Days before Seattle-area residents planned to commemorate the 88 lives lost on Alaska Airlines Flight 261, another collision ...

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On January 31, 2000, Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashed into the Pacific Ocean, killing all 88 people onboard due to a jackscrew failure caused by insufficient lubrication. The McDonnell Douglas MD-83 ...

Every year for the past 25-years, I await with a tender heart to receive a handmade candle in the mail, impeccably packaged, with a personal letter and a hand-written note from Claire in Seattle, ...

Seagulls, pelicans and other birds covered the area in numbers Dettleff had never seen before. Alaska Airlines Flight 261 corkscrewed into the ocean here from about 17,000 feet just hours earlier at 4 ...

by Jeremy Harris, KOMO News Reporter TOPICS: SEATTLE — Friday marks the 25th anniversary of the crash of Alaska Airlines 261, a Seattle-bound flight that crashed into the Pacific Ocean.

The helicopters arrived at precisely 4:22 p.m., rumbling over the crowd of about 300 that gathered at Hueneme Beach on Friday afternoon for a ceremony to honor the victims of Alaska Airlines ...

Alaska Airlines Flight 261 corkscrewed into the ocean here from about 17,000 feet just hours earlier at 4:21 p.m. on Jan. 31, 2000. The force sent walls of water spraying 200 feet into the air.