I don't know why I watch these. Now every time I get on a plane hear the narration in my head, "A thirty year old man boards what was supposed to be routine flight from Atlanta to Nashville ..."
take offs and landings + planes turning make me nervous cause of this show. of course my college city is four states away from texas which means multiple flights a year for holidays. how fun.
and yet companies like this will always insist they have a zero tolerance for retaliation policy. I doubt the people most responsible for this tragedy ever really suffered consequences for it
"Where they went wrong... ".. NO. Absolutely No. The pilots had no idea what was wrong. Don't blame this on the pilots, who did everything they could with the knowledge they had.
IMO, Alaska Airlines was never held properly accountable. This *did not* have to happen. It was easily preventable but the lack of oversight and failure to properly maintain their aircraft made this flight doomed from the very beginning. Those poor passengers, especially children. How horrible:(
People who make these truly evil business decisions….dores it haunt them at night ? Do they feel they have blood on their hands? They commit mass homicide and get away with it! And it is systemic,top down, a management thing. Blaming the front line worker who just did as they were told, and who probably ARE haunted is unfair.
The co-pilot Bill Tansky was a neighbor of my family's in Alameda (small town in SF Bay Area). I was 15 when the plane crashed and he was killed. I remember him always being a funny upbeat guy. This video is quite eery seeing some other actor portray him.
No kidding! I didn't know that he was from Alameda! I was born & raised in the east end near Lincoln Park! I knew that the airport was a maintenance facility for Alaska though. Wow.
Thanks for remembering him. It's easy for many of us to forget that those actors portrayed a real human being, who had a pretty normal life before it ended so tragically.
41:40 "Alaska officials denied that any unsafe planes were put into service." So they said that Alaska 261 was a safe plane? Alaska agreed to pay about $500,000 to settle a libel suit brought by company mechanic/whistleblower John Liotine, whose allegations triggered the criminal investigation in 1998. Unfortunately, they only paid that after Mr. Liotine sued the airline for defamation. Mr. Liotine worked at the Oakland, California Alaska maintenance facility.
It’s always about money all these companies care about is how much money they make so those higher ups and ceos are able to pay for their boats, private jets, mansions etc…
Anytime you see someone making tons of money and the safety of people don't matter to them, it is called human sacrifice for them to aquire their wealth.
yeah, i think it's just how heroically the pilots fought against absolutely impossible odds. reminds me of the JAL 747 crash - the one that was improperly repaired and lost its tail midflight, lost all hydraulics, and was only "controllable" via throttle. they fought for thirty minutes before finally crashing into a mountainside.
There was more than one of those jack screws that failed. I remember after the last one they started inspecting them and found several damaged from not greasing them.
RIP to all those on Alaska 261 you will forever be remembered in our hearts.The pilot’s will forever be known as hero’s for doing everything they could to prevent this
Yeah, just ask our current crop who are trying to expose the very bad actions of our three letter agencies, who are best described with salty four letter expletives.
88 people lost their lives all because one person wasn’t listened to!! This could have easily been prevented! My heart goes out to all the families who lost loved ones on Flight 261
I remember this incident well, as a friend of mine was on the same flight a week earlier. The MD 80 Jack screw failure. I would not get on one of those planes if it was the last plane on earth. I remember them taxiing and rotating the rear stabilizer, up and down to make sure they were working before they took off, after this failure occurred. Very scary.
Those pilots literally battling until impact... heroes. Redundancy is why flying is soo safe, but its almost always only needed because airlines basically govern themselves and miss or in this case deliberately avoid maintenance. What was the FFA's outcome? Who went to jail for killing 88 people?
In my days in the Navy paint/oil spills were treated lightly until the EPA threatened to fine the commanding officers of the responsible ships $100,000. Guest what? No more spills and/or they are quickly contained. Most hold upper management responsible or nothing will change - in all industries.
40:40 He could have saved lives. Instead he was ignored by the government who did nothing to protect him from retaliation. Ensuring others would not do what he did in the future.
I definitely remember this crash. My cousin & cousin-in-law (her husband) were still working for Alaska and it had a huge impact. They knew the crew and some of the passengers.
