The pilots of an Alaska Airlines MD-80 fight desperately for control, as their aircraft careens towards the Pacific ocean with terrifying speed. No matter what they do, they cannot seem to pull their ...
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 ...
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 ...
by Jeremy Harris, KOMO News Reporter TOPICS: SEATTLE — Friday marks the 25th anniversary of the crash of AlaskaAirlines261, a Seattle-bound flight that crashed into the Pacific Ocean.