DAVIS: Emily and her mom are glad to have one another as they grieve for the lives lost on Flight 261. Accident; Date: January 31, 2000 () Summary: Loss of control caused by Jackscrew failure due to improper maintenance. Northwest Airlines Flight 255 - Wikipedia A few months after the tragedy, Jeff told an Associated Press reporter that his mother would have been "standing in the aisle of the struggling jet, preaching and helping frightened people find God," while his father would have "been writing a note" to his two children (Jeff and 16-year-old sister Jenny) and his daughter-in-law (Jeff's wife). Whatever we did is no good. The plane needed to descend to about 10,000 feet, the pilot said, to ''make sure I can control the jet. That's where we're intending to go. INGRAM: I just want it to be know that Claire is their mother and she loved them, she loved them. The flight crew advise controllers they need time toreconfigure the plane to land but want to make sure they cancontrol the plane. um we'll see you at the gate.1613:20 CAM-2 did it happen went in reverse? NPR's Mary Ann Akers reports from the crash investigation headquarters. '', ''And I'd like to do that out here over the bay, if I may. If it jams in any particular position it can cause the plane to be difficult to recover. One second before the plane hit the water off the Southern California coast Jan. 31 at three times the force of gravity, killing all 88 people aboard, Thompson said his last words to Tansky, 57, of Alameda: The transcript of the cockpit voice recorder was among reams of information released yesterday by the National Transportation Safety Board as it opened a four-day hearing into the crash. 31 January 2000 - Alaska Airlines 261. She so easily could have been on that plane and I'm so grateful that she wasn't. Reuters. 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. 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. two two five zero zulu. We believe, from the cockpit voice recorder, that in this case the elevator trim had jammed nose down, the stabilizer trim jammed nose down and that's what caused the plane to get out of control. "Ah here we go," Thompson says just at the end of the recording. "That's the way they were," he said. After the crew heard a "big bang" from the back of the plane, Thompson told a flight attendant, "I need you, everybody strapped in, dear.". Thompson, 53, of Redlands told Tansky such pressure by the dispatcher "just drives me nuts," according to the transcript. ''Got to get it over again -- at least upside down we're flying,'' the captain, Ted Thompson, said.
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