The FAA is very much to blame for this crash. The FAA agents did not intervene properly to stop the Alaska Airlines directors and technicians to cut corners, nor did they take any measures in the 2 years prior to the crash, although they knew what was going on. The FAA rules for immediate and proper intervention to prevent a crash are purposefuly wrong.
At about 48:00 there was a bit about not making the horizontal system redundant. It actually was. They had two motors to operate it. Nobody ever expected a jackscrew to fail .... and it wouldn't have with proper maintenance. I was aircraft maintenance, USAF, for 23 years: 73 to 96.
This particular episode has haunted me forever, and absolutely brutal way to die as I'm watching I'm yelling to the pilots to please "TURN AROUND"!, may they all rest in peace. Also some of the best acting I've seen in this series💔🙏
Yet to this day even under massive scrutiny presently, Boeing continues to cut corners and are once again cutting costs by choosing speed over functionality, and if it keeps up we’ll unfortunately be seeing more of this…a small oversight or mishandled task in maintenance, will come back to haunt them, too bad any whistleblower now is far too scared to blow the whistle after what happened to the latest one.
@@ml8452 Sadly, it’s not just Boeing.. this episode dives into the maintenance malpractice amongst airlines. Even to this day, it’s not always the manufacturer that cuts corners, but more often than not, it’s the airline companies..
A colleague of mine was the last air traffic controller to talk to this aircraft. This was at Los Angeles Center, which is a radar facility controlling aircraft 14,000’ and above. He had just transferred control to another controller, where I was working at the time, to Los Angeles Approach Control at So Cal TRACON. The aircraft never checked in to that second controller. Extremely upsetting to us when these tragedies happen. 😢
PS- the Center does not have windows. A majority of air traffic controllers are radar controllers, our control rooms have no windows, and the lights are always off. This reduces the glare on the scopes, and makes them easier to see targets and such.
They are loads of new air crash videos documenting this and different air crashes but you cant beat the voice and recreation footage of theses early 2000s air crash documentaries
The DC-8 was built like a tank. The DC-9 was a great airplane. But after that, McDonnell Douglas seemed to lose awareness of fail-safe redundant design. The flying coffin that was the DC-10 was ample proof of that.
McDonnell Douglas is one of the worst companies with which any other brand can associate with. Merger with Boeing screwed that company's safety culture by the late 1990s into the 21st century, and now are paying the price.
Its sooooooo scary to think of all of the times that my whole family and I flew Akaskan Airlines.... YIKES...... just tragic for all of these people and their families!!!
Jackscrew, pylon nut, cargo hatch latches, metal corrosion, hydraulic lines, O rings, tank insulation, etc. All failed mechanical parts that the world is now familar with that have sadly taken so many innocent lives.
Of all the episodes on Air crash investigation this one i think is the most heartbreaking, not a hope for them. R.I.P to all on board and the especially the hero pilots.
On the first airing of this crash I commented on the design flaw due to lack of redundancy. I am glad it is being addressed here. I would like to suggest that the stabilizer be divided into two, a left and right, and each half has its own actuator. If one half fails, the other half can offer some control.
UA-cam premium is $15/mo. Well worth not seeing a single ad ever! Especially if that’s your primary platform for consumption of media. Just saying, I don’t have $200/mo. Cable, UA-cam premium is where it’s at.
It always comes down to money when tragedy strikes. No criminal charges. The airline should have been charged criminally for causing the deaths, and sent to prison.
It is insane that the executives of airlines can escape responsibility for accidents that happen because of a decision to cut corners in order to make an extra buck. Sure, they cannot be blame for any and all accidents, but AA flight 261 happened for no other reason than the very conscious decision to cut maintenance costs. It should not be allowed for settle out of court for 88 counts of involuntary manslaughter. Because that's what the then-CEO of Alaska Airlines, John Kelly (no, not the general), should be charged with. He is personally responsible for this accident.
I grew up and live where the plane crashed. There's a memorial on Port Hueneme beach. They crashed near Anacapa Island. If only they had a little more control they could have landed at Point Mugu or Camarillo just about 10 and 20 miles away.
