflightfa of the horizontal stabilizer trim jackscrew assemblies,. acme nut threads. thread failure was caused by excessive wear resulting from alaska airlines insufficient lubrication of the jack screw assembly. Also contributing to the accident was the absence on the mcdonald douglas m d 80 of a fail safe mechanism to prevent the catastrophic effects of a total acme nut thread loss. There's no redundant system, or there's no fail safe in case something goes wrong with this
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