Transcript of cockpit voice recording from Alaska Airlines Flight 261 is released by National Transportation Safety Board as it opens hearings on Jan 31 crash; tape reveals desperate efforts of . -- 4:11:44 -- Thompson: Yeah, no, it went down, it went to full nose down. An Alaska dispatcher in Seattle initially suggested to the crew that they would encounter delays returning to the air if they diverted as requested to Los Angeles for an emergency landing, according to the transcript. MORET: Also today, Alaska Airlines announced it is officially retiring flight number 261. Ted Thompson and first officer Bill Tansky faced an escalating crisis controlling the MD-83 twinjet's horizontal stabilizer mounted on the tail, with Thompson remarking after hearing a big bang: "I think the stab trim thing is broke.". . They were her whole life. ", - "Observation No. Dec. 13, 2000. That's where we're intending to go. A preliminary report by the Naval Air Warfare Center said grease from the accident plane's jackscrew showed a mixture of Aeroshell Grease 33 and Mobil Grease 28. Alaska Airlines Flight 261: Cockpit Voice Recorder Reveals Crew Fighting Problem With Stabilizer Trim; Relatives Mourn Loss of Victims Aired February 3, 2000 - 8:01 p.m. Also today, a Coast Guard helicopter will scatter 88 roses into the ocean, one for each victim. Typically, the rest of the recorders' chassis and inner components are mangled. two two five zero zulu. we're flyin we're flyin tell 'em what we're doin.1620:33 CAM-2 oh yea let me get *1620:35 CAM-1 *1620:38 CAM-1 gotta get it over again at least upside down we're flyin.1620:40.6 PA [sound similar to CVR startup tone]1620:42 CAM-? 26 May 2000 (p. B1). A transcript of the cockpit voice recorder showed that the pilots . Prior to that he worked for the San Francisco Chronicle for more than a decade. Brunette beauty maddy oreilly wants to be a model when she gets out. Claim: The cockpit recorder from Alaska Airlines Flight 261 revealed a pastor's wife led passengers in prayer just before the plane dived into the Pacific Ocean. Cockpit Voice Recorder Database. Witnesses added little today to what had already been known about the crash. Heavy, hard to do, but certainly doable. 2023 www.recordonline.com. No one survived. The transcript of the cockpit voice recorder details conversations between the pilots, an Alaska dispatcher and mechanics on the ground for the last 32 minutes of the flight. (in the background during previous transmission)1612:55 LAX-MX-1 yea two sixty one maintenance uh uh you getting full nose trim down but are you getting any you don't get no nose trim up is that correct?1613:04 RDO-1 that's affirm we went to full nose down and I'm afraid to try it again to see if we can get it to go in the other direction.1613:10 LAX-MX-1 ok well your discretion uh if you want to try it, that's ok with me if not that's fine. With just under four minutes left on the recording, a flight attendant comes to the cockpit to report "a big bang back there." but we will be going into L A X and I'd anticipate us parking there in about twenty to thirty minutes.1614:39 CAM-1 ok did the, first of all, speedbrakes. The Associated Press. Id like to do that out here over the bayif I may, Thompson says. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com. Now, in the American Airlines plane, apparently the trim did jam, but it jammed in neutral, meaning that there was no way to relieve those control pressures, but that controls were jammed. Accident; Date: January 31, 2000 () Summary: Loss of control caused by Jackscrew failure due to improper maintenance. actually.1617:46 CAM-2 he wants us to maintain seventeen.1617:51 CAM-1 ok I need help with this here.1617:52 CAM-1 slats ext lets---1617:54 CAM-2 ok slats---1617:54 CAM-1 gimme slats extend.1617:55 CAM-2 got it.1617:56.6 CAM [sound similar to slat/flap handle movement]1617:58 CAM-1 I'm test flyin now---1617:59 CAM-2 how does it feel?1618:00 CAM-1 it's wantin to pitch over more on you.1618:02 CAM-2 really?1618:03 CAM-1 yea.1618:04 CAM-2 try flaps? fifteen, eleven?1618:05 CAM-1 ahh lets go to eleven.1618:07.3 CAM [sound similar to slat/flap handle movement]1618:09 