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Date: 1 Feb 2000 00:50:58 -0500
From: Steve Wingate 
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Subject: SNET: Weather Anomaly At Alaska Airlines Crash Site?


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I compiled a GOES-10 satellite image animation around the time of the 
crash, at 00:30 UT when the accident occurred. You may notice a weather 
anomaly coming from the west, south of Vandenberg AFB. The crash 
occurred just east of the three islands, west of Point Mugu.

http://www.anomalous-images.com/weather/goes10_cca_013100.gif

Note the triangle formation that seems to form at the time of the accident 
just North of the larger island. I doubled the display time of the image at 
00:00 UT because *the image immediately preceeding the crash, at 00:15 
UT was missing, the only image in the series that was missing*. I guess 
that was just a coincidence...

Was this a weather modification experiment based at Vandenberg AFB?

Regards,
Steve


Alaska Airlines jet crashes off California coast; 88 aboard 

 Copyright © 2000 Nando Media
 Copyright © 2000 APonline

By JEFF WILSON 

OXNARD, Calif. (February 1, 2000 12:03 a.m. EST 
http://www.nandotimes.com) - An Alaska Airlines jet with 88 people aboard 
plummeted into the Pacific Ocean on Monday after its pilot reported 
mechanical problems and was diverted to Los Angeles for an emergency 
landing. Several bodies were recovered from the chilly water, but there was 
no sign of survivors hours after the crash.  

Flight 261, heading from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to San Francisco and 
later to Seattle, went down at 4:36 p.m. PST, the airline said.  

A large field of debris rolled in big swells about eight miles offshore as 
aircraft and small boats converged on the site just before sunset. Hours 
later, the high-power lights of commercial squid boats illuminated the 
darkness as a cutter and small boats continued the search.  

Several bodies were found, Coast Guard Lt. Chuck Diorio said, but he 
could not give a specific number.  

"Every resource is out there to find people," said Coast Guard Capt. 
George Wright. "We're actively searching for survivors. ... In 58-degree 
water temperature, people can survive. We're not going to quit until we're 
positive there's absolutely no chance."  

Alaska Airlines spokesman Jack Evans said the plane was carrying 83 
passengers and five crew members.  

The plane was an MD-83, part of the MD-80 series aircraft built by 
McDonnell Douglas, now part of Boeing, said John Thom, a spokesman for 
Boeing's Douglas aircraft unit. The plane that crashed had been delivered 
to Alaska Airlines in 1992, Thom said.  

The airline said the pilot reported having problems with the "stabilizer trim" 
and asked to be diverted shortly before the plane crashed. "Radar 
indicates it fell from 17,000 feet and then was lost from radar," San 
Francisco airport spokesman Ron Wilson told KRON-TV.  

On the MD-80 series airplanes, the horizontal stabilizer looks like a small 
wing mounted on top of the tail. The stabilizer, which includes panels that 
pitch the nose up and down, is brought into balance, or "trimmed," from the 
cockpit.  

If a plane lost its horizontal stabilizer, it would have no means to keep the 
nose pointed at the proper angle up or down, and the plane would begin an 
uncontrollable dive.  

A source with close knowledge of the investigation, speaking on condition 
of anonymity, said the flight was normal and stable until the crew reported 
control problems. Radar showed the plane plunging toward the ocean 
shortly afterward.  

Evans said the plane had no previous stabilizer problems, and FAA 
spokesman John Clabes said it had never been in an accident.  

Evans also said the plane was serviced on Sunday, went through a low-
level maintenance check on Jan. 11 and had a more thorough routine 
check last January. It was unclear what Sunday's service entailed.  

Alaska Airlines, which has a distinctive image of an Eskimo painted on the 
tails of its planes, has an excellent safety record. It serves more than 40 
cities in Alaska, Canada, Mexico and five Western states.  

The National Transportation Safety Board was assembling a team of 
investigators in Washington, D.C., and planned to send them to the crash 
site, spokesman Pat Cariseo said. Gov. Gray Davis said he had ordered 
the California National Guard to offer whatever help is needed.  

The weather was clear at the crash site, where the water is between 300 
and 750 feet deep, said Coast Guard Cmdr. Jim McPherson.  

On Sunday, a Kenya Airways flight crashed into the Atlantic Ocean shortly 
after take off from Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The Airbus 310 carried 10 crew 
members and 169 passengers. At least 10 people survived.  

Last Oct. 31, EgyptAir Flight 990 plummeted into the ocean 60 miles south 
of the Massachusetts island of Nantucket. All 217 people aboard the 
Boeing 767 were killed.  

The most recent fatal crash in the United States involving an MD-80 series 
jet was last summer's American Airlines accident in Little Rock, Ark. 
Eleven people were killed and 110 injured when an MD-82 landed in high 
wind and heavy rain, ran off the runway, broke apart and caught fire.  

The MD-80 is a twin-jet version of the more widely known DC-9, with a 
single aisle and an engine on each side of the tail. It went into service in 
1980 and has had at least five variations that offer different ranges and 
seating capacities.  

Alaska Airlines, based in Seattle, operates several flights from Puerto 
Vallarta, a resort on Mexico's Pacific coast, to the U.S.  

The airline had two fatal accidents in the 1970s, both in Alaska, according 
to Airsafe.com, a Web site that tracks plane crashes.  

In 1971, an Alaska Airlines Boeing 727-100 approaching Juneau crashed 
into a mountain slope after the crew had received misleading navigational 
information. All 104 passengers and seven crew members and were killed. 
 

In 1976, one passenger was killed when a 727 overran the runway after 
landing in Ketchikan.  

San Francisco airport officials offered to help friends and families of the 
victims Monday night, Wilson said.  

"Whatever they want us to do," he said. "We'll put them up for the night. 
We'll feed them. We'll console them. We'll bring to them whatever they 
desire."  

Associated Press Writer Glen Johnson contributed to this report.  

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Steve Wingate

California Director
SKYWATCH INTERNATIONAL

Anomalous Images and UFO Files
http://www.anomalous-images.com

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