Alaska Airlines Flight 261: The Jackscrew Failure That Led to Disaster
About this video
Discover how Alaska Airlines Flight 261's horizontal stabilizer jackscrew failure turned a routine flight into a catastrophe. Learn about the systemic maintenance failures and falsified records that led to the tragic crash, and how it reshaped airline safety regulations. Chapters: 00:00 Tail Stops Responding 00:14 The Hidden Failure 00:30 Desperate Measures 00:46 The Paper Trail 01:02 Physics Wins 01:18 Redundancy Principle 01:34 The Real Cause
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