CAM-2 ok get some power on.1618:10 CAM-1 I'm at two hundred and fifty knots, so I'm lookin.1618:17 CAM-2 real hard?1618:17 CAM-1 no actually its pretty stable right here see but we got to get down to a hundred an eighty.1618:26 CAM-1 OK bring bring the flaps and slats back up for me.1618:32 CAM-2 slats too?1618:33 CAM-1 yea.1618:36.8 CAM [sound similar to slat/flap handle movement]1618:37 CAM-2 that gives us twelve thousand pounds of fuel, don't over boost them.1618:47 CAM-1 what I'm what I wanna do1618:48 CAM [sound similar to slat/flap handle movement]1618:49 CAM-1 is get the nose up and then let the nose fall through andsee if we can stab it when it's unloaded.1618:54 CAWS [sound of chime] Altitude (repeats for approximately 34 seconds)1618:56 CAM-2 you mean use this again? ABCNEWS Lisa Stark, The Associated Press, and Reuters contributed to this report. The 2 pilots, 3 cabin crewmembers, and 83 passengers on board . Jim Moret is in Los Angeles with the latest -- Jim. Site: Pacific Ocean near Anacapa Island, . All rights reserved. Get the latest DOD News products delivered to your inbox. But just over two hours out from Puerto Vallarta, the 31-minute recording starts with the pilots trouble-shooting the stabilizer problem with Alaska's maintenance base in Seattle. Safety board member John Hammerschmidt, who will chair the hearing, said the aim was to collect information to assist in the investigation. Mr. Tansky replied: ''Yeah, it is. . Investigators say the grease Alaska Airlines used to lubricate a key stabilizing mechanism in the tail section of the plane may have broken down the metal of the part, causing the fatal plunge. The plane needed to descend to about 10,000 feet, the pilot said, to ''make sure I can control the jet. MORET: Carl, review for us briefly what the stabilizer trim does and how it could effect the maneuverability of the aircraft. Your Privacy Choices (Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads). -- 4:19:54 -- Thompson: OK, we are inverted and now we gotta get it. "My adrenaline's going," the captain said, relieved. The twin-jet MD-80. The crash occurred on Jan. 31 as the crew tried an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport. The plane then leveled off. David Mikkelson founded the site now known as snopes.com back in 1994. and we currently have thirteen thousand six hundred pounds of fuel on board.1604:43 CAM-1 estimate ten thousand on landing.1604:45 RDO-2 estimating ten thousand pounds on landing.1604:53 LAX-OPS ok you said your takeoff weight was one one uhh one five one one decimal eight?1604:58 RDO-2 one three six five one one point eight.1605:05 LAX-OPS one three six five one one point eight thank you.1605:07 RDO-2 and we're currently a hundred and fifteen seven on our weight, and we'll burn another three thousand pounds.1605:19 CAM [sound of two clicks]1605:27 CAM-2 I'm back on the uh I'm off of the uh company.1606:26 CAM-1 no that's what I was expecting them to do. Experts will testify this week about the possible failure of the jackscrew, a key part of the tail stabilizer, and whether a certain type of grease used by Alaska to lubricate the part played a role in the crash. it seems to be helping.1610:51 CAM-1 # me.1610:53 CAWS [sound of chime] Altitude1610:55 CAM-1 ok it really wants to pitch down.1610:58 CAM-2 ok.1610:59 CAM-1 don't mess with that.1611:04 CAM-2 I agree with you.1611:04 LAX-CTR1 Alaska two sixty one say your condition.1611:06.6 RDO-1 two sixty one we are at twenty four thousand feet, kinda stabilized.1611:10 RDO-1 we're slowing here, and uh, we're gonna uh.1611:15 RDO-1 do a little troubleshooting, can you gimme a block between uh, twenty and twenty five?1611:21 LAX-CTR1 Alaska two sixty one maintain block altitude flight level two zero zero through flight level two five zero.1611:27 RDO-1 Alaska two sixty one we'll take that block we'll be monitor'n the freq.1611:31 CAM-2 you have the airplane let me just try it.1611:33 CAM-1 ok.1611:33 CAM-2 uh how hard is it?1611:33 CAM-1 I don't know my adrenaline's goin it was really tough there for a while.1611:38 CAM-2 yea it is.1611:39 CAM-1 ok.1611:43 CAM-2 whatever we did is no