37-Year-Old Alaska Airlines Captain Found Dead In Hotel Room (2024)
Alaska Airlines Pilot 37 year old Captain Eric McRae, based in Seattle, died suddenly on Sep.23, 2023 in his hotel room during layover.
Seattle-based Alaska Airlines Captain Eric McRae was discovered dead in his New York hotel room last Saturday after he failed to meet his crew in the lobby for their return flight to Seattle.
It’s reported that McRae’s death was sudden and unexpected, and no foul play was believed to be involved in his untimely passing.
His remains are currently en route back to Seattle, where the flight is expected to be met this afternoon by his family, friends, and colleagues who are gathering to pay their respects.
Control was lost before an emergency landing could be made at Los Angeles International Airport and all 88 on board were killed. According to a transcript, published on planecrashinfo.com, the pilot's final words were: “Ah, here we go.”
The crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 was caused by a failure of the horizontal stabilizer trim system. The NTSB found that the airline extended the lubrication interval, leading to extreme wear of the jackscrew assembly and acme nut threads.
Captain Ted Thompson, aged 53, had accrued 17,750 flight hours, including over 4,000 hours on MD-80s. First Officer William “Bill” Tansky, aged 57, had a total of 8,140 flight hours, with approximately 8,060 hours as a first officer on the MD-80.
An NTSB preliminary report released last month found that four bolts designed to prevent the door plug from falling off the Boeing 737 Max 9 plane were missing before the plug blew off the flight. The NTSB will hold a two-day investigative hearing on the door plug incident in August, the agency announced on Tuesday.
Due to the extreme impact forces, only a few bodies were found intact, and none was visually identifiable. All passengers were identified using fingerprints, dental records, tattoos, personal items, and anthropological examination.
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