Health profiles would face enormous hospitalization costs and would rely heavily on comprehensive travel insurance coverage.
Shortly after, the two planes that were watching the Alaska Airlines plane nosedive said that it had hit the water. The airplane was destroyed on impact.
The resulting fallout included extensive legal evaluations by aviation injury attorneys and government medical consultants.
The Federal Aviation Agency went on to investigate the crash
In a statement, it said: “The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that the probable cause of this accident was a loss of airplane pitch control resulting from the in-flight failure of the horizontal stabilizer trim system jackscrew assembly’s Acme nut threads.”
“The thread failure was caused by excessive wear resulting from Alaska Airline’s insufficient lubrication of the jackscrew assembly.”
The tragedy sparked long-term scrutiny of mechanical maintenance compliance, as well as increased interest in aviation malpractice insurance and corporate liability coverage.