good, don't do that again.1611:44 CAM-1 yea, no it went down it went to full nose down.1611:48 CAM-2 uh it's a lot worse than it was?1611:50 CAM-1 yea yea we're in much worse shape now.1611:59 CAM-1 I think its at the stop, full stop and I'm thinking, we can- can it go any worse but it probably can but when we slowed down, lets slow it lets get down to two hundred knots and see what happens.1612:16 CAM-2 ok?1612:16 CAM [sound of click]1612:17 CAM-2 we have to put the slats out and everything flaps and slats.1612:20 CAM-1 yea well we'll wait ok you got it for a second?1612:23 CAM-2 yea.1612:25.3 RDO-1 maintenance two sixty one are you on?1612:30 LAX-MX-2 yea two sixty one this is maintenance.1612:32.0 RDO-1 ok we did---1612:33.2 RDO-1 ---we did both the pickle switch and the suitcase handles and it ran away full nose trim down.1612:39 LAX-MX-2 oh it ran away trim down.1612:42 RDO-1 and now we're in a * pinch so we're holding uh we're worse than we were.1612:50 LAX-MX-2 ok uh geez.1612:52 LAX-MX-1 you want me to talk to em? The Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) was recovered on late Wednesday, February 2, 2000. temperature one six dewpoint one one. The captain then radioed Alaska mechanics in Los Angeles, asking whether there were any "hidden circuit breakers" that would solve the stabilizer problem. 1995 - 2023 by Snopes Media Group Inc. Soon the crew requests a diversion to Los Angeles International Airport. The two pilots trade instructions for working the controlsbut the effort is in vain as the plane takes a final dive from18,000 feet. From Alaska Airlines Flight 261. ''Yeah, no, it went down, it went to full nose down,'' the captain said. The cockpit voice recorder from the downed Alaska Airlines Flight 261 is held by the robotic arm of the remotely piloted vehicle SCORPIO on the deck of the MV Kellie Chouest off the coast of Ventura County, Calif., on Feb. 2, 2000. Dec. 13, 2000 -- A transcript of the cockpit voice recorder of doomed Alaska Airlines Flight261 shows that the pilots struggled to get the plane upright before it crashed into the . Here We GoWith just under four minutes left on the recording, aflight attendant comes to the cockpit to report a big bangback there. Thompson says he heard it too. I need to get down about ten, change my configuration, make sure I can control the jet and I'd like to do that out here over the bay if I may.1616:07 LAX-CTR2 ok Alaska two sixty one roger that standby here.1616:11 CAM-2 lets do it at this altitude instead---1616:11 CAM-1 what?1616:12 CAM-2 ---of goin to ten lets do it at this altitude.1616:14 CAM-1 cause the airflow's that much difference down at ten this air's thin enough that that you know what I'm sayin?1616:20 CAM-2 yea uh I'll tell em to uh---1616:22 CAM-1 I just made a PA to everyone to get everybody---1616:24 CAM-2 ok.1616:26 CAM-1 ---down you might call the flight attendants.1616:27 CAM [sound similar to cockpit door operating]1616:32 CAM-3 I was just comin up this way.1616:32 LAX-CTR2 Alaska two sixty one fly a heading of two eight zero and descend and maintain one seven thousand.1616:34 CAM-2 uhh.1616:36 CAM [sound similar to cockpit door operating]1616:39.0 RDO-1 two eight zero and one seven seventeen thousand Alaska two sixty one. JIM MORET, CNN ANCHOR: Wolf, investigators say an initial check of the plane's cockpit voice recorder reveals the crew struggling to keep the MD-83 flying. Noting the presence of families of some crash victims in the audience, NTSB member John Hammerschmidt opened the session bySaying, I want to assure them that the safety board will pursueevery lead toward an ultimate solution.. Database; Description; Contact Search the site. Much of the hearing will focus on the design and maintenance of the jackscrew mechanism that controls the stabilizer, used to control the plane's nose-up or nose-down attitude. simultaneous ILS approaches in progress runway two four right and two five left or vector for visual approach will be provided. On January 31, 2000, about 1621 Pacific standard time, Alaska Airlines, Inc.,flight 261, a McDonnell Douglas MD-83, N963AS, crashed into the Pacific Ocean about2.7 miles north of