The design of the Jack screw remains the same. It still has no fail safe provision. If it fails again the same thing will happen. Is this an American mentality towards the value of life versus costs of doing the necessary work?
@@thecommonsenseconservative5576 How many people had to die before last year just so an airline can make a buck off a faulty plane they knew was flawed?
I cant believe a major airline like Alaska would of cut corners like this though, it was only a matter of time before a major accident would of resulted in their bad practices. The fact that the pilots wanted to divert to Los Angeles for safety reasons and Alaska Airlines Dispatch tried to persuade them not to, makes it even worse.
What it must have felt like for those other pilots reporting into the LAX Tower watching the plane dive and crash and being unable to do anything, and what it must have felt like for the controller receiving those reports. Horrible.
Regardless of what happened the crew worked well together they were communicating (they tried to the last minute)and of course, rest in peace to everyone that was lost
😢😢😢😢 I respect the pilots ❤ They've tried to do everything they could, everything they knew but they were left alone 😢 The best pilots this plane can have
The fact that Alaska Airlines just casually murdered those people and they couldnt care less. Makes me absolutely sick. I bet none of those managers would have flown om their own planes. The fact that there was ZERO consequences maks me angry and dosgusted..there is literally no deterrence..the fines were measley in comparison to what they saves so in fact this just encourages them. Disgusting!!
The main thing I’ve learned from this show is that the cause of pretty much all crashes is capitalism and the fact that profit is more valuable than lives. Even in the cases where crashes occur due to pilot error, it’s usually the result of them being overworked and/or undertrained.
I had to come watch this. I just had a crazy dream I was coming home from Mexico (a place I’ve never been) and I just knew the plane was going to go down but I didn’t not get on and idk why. Everyone else was excited and I couldn’t even sit near my other family members. We took off and everyone was clapping and laughing and cheering and I thought “Well, 2 hours till home…” and as soon as I thought that, the plane just went down and everyone started screaming and the guy sitting next to me asked to hold my hand and I said “Sure. It’ll be over soon.” And I held his hand and I knew it was a dream at that point and woke up. I immediately thought of Alaska 261 and all the people on board and how terrified they must have been. Like I know it’s over in an instant but how does your brain even fathom that you ARE going to die. My heart goes out to the passengers and their families and this is why we can’t even for a moment let companies police themselves. They’re not people. They don’t feel or care. They’re objective is to make money. There’s no company out there that says “Hey, as long as everyone is treated right, paid well, and we make a difference who cares if we break even or lose money….” You’d better believe that if a company had to choose between making money and your loved one(s), money comes first and foremost…
The captain was so considerate he didnt want anymore live to be taken so he decided it was best to go over the bay. Even in his last moments he though about that... smh😢
What is wrong with the audio in this video? At 40 minutes it begins to start acting up. It's normal and it is super fast than it's normal and then it's super fast. That's speeding up has occurred in other parts of this tape.
Just another example of corporate greed. Sadly people died because ‘that’s the cost of doing business’ and that’s where we’ve gone wrong in this world. It’s not that we have to make money, it’s that we have to make more and more of it and no matter who or what gets in the way, the almighty dollar is what we crave. I really do wish things were different.
Sadly, too many large corporations put profits before human lives. It’s not just the airlines. The ‘top dogs’ in the corporations have forgotten that it is those very same human lives who provide the income.
just for no greace on an jackscrew killed 88 people just to make more money is just not acceptable ,and when paying customers are expecting an safe trip somewhere should not be allowed to happen such an loss of life for something so simple RIP to all those who perished for nothing
Every part of a machine has a lifespan especially hard working aircraft. If this is glossed over its just a matter of time before that part fails. In this case, the cost is in lives.
One problem with all these companies is it’s only about Money, profit margins etc they could care less about safety it’s the same tune with every company cutting costs etc just because of some money hungry owner or ceo
The pilots couldn’t overcome the problem. The mechanics were partially to blame because they proceeded with falsifying records and not doing the maintenance properly. The people to blame is the bosses of the company! As an engineer, I hate hearing that companies ‘have to cut costs’ but it’s NEVER the CEO or higher ups that make the cut to their salaries. It’s always cut costs that affects safety of passengers and crew.
