The cockpit voice recorder from the downed Alaska Airlines Flight 261. 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 . By ABC News. Capt. But so far, the controls in the MD-80s tail have become suspect in the accident. Aviation officials have released more details about the final moments of Alaska Airlines Flight 261, which crashed Monday off the coast of California. THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. 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 Pacific Ocean last January. Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2000]. Flight 261 was a scheduled service from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to Seattle, with a stop in San Francisco. The airplane descended, but the crew was able to arrest the descent. They were bused from Los Angeles to a private memorial service on the beach where the flight -- near where the flight went down. 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. "Whatever we did is no good," Tansky told Thompson. 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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 . The Department of Defense provides the military forces needed to deter war and ensure our nation's security. The CSMU is a large cylinder that bolts onto the flat portion of . MARI INGRAM, EMILY'S MOTHER: It was such a close call. Investigators later uncove. "Are we flying?" 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. No stall warning was heard during this event.". "Tragically, they were dealing with something no MD-80 pilot had ever experienced: a catastrophic failure of the stabilizer jackscrew," said Kevin Finan, Alaska's vice president of flight operations. On January 31, 2000, the aircraft operating the route, a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 . visibility eight. 10 April 2010 - Polish Air Force. 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.". We are in vertical dive, Thompson says. ", In a statement yesterday, an Alaska official said the two pilots "displayed the utmost professionalism.". She is now too distraught to talk. Twelve minutes before the crash, the pilots are in a crisis situation. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com. Thompson tells air traffic controllers there is a glitch in the stabilizer and the plane is in a full nose-dive. INGRAM: There's just no way to describe that they're not going to be here. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. Alaska Airlines is the nation's 10th largest carrier and a subsidiary of Seattle-based Alaska Air Group. one two thousand scattered. Whatever we did is no good. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- "We're in much worse shape now," the captain of Alaskan Airlines Flight 261 said about nine minutes before losing a battle to keep the plane in the air on January 31, a transcript issued Wednesday showed. But the transcript paints a picture of two determined veterans in the cockpit who began facing the problem with mild profanity and later seemed to be cool, if not precisely calm, as the situation worsened. ValuJet Airlines Flight 592 was a regularly scheduled flight from Miami International Airport to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.On May 11, 1996, the ValuJet Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-9 operating the route crashed into the Everglades about 10 minutes after taking off from Miami as a result of a fire in the cargo compartment caused by mislabeled and improperly stored . Date Flight Number Aircraft Description; 26 Feb 2021 World Airways Flight 30H DC-10 . and we generally need a block altitude.1616:45 LAX-CTR2 ok and just um I tell you what do that for now sir, and contact L A center on one three five point five they'll have further uhh instructions for you sir.1616:56.9 RDO-2 ok thirty five five say the altimeter setting?1616:59 LAX-CTR2 the L A altimeter is three zero one eight.1617:01 CAM-1 I need everything picked up---1617:02 RDO-2 thank you.1617:02 CAM-1 ---and everybody strapped down---1617:04 CAM-3 ok.1617:04 CAM-1 ---cause I'm gonna unload the airplane and see if we can---1617:06 CAM-3 ok.1617:07 CAM-1 ---we can regain control of it that way.1617:09 CAM-3 ok we had like a big bang back there---1617:11 CAM-1 yea I heard it---1617:12 CAM-3 ok.1617:12 CAM-1 ---the stab trim I think it---1617:13 CAM-2 you heard it in the back?1617:13 CAM-3 yea.1617:14 CAM-2 yea.1617:15 CAM-3 so---1617:15 CAM-1 I think the stab trim thing is broke---1617:17 CAM-3 ---I didn't wanna call you guys but---1617:18 CAM-1 no no that's good.1617:20 CAM-3 ---that girl, they're like you better go up there---1617:21 CAM-1 I need you everybody strapped in now, dear.1617:22 CAM-3 ---and tell them.1617:23 CAM-3 ok.1617:24 CAM-1 cause I'm gonna I'm going to release the back pressure and see if I can get it back.1617:30 CAM [sound similar to cockpit door operating]1617:33 CAM-2 three zero one eight.1617:37 CAM-1 I'll get it here.1617:40 CAM-2 I don't think you want any more speedbrakes do you?1617:42 CAM-1 uhh no. The two pilots trade instructions for working the controls but the effort is in vain as the plane takes a final dive from 18,000 feet. 