Alaska Airlines jet forced to turn around From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: February 7, 2000 | Copyright 2000 Chicago Sun-Times. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

RENO, Nev. An Alaska Airlines MD-83 jetliner returned to Reno's airport shortly after takeoff when the pilot reported problems with the horizontal stabilizer. It was the third stabilizer problem involving that jet model within a week.

The Seattle-bound jet's problems Saturday night were similar to those discussed by pilots in the tense minutes before Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashed into the Pacific Ocean on Jan. 31. The cause of that accident, in which 88 people died, has not been d...

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