Which is why their safety record is magnificent. Don't believe me go look it up. You watch this video and think planes are falling out of the sky daily
@@thecommonsenseconservative5576 Well…..THIS ONE SURE DID!!! And it is entirely because this airline only cared about money. You have no idea what I think or believe.
I don't know why I watch these. Now every time I get on a plane hear the narration in my head, "A thirty year old man boards what was supposed to be routine flight from Atlanta to Nashville ..."
Haha same. I fly for work, why oh why am I watching this,
Exactly 😂 Makes me think about a few flights I had that felt risky.
take offs and landings + planes turning make me nervous cause of this show. of course my college city is four states away from texas which means multiple flights a year for holidays. how fun.
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Imagine flying in the world of DEI 🥴
I feel so dam bad for the whistleblowers he warned them multiple time and they decided to fire him
and yet companies like this will always insist they have a zero tolerance for retaliation policy. I doubt the people most responsible for this tragedy ever really suffered consequences for it
Like Boeing recently...disgusting
He tried, he has no blame. This is just corporate greed, the root of all evil “money”.
He should take this to the media and sue those bastard's!!!!
@@juliemanarin4127 Yeah but WORSE - 2 out of 3 of them are now dead because they blew the whistle & that 3rd guy had his life threatened as well.
"Where they went wrong... ".. NO. Absolutely No. The pilots had no idea what was wrong. Don't blame this on the pilots, who did everything they could with the knowledge they had.
The pilots were professional and so damn brave. What a tragedy.
To be fair. They did a remake of this episode and depict this aspect now just as you describe.
I agree 😢
Facts 💫✨
So, if you are a whistle blower you will never work in the industry again. Un fuckin believable!
IMO, Alaska Airlines was never held properly accountable. This *did not* have to happen. It was easily preventable but the lack of oversight and failure to properly maintain their aircraft made this flight doomed from the very beginning. Those poor passengers, especially children.
How horrible:(
when cash becomes the most important instead of doing the right thing.
I was going to make almost the same comment.
Alaska airline should return back to Mexico airport the minute they found the problem….
People who make these truly evil business decisions….dores it haunt them at night ? Do they feel they have blood on their hands? They commit mass homicide and get away with it! And it is systemic,top down, a management thing. Blaming the front line worker who just did as they were told, and who probably ARE haunted is unfair.
The co-pilot Bill Tansky was a neighbor of my family's in Alameda (small town in SF Bay Area). I was 15 when the plane crashed and he was killed. I remember him always being a funny upbeat guy. This video is quite eery seeing some other actor portray him.
No kidding! I didn't know that he was from Alameda! I was born & raised in the east end near Lincoln Park! I knew that the airport was a maintenance facility for Alaska though. Wow.
@@tracycapilot2002 Yeah my family and he and his wife lived on Bay Farm.
Thanks for remembering him. It's easy for many of us to forget that those actors portrayed a real human being, who had a pretty normal life before it ended so tragically.
Must be tough seeing your neighbor dying in this type of accident. Truly sorry for your neighbors loss of life
41:40 "Alaska officials denied that any unsafe planes were put into service." So they said that Alaska 261 was a safe plane? Alaska agreed to pay about $500,000 to settle a libel suit brought by company mechanic/whistleblower John Liotine, whose allegations triggered the criminal investigation in 1998. Unfortunately, they only paid that after Mr. Liotine sued the airline for defamation. Mr. Liotine worked at the Oakland, California Alaska maintenance facility.
Good on him!! Certain legal protections should be in place for whistle blowers!
Is he still alive? I hope so...look at Boeing
@@midgie1166 Yeah, but the courts didn't hold Alaska liable.
That’s an appallingly low amount of money even in 1998 values.
@@mattbrown5949 I am wondering if the law had caps on the amounts that could be paid back then.
Wow, these pilots are incredible. Fighting until the end!
How sad is it that whistleblowers are told to expect you will lose not only your job, but your career.
