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Alaska Airlines Flight 261: Investigating what caused the tragedy

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The trim on the horizontal stabilizer – the rear wing of the aircraft – was not working. Then the tone indicating the movement of the horizontal stabilizer sounded. Los Angeles air traffic control handed the plane over to approach control in preparation for its arrival at LAX.

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Loose Screw May Have Led To Rob Holland Crash

AV Web

The screw was found about 10 feet from the wreckage and had red paint on it, suggesting it became jammed between the elevator and the fixed portion of the horizontal stabilizer, which was also scratched and gouged. “The airplane then porpoised twice, pitched straight up, rolled 90 to the left and descended to ground impact.”

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NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Holland Accident

Flying Magazine

According to witness statements given to the NTSB, “the airplane made a normal approach to the runway, and when it was over the end of the runway, it leveled off about 50 [feet] above the runway and flew straight down the runway for several hundred feet. The Accident Around 11:30 a.m.

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Delta Connection flight received sink rate alert before Toronto Pearson crash

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TSB Approach sequence Due to reported wind gusts as the CRJ900 approached Toronto Pearson following a flight from MinneapolisSaint Paul International Airport (MSP) the aircraft was flown at 149 knots. The aircraft was slightly below the glide slope, but on the visual segment of the approach and tracking the runway centerline.

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The Unfulfilled Promise of the Fairchild T-46

Flying Magazine

However, as the 1980s approached, so did the end of the T-37’s projected life cycle, and military leaders determined a more modern replacement was needed. Courtesy: Fairchild] The selection of twin vertical stabilizers for the T-46 is an interesting one.

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Voices from Combat: The Consolidated PB2Y Coronado Becomes a Bomber

Vintage Aviation News

A short 18 months later, on August 13, 1937, the XPB2Y-1 took to the skies for the first time, revealing plenty of room for improvement lateral instability was a major problem for the deep-hulled boat, so the single tail fin was augmented by two smaller fins on the horizontal stabilizers.

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The Fastest Warbird: Darryl Greenamyer and the RB-104 “Red Baron”

Vintage Aviation News

The tail section, minus horizontal stabilizer, came from a crashed TF-104G that was found in an Ontario, California junkyard. The horizontal stabilizer came from a wrecked F-104G. I would pick him up in the distance as he approached the lakebed, seconds later he zipped over my head. As he approached 1.5