"Ah, here we go."
— Last words
January 1, 1970
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Who: Ted Thompson, captain of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 — Note: The plane had gone into an upside-down nosedive after the jackscrew assembly failed, causing a loss in pitch control, shortly after recovering from an earlier nosedive caused by unjamming the horizontal stabilizer. The pilots had been attempting to regain control. The plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean about one second later, killing all crew and passengers.
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Who: Ted Thompson, captain of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 — Note: The plane had gone into an upside-down nosedive after the jackscrew assembly failed, causing a loss in pitch control, shortly after recovering from an earlier nosedive caused by unjamming the horizontal stabilizer. The pilots had been attempting to regain control. The plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean about one second later, killing all crew and passengers.