And even their lives. Weird how those 2 boeing whistle-blower just died "unexpectedly"
Hearing the pilot say “here we go” right before crashing is so haunting 😭😭
Profits before people with horrifying results. The management and the supervisors who forged those work orders should have been jailed for life!!
It’s always about money all these companies care about is how much money they make so those higher ups and ceos are able to pay for their boats, private jets, mansions etc…
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Anytime you see someone making tons of money and the safety of people don't matter to them, it is called human sacrifice for them to aquire their wealth.
Even 24 years later, via a re-enactment, this is so hard to listen to, knowing how it ends. It's absolutely devastating.😱😵😰😭
Rubbish design. Rubbish engineering.
i know, i survived that crash but was hidden from public
I watch it always hoping they make it back but obviously that is never the case
@@maryr.1650 Tears come to my eyes, just how hard those pilots worked to save those people & the greediness that cost them all. Terrible!
yeah, i think it's just how heroically the pilots fought against absolutely impossible odds. reminds me of the JAL 747 crash - the one that was improperly repaired and lost its tail midflight, lost all hydraulics, and was only "controllable" via throttle. they fought for thirty minutes before finally crashing into a mountainside.
There was more than one of those jack screws that failed. I remember after the last one they started inspecting them and found several damaged from not greasing them.
Greed over Safety, profit over passengers is writen through the aviation industry like rock candy. Independent inspections at random will save lives
RIP to all those on Alaska 261 you will forever be remembered in our hearts.The pilot’s will forever be known as hero’s for doing everything they could to prevent this
They always get rid of the whistleblowers😖
Yeah, just ask our current crop who are trying to expose the very bad actions of our three letter agencies, who are best described with salty four letter expletives.
Yes...they sure do 😢
Just look at Boeing because that would mean accountability
corporate greed is the cause. they care about profits over people.
They took out one of the recent Boeing ones
The pilot actors are terrific.
88 people lost their lives all because one person wasn’t listened to!! This could have easily been prevented! My heart goes out to all the families who lost loved ones on Flight 261
The pilots did all they could , May the souls of everyone on board Rest In Peace 😔
What a flight crew. They never gave up. They never stopped flying the aircraft
I remember this incident well, as a friend of mine was on the same flight a week earlier. The MD 80 Jack screw failure. I would not get on one of those planes if it was the last plane on earth. I remember them taxiing and rotating the rear stabilizer, up and down to make sure they were working before they took off, after this failure occurred. Very scary.
This flight sticks in my mind because of the acting in this episode. It was so intense by the pilots
I knew someone who was on this flight. I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I heard her plane had gone down.
Those pilots literally battling until impact... heroes. Redundancy is why flying is soo safe, but its almost always only needed because airlines basically govern themselves and miss or in this case deliberately avoid maintenance. What was the FFA's outcome? Who went to jail for killing 88 people?
In my days in the Navy paint/oil spills were treated lightly until the EPA threatened to fine the commanding officers of the responsible ships $100,000. Guest what? No more spills and/or they are quickly contained. Most hold upper management responsible or nothing will change - in all industries.
40:40 He could have saved lives. Instead he was ignored by the government who did nothing to protect him from retaliation. Ensuring others would not do what he did in the future.
I definitely remember this crash. My cousin & cousin-in-law (her husband) were still working for Alaska and it had a huge impact. They knew the crew and some of the passengers.
The FAA is very much to blame for this crash. The FAA agents did not intervene properly to stop the Alaska Airlines directors and technicians to cut corners, nor did they take any measures in the 2 years prior to the crash, although they knew what was going on. The FAA rules for immediate and proper intervention to prevent a crash are purposefuly wrong.
The people responsible should've been held accountable for this tragedy smh RIP to all on board. Horrifying
At about 48:00 there was a bit about not making the horizontal system redundant. It actually was.
They had two motors to operate it. Nobody ever expected a jackscrew to fail .... and it wouldn't have with proper maintenance.