Anacapa Island, California. I remember this is complicated, yea well, better start that now cause we are comin to you.1559:26 LAX-OPS copy.1559:29 CAM-1 we'll call em back over as we get closer to Catalina.1559:34 CAM-2 as we get what?1559:34 CAM-1 closer to L A she's got to get landing rights.1559:37 CAM-2 were ninety four miles from L A now.1559:38 CAM-1 oh ok. you wanna listen to the ATIS you can.1559:42 CAM-2 in fact I switched it once already just kinda late.1559:44 CAM-1 you got the jet.1559:44 CAM-2 I got it.1559:50 ATIS charlie five and charlie six is restricted * taxiway charlie five is restricted to MD eleven and smaller. At least upside down we were flyin'. DAVIS: The two families, the Clemetsons (ph) and the Pearsons, close friends, were on the flight with their six children: Blake, Cori (ph), Miles, Spencer, Rachel and Grace. "Ah here we go," Thompson says just at the end of the recording. 1: The first conversations recorded on the CVR (cockpit voice recorder) involve communications between the flight crew and Alaska Airlines maintenance facility personnel in Seattle regarding the stabilizer trim system of the aircraft. "Yeah, we're in much worse shape now," the captain replied. Alaska Airlines Flight 261 finished seating Smith and 82 other men, women and children just before 1:30 p.m. Monday, and within minutes, the crew of five had the big plane soaring over the tile . The MV Kellie Chouest is a Military Sealift Command Submarine Support Ship. According to the National Transportation Safety Board, all that can be heard on the cockpit voice recorder tape is the pilots discussing stabilizer problems with air traffic control and Alaska Air maintenance personnel, a loud noise around the time the plane lost stabilizer control (and the voice of a flight attendant notifying the crew of the sound), and a second loud bang a minute before the plane plunged into the ocean. All rights reserved. The cockpit voice recorder from the downed Alaska Airlines Flight 261 is held by the robotic arm of the remotely piloted vehicle SCORPIO on the deck of the MV Kellie Chouest off the coast of Ventura County, Calif., on Feb. 2, 2000. . This literal truthfulness of this is not supported by any known evidence. Thompson, 53, of Redlands told Tansky such pressure by the dispatcher "just drives me nuts," according to the transcript. duh.1606:47 CAM-2 so our actually our landing speed will be one forty eight plus some additive right?1607:06 CAM-1 lets guess lets guess one twelve.1607:10 CAM-2 ok.1607:10 CAM-1 one forty six plus I get a minus two, worst case twenty four knots fifty sixty seventy *.1607:33 LAX-OPS Alaska two sixty one from operations can you give us your tail number?1607:38 RDO-1 uh two sixty one, it was ship number nine six three.1607:43 LAX-OPS copy that two uh your aircraft number is nine six three.1607:47 RDO-1 affirmative thank you.1607:51 LAX-MX-1 and two sixty one maintenance.1607:53 RDO-1 two sixty one go.1607:54 LAX-MX-1 yea are you guys with the uh, horizontal situation?1607:58 RDO-1 affirmative.1607:59 LAX-MX-1 yea did you try the suitcase handles and the pickle switches right?1608:03 RDO-1 yea we tried everything together, uh.1608:08 RDO-1 we've run just about everything if you've got any hidden circuit breakers we'd love to know about 'em.1608:14 LAX-MX-1 I'm off I'll look at the uh circuit breaker uh guide just as a double check and um yea I just wanted to know if you tried the pickle switches and the suitcase handles to see if it was movin in with any of the uh other switches other than the uh suitcase handles alone or nothing.1608:29.9 RDO-1 yea we tried just about every iteration.1608:32 LAX-MX-1 and alternate's inop too huh?1608:35.1 RDO-1 yup its just it appears to be jammed the uh the whole thing, it spikes out when we use the primary, we get AC load that tells me the motor's tryin to run but the brake won't move it. Alaska Airlines Flight 261 was a flight from Licenciado Gustavo Daz Ordaz International Airport in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle, Washington, United States, with an intermediate stop at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, California. Thompson says he heard it too. "We are the national archives of what not to do," safety board chairman Jim Hall told The Chronicle. Fucking hard latinas. Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2000]. She is now too distraught to talk. The captain uttered two mild profanities and then pleaded to Tansky, "Help me back, help me back," referring to pulling back on the yoke. Transcripts of Doomed Alaska Flight / Voices of Doom on Alaska Air / Transcripts depict pilots' frantic struggle in final minutes of Flight 261, Search team member Eric Hermann pulled in a piece of Flight 261's fuselage after the Alaska Airlines plane crashed on Jan. 31. Alaska Airlines news reports about 261 ; Cockpit voice recorder transcript and accident summary; Assigned to lead the "Systems Group" for the NTSB go-team, I needed to . T wenty years ago this month I sat quietly in the NTSB's Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) Laboratory listening to the final 31 minutes of Alaska Airlines flight 261, a McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) MD-83 airplane that had crashed off the coast of Ventura, California. The pilots regained control of the plane after it suddenly dropped 23,700 feet in ninety seconds and were still attempting to troubleshoot the problem when the plane dropped into the ocean about 12 minutes later. ''Got to get it over again -- at least upside down we're flying,'' the captain, Ted Thompson, said. Safety board investigators are concerned Alaska Airlines may not have lubricated the jackscrew assembly adequately, mixing two incompatible greases together. ok lets head for L A.1619:21.1 CAM [sound of faint thump]1619:24 CAM-2 you feel that?1619:25 CAM-1 yea.1619:29 CAM-1 ok gimme sl--- see, this is a bitch.1619:31 CAM-2 is it?1619:31 CAM-1 yea.1619:32.8 CAM [sound of two clicks similar to slat/flap handle movement]1619:36 CAM-? ceiling two zero thousand overcast. They lost several friends in the crash, but came frighteningly close to losing a child. The crew acknowledged that they had heard it too. "The Bright Shining Lie of Flight 261." Cockpit Voice Recorder Transcript of Alaska Airlines 261 MD-83 that crashed into the sea after developing stabilizer problems. THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. We're burning candles kind of around the clock. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Alaska airlines flight 261 cockpit voice recorder. The crew recovered from this condition in approximately one-and-one-half minutes. Also today, families of the victims are visiting the crash site. Transcript of a Fairchild A100A cockpit voice recorder (CVR / Black Box), s/n 62892,installed on Boeing MD-83, Registration N963AS. - "Observation No. He covers breaking news, crime, courts and aviation. wind two three zero at eight. As the plane picked up speed in the dive, the crew deployed the speed brakes, panels on the wings used for landing, as they used other controls to stabilize the jet. Sources: The cockpit voice recorder, more commonly called a black box, was located and brought aboard the ship following an . read back all runway hold short instructions. "I know them so well. Thompson tells air traffic controllers there is a glitch in the stabilizer and the plane is in a full nose-dive. The flight crew advise controllers they need time toreconfigure the plane to land but want to make sure they cancontrol the plane. The mission of the Department of Defense is to provide a lethal Joint Force to defend the security of our country and sustain American influence abroad. I mean it was just it was I mean he had all the reasons to do it, I stated concern about flying overflying a suitable airport---1601:15 CAM-2 yea.1601:16 CAM-1 ---but I was listening, then when he gives me the wind, its it's the wind was a ninety degree cross at ten knots. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? "This is an extremely important investigation for all of us. But so far, the controls in the MD-80s tail have become suspect in the accident. "Whatever we did is no good," Tansky told Thompson. The National Transportation Safety Board says an initial audition of the cockpit voice recorder revealed that as the pilots struggled to control stabilizer problems, the jet turned upside down . Snopes and the Snopes.com logo are registered service marks of Snopes.com. Expand Search. The crew could manually control the airplane with the control wheels in their hands. PORT HUENEME, Calif. The terrified pilots aboard Alaska Airlines Flight 261 were caught on tape desperately trying to right the jet after it flipped over and plummeted toward certain doom, PORT HUENEME, Calif., Feb. 3 -- Eyewitnesses to the crash of Alaska Airlines flight 261 have told investigators that they saw the plane spin into a nosedive . Most wore pins with photos of those who were killed. The safety board will rule on a probable cause of the crash next year. The cockpit voice recorder, more commonly called a black box, was located and brought aboard the ship following an 84-minute search by SCORPIO, a tethered unmanned work vehicle from the Navy's Deep Submergence Unit Unmanned Vehicle Detachment. No G's (no feel of gravity). -- 4:20:25 -- Thompson: Are we flyin'? Los Angeles Times. They also discussed moving the horizontal tail into position by raising the nose, then letting it drop. Alaska Airlines Flight 261 was an international passenger flight from Puerto Vallarta to a stopover in San Francisco International Airport, to its destination in Seattle-Tacoma International Airport which suffered a serious mechanical failure on January 31, 2000, while flying over the Pacific Ocean, 4.3 km north of Anacapa Island in California.The two pilots, three flight attendants and the . As the captain spoke, the plane was accelerating downward so fast that the two pilots and 86 other people on board were pressed upward -- in this case, into their seats, because the plane was upside down -- at forces that reached three times the normal force of gravity. They meant a lot to my family and to me, and I loved Miles and I loved the baby. This material may not be reproduced without permission. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. I don't think we should if it can fly, its like---1619:01 CAM-1 it's on the stop now, its on the stop.1619:04 CAM-2 well not according to that its not.1619:07 CAM-2 the trim might be, and then it might be uh, if something's popped back there---1619:11 CAM-1 yea.1619:11 CAM-2 ---it might be * mechanical damage too.1619:14 CAM-2 I think if it's controllable, we oughta just try to land it---1619:16 CAM-1 you think so? The Database. More information about the crash:https://bit.ly/3aENWyx (final report)https://bit.ly/3ruWZZO (wiki) Instagram/Business enquiries:mailtecnat@gmail.comhttp. The cockpit voice recorder from the downed Alaska Airlines Flight 261 is held by the robotic arm of the remotely piloted vehicle SCORPIO on the deck of the MV Kellie Chouest off the coast of . He studied premed at UC Berkeley before graduating with a psychology major and was a reporter and editor at the Daily Californian student newspaper on campus. The airplane descended, but the crew was able to arrest the descent. -- 4:19:49 -- Thompson: Push and roll, push and roll. No passenger-led prayer appears on the tape. 12 March 2018 - US-Bangla Airlines 211. which had departed from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, crashed 10 minutes after the crew thought it had regained control of a jammed horizontal stabilizer. Those words came about six minutes before the crash. The cause of that final plunge was failure of the stabilizer jackscrew threads caused by inadequate lubrication and maintenance/inspection, according to the NTSB's report on the crash, thus rather than there being "no good explanation" for how the plane was able to stay up until then; a more accurate statement would be to say that "there is no good explanation why the plane suddenly dived into the sea 9 minutes later." The first, the cockpit . The sole survivor was a 4-year-old girl who sustained serious injuries. Alaska Airlines Flight 261; N963AS, the Alaska Airlines MD-83 aircraft involved in the accident seen in 1992. (CSMUs) of the flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders. upon receipt of your ATC clearance read back only your callsign