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Alaska Airlines Flight 261: Part 2
N50DX radios in. Quietly, hesitantly: “And he’s just hit the water.” Seconds later, Skywest comes on the line and reports the same: “Uh, yes, sir, he…
Apr 3, 2023 • 
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Alaska Airlines Flight 261: Part 1
On January 31, 2000, years of greed and negligence will come to rest on the stripped threads of a tiny acme nut in the 40-foot horizontal stabilizer of…
Apr 2, 2023 • 
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Teaser: Alaska Airlines Flight 261
Enjoy this teaser for The Unlucky Ones' inaugural post: Alaska Airlines Flight 261. The final piece will be posted tomorrow!
Apr 1, 2023 • 
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Alaska Airlines Flight 261: Part 1
Apr 2, 2023 • Desiree
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Coming Soon, pt. 2
Mar 30, 2023 • Desiree
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Teaser: Alaska Airlines Flight 261
Apr 1, 2023 • Desiree
Coming Soon, pt. 2
This time, for real...to be posted this week: the really f'ed-up story of Alaska Airlines Flight 261. P.S. I love Alaska Airlines, fwiw. But they had to…
Mar 30, 2023 • 
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Coming soon…
At long last, after only about seven dozen other podcasters and newsletter writers got the same idea, I’m starting my disaster Substack…
Mar 20, 2023 • 
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