I was aircraft maintenance, USAF, for 23 years: 73 to 96.
you know of what you speak👍
This particular episode has haunted me forever, and absolutely brutal way to die as I'm watching I'm yelling to the pilots to please "TURN AROUND"!, may they all rest in peace. Also some of the best acting I've seen in this series💔🙏
As a visually impaired person I would like to thank you for reading what you put on the screen at the beginning.
Those pilots did everything humanly possible. Were even concerned about possible additional deaths on the ground.
These episodes are so scary for someone who flies regularly, but they are so addictive
I cannot help watching
Why are the managers not in prision ??
You should ask why arnt the CEOs is prison
Because in America money talks 🫠
@FlowKio your god damn right welcome to THE UNITED CORPORATIONS OF AMERICA
"If you want to try it, that's ok with me. See you at the gate." Thanks maintenance guy.
@@mikeyerian2562 right what a useless asshole
@@mikeyerian2562 yeah he was real helpful wasn't he?
Its why maintenance crew should be paid more than CEOs
You can't cut corners, when it comes to airplane maintenance, after all isn't air travel dangerous enough.
Yet to this day even under massive scrutiny presently, Boeing continues to cut corners and are once again cutting costs by choosing speed over functionality, and if it keeps up we’ll unfortunately be seeing more of this…a small oversight or mishandled task in maintenance, will come back to haunt them, too bad any whistleblower now is far too scared to blow the whistle after what happened to the latest one.
@@ml8452 Sadly, it’s not just Boeing.. this episode dives into the maintenance malpractice amongst airlines. Even to this day, it’s not always the manufacturer that cuts corners, but more often than not, it’s the airline companies..
You can, it'll just have severe consequences. But as it turns out you can, and people do...
I completely lost it at 28:43. I can feel the AGONIZING pain of that poor woman’s voice in my very soul. 😢😪
These disasters always bring me to tears.😢
A colleague of mine was the last air traffic controller to talk to this aircraft. This was at Los Angeles Center, which is a radar facility controlling aircraft 14,000’ and above. He had just transferred control to another controller, where I was working at the time, to Los Angeles Approach Control at So Cal TRACON. The aircraft never checked in to that second controller. Extremely upsetting to us when these tragedies happen. 😢
PS- the Center does not have windows. A majority of air traffic controllers are radar controllers, our control rooms have no windows, and the lights are always off. This reduces the glare on the scopes, and makes them easier to see targets and such.
They are loads of new air crash videos documenting this and different air crashes but you cant beat the voice and recreation footage of theses early 2000s air crash documentaries
47:15 And yet not even two decades later, this is broken by Boeing, losing over 300 lives in 5 months of each other.
The DC-8 was built like a tank. The DC-9 was a great airplane. But after that, McDonnell Douglas seemed to lose awareness of fail-safe redundant design. The flying coffin that was the DC-10 was ample proof of that.
McDonnell Douglas is one of the worst companies with which any other brand can associate with. Merger with Boeing screwed that company's safety culture by the late 1990s into the 21st century, and now are paying the price.
Imagine knowing your about to be torn to shreds in just a few minutes. The longest minutes ever. Horrible.
Its sooooooo scary to think of all of the times that my whole family and I flew Akaskan Airlines.... YIKES...... just tragic for all of these people and their families!!!
Jackscrew, pylon nut, cargo hatch latches, metal corrosion, hydraulic lines, O rings, tank insulation, etc.
All failed mechanical parts that the world is now familar with that have sadly taken so many innocent lives.
25:15 You never give up trying to find a solution. You die still working the problem. Or you survive to land safely
That was emotional, the pilots tried to the very end.
This is not the first crash when people were killed by poor company culture. It is a mystery why executives never end up in jail.
Of all the episodes on Air crash investigation this one i think is the most heartbreaking, not a hope for them. R.I.P to all on board and the especially the hero pilots.
I completely agree with you, I have watched a lot of these air crash disasters. This one was hard to watch.
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On the first airing of this crash I commented on the design flaw due to lack of redundancy. I am glad it is being addressed here. I would like to suggest that the stabilizer be divided into two, a left and right, and each half has its own actuator. If one half fails, the other half can offer some control.
