Failed Jackscrew Claims 88 Lives | Mayday Air Disaster
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- In this episode of Mayday Air Disaster, the video recounts the tragic story of Alaska Airlines Flight 261, which crashed in January 2000 due to a catastrophic failure of its jackscrew, a critical tail component. The accident, which claimed 88 lives, was precipitated by insufficient maintenance and extended service intervals. The investigation revealed systemic negligence within the airline and significant regulatory oversights. The narrative highlights the human cost of this disaster, the technical failures involved, and the profound impact on the victims' families. This episode delves deep into the tragic events and their aftermath.
Mayday Air Disaster | S01:E05
00:00 - Introduction and Immediate Alarm
01:04 - Flight 261: A Catastrophic Failure
02:19 - Passengers on Board
03:21 - Experienced Crew and Aircraft Background
05:44 - Early Signs of Trouble
10:00 - Troubleshooting Mid-Flight
13:32 - Desperate Maneuvers to Control the Plane
18:32 - Maintenance and Regulatory Failures
27:16 - The Crash and Immediate Aftermath
36:02 - Investigation and Findings
49:05 - Memorial and Reflections
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"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!
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.
How sad is it that whistleblowers are told to expect you will lose not only your job, but your career.
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.
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
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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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.
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.
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.
Wow, these pilots are incredible. Fighting until the end!
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
Greed over Safety, profit over passengers is writen through the aviation industry like rock candy. Independent inspections at random will save lives
I completely lost it at 28:43. I can feel the AGONIZING pain of that poor woman’s voice in my very soul. 😢😪
The pilots did all they could , May the souls of everyone on board Rest In Peace 😔
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.
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.
The pilot actors are terrific.
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💔🙏
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...
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
Why are the managers not in prision ??
You should ask why arnt the CEOs is prison
Because in America money talks 🫠
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👍
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!!!
So many ads - YT needs to ease up
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.
Its why maintenance crew should be paid more than CEOs
Hearing the pilot say “here we go” right before crashing is so haunting 😭😭
"If you want to try it, that's ok with me. See you at the gate." Thanks maintenance guy.
McDonnell Douglas never had any concept 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.
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 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.
Nice Episode
such an interesting and touching episode
That was emotional, the pilots tried to the very end.
Congratulations on hitting 500k subscribers!!!
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.
Way way way way too many commercials CZcams. Stop ruining all the videos.
Questiion: Is there a way to see later episodes? Is there a playlist by season?
Don’t need the personal injury lawyers input.
25:15 You never give up trying to find a solution. You die still working the problem. Or you survive to land safely
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.
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…
Many say that flying is supposed to be the safest way to travel...after watching a lot of these videos , I don't agree with that. I can't even imagine what was going through everyone's minds on this flight..so scary! R.I.P. 🥺
Right! Before COVID I traveled so so much internationally and domestically after watching these videos I am so grateful to God and now, I can’t fathom getting back on an airplane
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.
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
Ill never fly. Too many things can go wrong. Humans not meant to be in the air. If we were, wed have wings.
The stabilizer is not like another wing. In fact it is the opposite of a wing, holding the tail down, not up.
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.
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.
If you have "an unusual problem," YOU LAND.
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...
Those pilots did everything humanly possible. Were even concerned about possible additional deaths on the ground.
r.i.p. to all on board. we haven't forgot you.
There was wind blowing in the captains face as if it was a convertible! Lol
As a visually impaired person I would like to thank you for reading what you put on the screen at the beginning.
So very sad that WELL-TRAINED, COMPETENT PILOTS GET F'D BY MONEY-GRUBBING IDIOTS. AIRLINE CREW GENUINELY CARE FOR THEIR PASSENGERS. MY HEART HURTS FOR THE DECEIT INFLICTED UPON THEM.💝💯♾️
Keep in mind things have not improved at all, two whistleblowers who were set to speak out against Boeing both just died "normal" deaths. Pffft. Follow the money, passenger lives are not as important as that green.
RIP
,,These pilots did everything in there power too save everyone on board... RIP tll those pilots and passengers on board flight 261 Alaska was doomed..
PROFIT OVER PEOPLE.
When people grease there jacks before work 😂 and they forgot to grease a planes jack😂😂😂
Great job on video, analysis
these are the days of reveng, so sweet...
The movie "Flight" was based on this incident.
@@charlesbland1073 Cheers
47:15 And yet not even two decades later, this is broken by Boeing, losing over 300 lives in 5 months of each other.
To think a lack of molykoye/never sieze caused the bolt to strip out the sleeve nut…
Would a plane a similar situation now divert to a the nearest Mexican airport instead of waiting to land in LA?
32:11 why not 4 of them ? 3 dedicated ? everything is dedicated or doubled in safety....... a 2 bucks cheap screw killed 88 people..... so sad. 4 or even 8 of them!!!!!!
Whistleblower = Truth teller.
This is an old video. I saw it last year. Good acting.
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.
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
Rip❤❤❤❤❤
Yay another re upload.
I'm GLAD there aren't new crashes to watch...aren't you?
@@juliemanarin4127 that's not the point Karen.
There are other channels to watch, even just in this category of airline disasters. Why not explore those? Clearly, the majority of people despise rerouns!
@@maryr.1650 they are all the same. Air disasters is played on like 5 different channels.
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.
They could of possibly landed the plane at LAX
I thought the same thing but they were concerned about all the people on the ground. If they tried to land at LAX and the plane went down? More lives would have been Lost. They did the right thing troubleshooting over the ocean. RIP 😥
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
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
Short cuts are what the industry is about and collecting that money with the least amount of maintenance. They say we are lazy but El Cracko is the laziest bar none
Id be suing if i were that guy who got fired.
The pilots did with the knowledge they have. This was the airlines mechanics and supervisors fault because the higher ups wanted to save money, which cost lives to be lost.
Look at Boeing now...astronauts are stuck on the ISS now and most crashes of late are from Boeing. Yet their stock never drops.
0:23 at least they weren't shot or killed by gunshots - partypeople
MD-80’s….McDonal Douglas became Boeing….Not a surprise.
The 2012 film "Flight" is loosely based on the tragedy.
My mouth is soo full of abusive words to maintainance people of the aicrafts, if I mouth them here , it would be very ughly😂😂
Cheap parts bought by purchasing agent and deflected to maintenance for the loss, while cutting hours. What happened to truth and honor.
Jail terms for all involved
That intro tho! 👌
IT WONT BRING THEM BACK BUT SUE THIS AIRLINE.
They should have learn by now.
MCDD was never an aircraft manufactuar to be trusted
Its old bec they lost many episodes from seasons 2 to 7
"There but for the Grace of God go you and I."
When you cut costs, cut the fat, not the muscle.
Whistleblowers should be protected by law!!!
Welcome to American Capitalism, where its more celebrated to save money than it is to save lives. Its the same thing happening tnis very day.
Not caused by capitalism...caused by greed
And you think this doesn't happen to other countries? You aren't very informed then are you.
@@juliemanarin4127 Did I not say "American" before the "Capitalism"?
Not to mention laziness!
Do Marxist or Communist planes not also crash?
Ooooh a new episode that hasn’t been upload 1000 times with a different title! 😮
I would rather watch repeats than have new crashes!!
Absolutely @@juliemanarin4127
Exactly.
What a dumb comment and traveling is so overrated
My second time watching this, and my cheeks are wet😢