But information from the jet itself indicated that incorrect information had been received.“It’s been close to 11 1/2 years now and I’ve been through 44 or 45 accidents and I always knew in my heart what had caused each one,” NTSB inspector Wesley Cowan told the Associated Press in Juneau a month after the accident. Alaska | Air Disasters | 1971 | September | Feature; 107 aboard Alaska jet feared crashed in S. E. Boeing 727 hours overdue between Juneau, Yakutat. It was the first of many “improvements” over the next three decades.As both the NTSB and Alaska Airlines continued their investigations, events took a paranormal turn, according to Serling , a noted national aviation writer who – ironically – was the older brother of Rod Serling, the creator of the Twilight Zone television series.“Sometime after the Juneau tragedy… during the course of the investigation a letter arrived at flight operations and was turned over to Warren Metzger,” Serling wrote in 2008. Zehrung told Serling that it was a “mirror image of the Juneau accident.”In 1972, the NTSB basically closed its investigation of the crash, but Alaska Airlines investigators continued to press their work, according to Serling.After 3 years, they felt they had narrowed the cause down to Sisters Island location and an unusual weather pattern that created unusually calm conditions – mirror flat – in Lynn Canal on the Labor Day weekend the crash occurred. A 727 jet with at least 111 passengers, crashed in the Chilkat Mountains on final approach …
Several people were returning to Juneau after a successful moose hunt up north and a half dozen moose heads were part of the cargo.According to a September 5, 1971 story in the Seattle Post Intelligencer the jet was being flown by an experienced crew, Capt. In it “Captain Adams” reported that he had enlisted the help of another deceased pilot – a “Carlos” who had died when his Iberian Airlines jet had crashed into a hill near a lake. The C-12 crash happened under similar circumstances as the AK airlines crash.
The C-12 crash happened in the mid 90’s if I remember correctly, and killed the commander of the Alaska national guard and his aide’s. I understand my mother and her parents would have been in shock at this happened maybe they didn't remember what was told to them. After the crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 on Sept. 4, 1971, recovery teams stayed in touch with handheld and short-distance radios that linked them to Juneau. Yet, it had descended to approximately 2,500 feet in altitude when significantly higher mountains remained between it and Juneau.
While investigators were waiting for the weather to calm down and approximate the “glassy” conditions, the FAA settled with Alaska Airlines for $15 million and the legal case was over. "He says the fuel supply was presumed to have been exhausted about two to three hours after the plane was due to land in Juneau.A massive air and sea search is under way along Alaska's rugged coastal Panhandle.The Alaska Airlines 727 jetliner was to have landed in Juneau at 10:20 a. m. Fairbanks time.In Seattle, a spokesman for Alaska Airlines said the flight originated in Anchorage and stopped at Cordova and Yakutat. 40 Years ago, 111 died in Alaska Airlines Crash Near Juneau Company blamed faulty locator beacons, NTSB unable to come up specific crash ‘cause.’ By DAVE KIFFER September 07, 2011 Wednesday AM (SitNews) - Forty years ago on September 4, 1971, the unthinkable happened to Alaska Airlines. There were no survivors.At the time, it was the deadliest crash in U.S. Aviation history.Flight 1866 had originated in Anchorage with stops in Cordova and Yakutat. Later it was determined that the jet was also some 45 degrees off on its directional approach to the Juneau airport as well.Descending through heavy fog it hit a mountain, just above Tear Drop Lake, some eighteen miles west of Juneau, at normal descent speed. Metzger read it in disbelief, yet thought it was intriguing enough and perhaps even important enough to show to someone else, Kay Adams, the grieving widow of Captain Dick Adams.”The letter was from Mary Ann Elko, a self described spiritual medium.Elko explained that she often “transcribed” messages from her spiritual contacts in the handwriting of the deceased person and that she was merely relaying what Captain Adams had “dictated.”The letter included a “signature” from Dick Adams and Kay Adams said it matched her husband’s distinctive signature.
A special master had been appointed to sort through all the claims and determine liability. First officer, Leonard Beach of Seattle, who was at the controls when the plane crashed, had been with Alaska Airlines for five years as had flight engineer James Carlson of Seattle. “But there was a lot more.”The Spanish crash had also involved a VOR which had been located on the lake similar to the Sisters Island site. Alaska Airlines Flight 261 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz International Airport in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, to Seattle–Tacoma International Airport in Seattle, Washington, United States, with an intermediate stop at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, California.
Alaska Airlines, Flight 1866 (AS66) was a scheduled passenger flight from Anchorage (ANC), to Seattle (SEA), with intermediate stops at Cordova (CDV), Yakutat (YAK), Juneau (JNU), and Sitka (SIT).
I also was told my Aunt and husband was flying from Alaska back to Maine but the flight says Alaska to Seattle. Hannan told the NTSB hearing he had “drawn a zero.”They began their own investigation, because they felt the evidence indicated a mechanical malfunction rather than the catch-all that the NTSB uses in many crash reports; “pilot error.”To be sure, the NTSB never expressly blamed “pilot error” in the crash, but the language it used in its final report in 1973, indicated it believed the pilots could have done more to prevent the accident.“The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was a display of misleading navigational information concerning the flight’s progress along the localizer course which resulted in a premature descent below obstacle clearance altitude.
Well this site has my email. The Special Master, according to Serling, ordered new tests with “properly equipped aircraft. Serling wrote that the FAA initially poo-pooed the Alaska Airlines tests as using “Micky Mouse” electronic equipment.
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