So many ads - YT needs to ease up
@@todorshoilekov6756 max 4 ads per show
UA-cam premium is $15/mo. Well worth not seeing a single ad ever! Especially if that’s your primary platform for consumption of media. Just saying, I don’t have $200/mo. Cable, UA-cam premium is where it’s at.
To think I'd go on this very flight as a kid in the 80s and 90s. Same flight SFO-PVR. And I flew there later that year, yikes.
me2, i also flight to the moon and mars after the Challenger Accident
The pilot and co pilot actors played their role very well.. we can experience the horrors they endure 😢😢😢
It always comes down to money when tragedy strikes. No criminal charges.
The airline should have been charged criminally for causing the deaths, and sent to prison.
Agree, it all comes down to the bottom line profit over and above everything else
When an airline goes to extreme lengths at cost cutting and an aircraft manufacturer known for cost cutting meet, there is bound to be disasters...
It is insane that the executives of airlines can escape responsibility for accidents that happen because of a decision to cut corners in order to make an extra buck. Sure, they cannot be blame for any and all accidents, but AA flight 261 happened for no other reason than the very conscious decision to cut maintenance costs. It should not be allowed for settle out of court for 88 counts of involuntary manslaughter. Because that's what the then-CEO of Alaska Airlines, John Kelly (no, not the general), should be charged with. He is personally responsible for this accident.
I grew up and live where the plane crashed. There's a memorial on Port Hueneme beach. They crashed near Anacapa Island. If only they had a little more control they could have landed at Point Mugu or Camarillo just about 10 and 20 miles away.
Questiion: Is there a way to see later episodes? Is there a playlist by season?
They always make the mistake of : NOT declaring Mayday Mayday, it should be done once the issues are out of control. Screw the traffic.
Way way way way too many commercials UA-cam. Stop ruining all the videos.
The stabilizer is not like another wing. In fact it is the opposite of a wing, holding the tail down, not up.
Congratulations on hitting 500k subscribers!!!
when a person kills 88 people: "that's a mass murderer"
when a corporation kills 88 people: "oops, that's the cost of doing business"
The design of the Jack screw remains the same. It still has no fail safe provision.
If it fails again the same thing will happen. Is this an American mentality towards the value of life versus costs of doing the necessary work?
How many people died in major airline crashes last year? Answer that
@@thecommonsenseconservative5576 How many people had to die before last year just so an airline can make a buck off a faulty plane they knew was flawed?
@@jeremycagle19 yeah how many died last year genius. Not a hard question but you obviously don't know the answer
I cant believe a major airline like Alaska would of cut corners like this though, it was only a matter of time before a major accident would of resulted in their bad practices. The fact that the pilots wanted to divert to Los Angeles for safety reasons and Alaska Airlines Dispatch tried to persuade them not to, makes it even worse.
What it must have felt like for those other pilots reporting into the LAX Tower watching the plane dive and crash and being unable to do anything, and what it must have felt like for the controller receiving those reports. Horrible.
Regardless of what happened the crew worked well together they were communicating (they tried to the last minute)and of course, rest in peace to everyone that was lost
Whistleblower = Truth teller.
May all the passengers RIP. Lost some really good well trained pilots because of bad maintenance.😢
Have You Documented The Very First Boeing 747 Crash | The Crash Of Lufthansa Flight 540? I have been looking for it for a while but I can't find it
Don’t need the personal injury lawyers input.
😢😢😢😢
I respect the pilots ❤
They've tried to do everything they could, everything they knew but they were left alone 😢
The best pilots this plane can have
As bad as this crash and loss of lives was, I can't imagine what the pilots of the planes that witnessed the crash must really been traumatized.
Man its heartbreaking😢
It is almost impossible to be whistleblower so continue do not be, because if you do - you will be punished, this how modern world works this day.
r.i.p. to all on board. we haven't forgot you.
The fact that Alaska Airlines just casually murdered those people and they couldnt care less. Makes me absolutely sick. I bet none of those managers would have flown om their own planes. The fact that there was ZERO consequences maks me angry and dosgusted..there is literally no deterrence..the fines were measley in comparison to what they saves so in fact this just encourages them. Disgusting!!
