Pacific Plunge

S17 E5: Fifteen minutes after taking off from Puerto Vallarta for San Francisco, the pilots of an MD-83 realize something is very wrong with their plane. They're struggling to keep the nose up due to a jammed stabilizer and must divert the flight to Los Angeles. Unfortunately, they never make it. Witness the terrifying final moments of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 as it flips over before nosediving into the Pacific, killing all 88 people on board. Then follow investigators as they uncover a critical maintenance issue that has deadly implications.