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. During that period, the flight attendants would have ensured that every passenger was in his seat with his belt fastened, prepared for an emergency landing. '', ''And I'd like to do that out here over the bay, if I may. the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder. Snapshots of whats happening in the Defense Department. 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. Transcript of a Fairchild A100A cockpit voice recorder (CVR / Black Box), s/n 62892,installed on Boeing MD-83, Registration N963AS. 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. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. ", - "Observation No. WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: The painstaking probe into what went wrong with Alaska Airlines Flight 261 tops our look at "THE WORLD TODAY." The search for the aircraft's flight data recorder continues. Dec. 13, 2000. The plane plunged 7,000 feet in about a minute. 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. An Alaska Airlines pilot, involved in the investigation of the horrific crash of Alaska Flight 261, has listened to the cockpit voice recorder from the downed plane and he reported that for the last 9 minutes of the flight, the wife of the pastor from Monroe, WA, can be heard sharing the Gospel with the passengers over the plane's intercom system. CARL ROCHELLE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The cockpit voice recorder found Wednesday is in Washington and is already yielding valuable information. and parallel localizerapproaches are in progress between Los Angeles international and Hawthorne airports. "Ah here we go," Thompson says just at the end of the recording. No G's (no feel of gravity). Witnesses saw Alaska airliner nosedive. But early Thursday the Kellie Chouest, the same ship that found the cockpit voice recorder, recovered the flight data recorder. 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. # me.1609:24 CAM-2 what are you doin?1609:25 CAM-1 I it clicked off---1609:25.4 CAWS [sound of chime] Altitude1609:26 CAM-1 ---it * got worse ok.1609:30 CAM [sound similar to airframe vibration begins]1609:31 CAM-1 you're stalled.1609:32 CAM [sound similar to airframe vibration becomes louder]1609:33 CAM-1 no no you gotta release it ya gotta release it.1609:34 CAM [sound of click]1609:34 CAM [sound similar to airframe vibration ends]1609:42.4 CAM-1 lets * speedbrake.1609:46 CAM-1 gimme a high pressure pumps.1609:52 CAM-2 ok.1609:52 CAM-1 help me back help me back.1609:54 CAM-2 ok.1609:55 RDO-1 center Alaska two sixty one we are uh in a dive here.1610:01.6 RDO-1 and I've lost control, vertical pitch.1610:01.9 CAWS [sound of clacker] Overspeed. The first, the cockpit . They meant a lot to my family and to me, and I loved Miles and I loved the baby. upon receipt of your ATC clearance read back only your callsign and transponder code unless you have a question. . The 31-minute recording begins with Capt. The airliner bound from Mexico to San Francisco went out of control and plunged into the Pacific Ocean near Los Angeles on Jan. 31, killing all 88 aboard. A transcript was released today by the National Transportation Safety Board as it opened four days of hearings here on the crash. The captain then radioed Alaska mechanics in Los Angeles, asking whether there were any "hidden circuit breakers" that would solve the stabilizer problem. wind two three zero at eight. Don't do that again.'' which had departed from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, crashed 10 minutes after the crew thought it had regained control of a jammed horizontal stabilizer. 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. The MV Kellie Chouest is a Military Sealift Command Submarine Support Ship. Flight 261 was operating as a scheduled international passenger flight under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 121 from Lic Gustavo Diaz Ordaz International Airport, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Seattle, Washington, with an intermediate stop planned at San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, California. 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. 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.