The main thing I’ve learned from this show is that the cause of pretty much all crashes is capitalism and the fact that profit is more valuable than lives. Even in the cases where crashes occur due to pilot error, it’s usually the result of them being overworked and/or undertrained.
I had to come watch this. I just had a crazy dream I was coming home from Mexico (a place I’ve never been) and I just knew the plane was going to go down but I didn’t not get on and idk why. Everyone else was excited and I couldn’t even sit near my other family members. We took off and everyone was clapping and laughing and cheering and I thought “Well, 2 hours till home…” and as soon as I thought that, the plane just went down and everyone started screaming and the guy sitting next to me asked to hold my hand and I said “Sure. It’ll be over soon.” And I held his hand and I knew it was a dream at that point and woke up. I immediately thought of Alaska 261 and all the people on board and how terrified they must have been. Like I know it’s over in an instant but how does your brain even fathom that you ARE going to die. My heart goes out to the passengers and their families and this is why we can’t even for a moment let companies police themselves. They’re not people. They don’t feel or care. They’re objective is to make money. There’s no company out there that says “Hey, as long as everyone is treated right, paid well, and we make a difference who cares if we break even or lose money….” You’d better believe that if a company had to choose between making money and your loved one(s), money comes first and foremost…
Improper maintenance and lackadaisical attitudes are sickening to me.
The captain was so considerate he didnt want anymore live to be taken so he decided it was best to go over the bay. Even in his last moments he though about that... smh😢
What is wrong with the audio in this video? At 40 minutes it begins to start acting up. It's normal and it is super fast than it's normal and then it's super fast.
That's speeding up has occurred in other parts of this tape.
Maintenance was certainly helpful.
Just another example of corporate greed. Sadly people died because ‘that’s the cost of doing business’ and that’s where we’ve gone wrong in this world. It’s not that we have to make money, it’s that we have to make more and more of it and no matter who or what gets in the way, the almighty dollar is what we crave. I really do wish things were different.
such an interesting and touching episode
Sadly, too many large corporations put profits before human lives. It’s not just the airlines. The ‘top dogs’ in the corporations have forgotten that it is those very same human lives who provide the income.
Nice Episode
The movie "Flight" was based on this incident.
@@charlesbland1073 Cheers
So the same thing happened with Brazil’s Voepass Airlines?
just for no greace on an jackscrew killed 88 people just to make more money is just not acceptable ,and when paying customers are expecting an safe trip somewhere should not be allowed to happen such an loss of life for something so simple RIP to all those who perished for nothing
An independent company qualified to do so should do the inspections.
Every part of a machine has a lifespan especially hard working aircraft. If this is glossed over its just a matter of time before that part fails. In this case, the cost is in lives.
One problem with all these companies is it’s only about Money, profit margins etc they could care less about safety it’s the same tune with every company cutting costs etc just because of some money hungry owner or ceo
Love the series but they're just reuploading old stuff again and again.
I guess for people like me I’m still new to here about these stories
I guess for people like me I’m still new to here about these stories
Cos is better than new episodies
Why do you enjoy watching people die for your entertainment 🤔
New episodes are on most torrent sites
PROFIT OVER PEOPLE.
I hate traffic control saying no can yall land somewhere else
And what happened with the corrupt managers?
I've watched a lot of these shows and it always comes down to 2 things Corporate corruption or negligence.
The pilots couldn’t overcome the problem. The mechanics were partially to blame because they proceeded with falsifying records and not doing the maintenance properly. The people to blame is the bosses of the company! As an engineer, I hate hearing that companies ‘have to cut costs’ but it’s NEVER the CEO or higher ups that make the cut to their salaries. It’s always cut costs that affects safety of passengers and crew.
These airlines… always about the dollars. That’s all they care about. Smh
Which is why their safety record is magnificent. Don't believe me go look it up. You watch this video and think planes are falling out of the sky daily
@@thecommonsenseconservative5576 Well…..THIS ONE SURE DID!!!
And it is entirely because this airline only cared about money.
You have no idea what I think or believe.
@@Justice-ef9sk you have zero cognitive ability