and transponder code unless you have a question. Copyright ROCHELLE: Key among the pieces of wreckage are the tail assembly containing the stabilizer trim assembly and the cockpit area where the switches are -- that are activating it are located. The families of the pilots who died aboard Alaska Airlines Flight 261 filed a lawsuit yesterday in federal court in San . ''Yeah, yeah, we're in much worse shape now,'' Captain Thompson said. On August 16, 1987 a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, operating as Northwest Airlines Flight 255, crashed shortly after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, about 8:46 pm EDT (00:46 UTC August 17), resulting in the deaths of all six crew members and 148 of the 149 passengers, along with two people on the ground. It was really tough there for a while.''. Her voice faltered when she explained why she chose to attend the hearing. PATTY DAVIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Emily Fowler is grateful to be alive. Date Flight Number Aircraft Description; 26 Feb 2021 World Airways Flight 30H DC-10 . Ethiopian Airlines 302. . I gotta tell you, when I look at it from a safety point I think that something that lowers my groundspeed makes sense.1557:16 SEA-DIS ok two sixty one that'll uh that'll mean L A X then for you um I was gonna get you if I could to call L A X with that uh info and they can probably whip out that CG for you real quick.1557:30 RDO-1 I suspect that uh that's what we'll have to do. Thompson tries to calm passengers, saying "I don't anticipate any big problems once we get a couple of sub-systems on the line.". I believe he's talking about this---1550:25 CAM-2 oh.1550:25 CAM-1 ---switch that's on the * that's on the pedestal.1550:27 CAM-2 yea okay.1550:31 CAM-1 do you see anything back there?1550:32 CAM [Sound of click]1550:33 CAM-2 uh there's *.1550:40 SEA-MX and two sixty one, maintenance.1550:42.0 RDO-1 go ahead maintenance two six one.1550:44 SEA-MX understand you're requesting uh diversion to L A for this uh discrepancy is there a specific reason you prefer L A over San Francisco?1550:45 MZT Alaska two sixty one radar service terminated contact uh Los Angeles center frequency one one nine decimal ninety five good day.1550:54.4 RDO-1 well a lotta times its windy and rainy and wet in San Francisco and uh, it seemed to me that a dry runway where the wind is usually right down the runway seemed a littlemore reasonable.1550:55.0 RDO-2 one one nine ninety five Alaska two sixty one.1551:01.2 RDO-2 say again the frequency one one nine point eh ninety five?1551:05 MZT affirm one one nine decimal ninety five.1551:09.3 RDO-2 roger.1551:09.9 SEA-MX ok and uh is this added fuel that you're gonna have in LA gonna be a complication or an advantage?1551:18.1 RDO-1 well the way I'm reading it uh heavier airplanes land faster right now I got fifteen five on board, I'm thinking to land with about twelve which is still uh an hour and forty minutes uh and those are the numbers I'm running up here.1551:20.6 RDO-2 L A Alaska two sixty one three one zero.1551:36 SEA-MX ok uh two sixty one standby for dispatch.1551:38 RDO-2 Los Angeles Alaska two sixty one three one zero.1551:40 RDO-1 OK the other thing you gotta know is that they're talking about holding and delays in San Francisco um for your maintenance facil- eh you know planning uh it uh L Aseemed like a smarter move from airworthy move.1551:42 LAX-CTR1 Alaska two sixty one L A center roger.1551:50 RDO-2 * there's two people on the frequency I'm sorry Alaska two sixty one I didn't hear your response.1551:58 LAX-CTR1 Alaska two six one squawk two zero one zero.1552:01 RDO-2 two zero one zero Alaska two sixty one.1552:02 SEA-DIS two sixty one dispatch uh current San Francisco weather one eight zero at six, nine miles, few at fifteen hundred broken twenty eight hundred overcast thirty four hundred uh if uh you want to land at L A of course for safety reasons we will do that uh wu we'll uh tell you though that if we land in LA uh we'll be looking at probably an hour to an hour and a half we have a major flow program going right now.
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