an md-80 leaves mexico for san fransisco for alaska airlines when they have problems with the horizonal stabillizer and try and fix it with the controls only making it worse they want to divert to lax but the airline says no due to the flow but they try anyway and head over water to fix the problem but eventually the plane loses control completly and nose dives into the ocean killing all 88 people on board. the cause was too long between repairs and falty maitence which a whistle blower had reported to the faa and lost his job as a result and the plane only needed to make it two more mounths to the fix when the crash happened. the fault was in the tail with the horizonal stabilizer.
next time an a330 breaks records without fuel.
Harrison’s world 