(Bloomberg) -- A Southwest Airlines Co. plane that experienced an unusual rolling motion several times during a May flight had undergone regularly scheduled maintenance work two days earlier, US ...

This coupled motion results in a dynamic instability ... California involuntarily performed a Dutch roll. The plane managed to safely land without injury to its 175 passengers and six crewmembers ...

A Dutch roll is a maneuver that involves simultaneous yaw (side-to-side motion across a flat horizontal plane) and roll (see-saw motion over a horizontal plane). "Dutch roll is an oscillatory ...

Less than an hour after taking off from Phoenix on May 25th, the plane experienced an uncontrolled side-to-side yawing motion known as a Dutch roll while cruising at 32,000 feet. The pilots of ...

A Dutch roll is an unstable and potentially dangerous combination of yaw, or the tail sliding sideways, and the plane rocking from side to side. The motion repeats, usually several times.

The plane landed safely in Oakland and ... Boeing states that the name "Dutch roll" is a reference to the motion of figure skaters when they laterally rock from side to side.