Thanks for the reply. When we watched this thing play out on the tarmac I had no idea what we were seeing might have rarely been done before. The aircraft that got jump-started had been there for several days which leads me to believe everything else they tried hadn't worked, or at least it took that long to get enough parts (and the tube?) delivered.
One of my favorite/least favorite Alaska Airlines memories was coming in for a landing in Juneau, nothing unusual there, but something about the weather caused the flight to take an unusual approach. I was seated in an aisle seat and had just dozed off to sleep and then an older woman on the other side of the aisle grabbed my arm and shoulder and started shaking me and screamed, "WE'RE GOING TO HIT THE MOUNTAIN!" Holy shit... I looked out the window and for a full second of being half-awake it DID seem like we were really close to the mountain. But by then I could tell we were turning away from it, not towards it.
I will never know if she was punking me or not, but the worst Alaska Airlines crash, in terms of fatalities, was Alaska Airlines Flight 1866. It occurred on September 4, 1971, when a Boeing 727-100 flying from Anchorage to Seattle crashed into a mountain near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board.
One of my favorite/least favorite Alaska Airlines memories was coming in for a landing in Juneau, nothing unusual there, but something about the weather caused the flight to take an unusual approach. I was seated in an aisle seat and had just dozed off to sleep and then an older woman on the other side of the aisle grabbed my arm and shoulder and started shaking me and screamed, "WE'RE GOING TO HIT THE MOUNTAIN!" Holy shit... I looked out the window and for a full second of being half-awake it DID seem like we were really close to the mountain. But by then I could tell we were turning away from it, not towards it.
I will never know if she was punking me or not, but the worst Alaska Airlines crash, in terms of fatalities, was Alaska Airlines Flight 1866. It occurred on September 4, 1971, when a Boeing 727-100 flying from Anchorage to Seattle crashed into a mountain near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board.