Alaska Airlines Penerbangan 261 merupakan sebuah penerbangan terjadwal dari Bandar Udara Internasional San Francisco menuju Bandar Udara Internasional Seattle-Tacoma. Pesawat ini membawa 83 penumpang dan 5 awak kabin. Kecelakaan ini menewaskan seluruh penumpangnya yang berjumlah 88 orang. Pesawat jatuh di Samudra Pasifik di dekat Kepulauan Anacapa setelah gagal mendarat di Los Angeles. Kecelakaan ini disebabkan oleh kegagalan sistem trim horizontal, di mana akibat kelalaian perawatan (kelalaian pelumasan), mekanisme baut penggerak trim horizontal menjadi macet dan ketika coba dibebaskan, mekanisme trim tersebut menjadi aus dan patah, membuat trim horizontal terlepas dari penggerak dan berada di posisi naik, membuat pesawat menukik tajam dan jatuh ke laut. Pesawat tersebut hancur berkeping-keping saat menghantam laut, menewaskan seluruh penumpang dan krunya.

Pranala luar

• Main NTSB Alaska Airlines Flight 261 investigation page
• NTSB Publication on the Alaska Airlines Flight 261 disaster - Executive Summary
• The NTSB's full report
• NTSB investigation presentation material, including animated accident reconstruction
• Photographs of recovered jackscrew
• Applying Lessons Learned from Accidents, Alaska Airlines Flight 261 Diarsipkan 2007-11-25 di Wayback Machine. - Informative analysis at faa.gov, with technical diagrams and photos
• Seattle Post-Intelligencer special report^{[pranala nonaktif permanen]}
• "The Fall of Flight 261 Diarsipkan 2010-01-14 di Wayback Machine.," TIME
• Archive of Alaska Airlines news reports about 261
• A calm 'thank you,' then Alaska 261 fell toward the sea^{[pranala nonaktif permanen]} - Seattlepi.com story about Alaska 261
• Names of those aboard Alaska Airlines Flight 261 Diarsipkan 2008-07-15 di Wayback Machine. - CNN Article with names of victims
• A child's dream of 'snow every day' is lost - Seattlepi.com^{[pranala nonaktif permanen]} - The story is about the loss of John Hay Elementary School students on Alaska 261
• Alaska Airlines pilots struggled to save plane Diarsipkan 2008-02-15 di Wayback Machine. - CNN
• The Lives That Were Lost CBS News
• The faces of Flight 261's victims^{[pranala nonaktif permanen]}
• Alaska Airlines Flight 261, CBS News
• Alaska Airlines Center in Turmoil After Complaint by Mechanics The New York Times
• Alaska Flight 261 bound for Seattle crashes into the Pacific Ocean on January 31, 2000 - Historylink.org
• Hay school family' remembers its own^{[pranala nonaktif permanen]}
• The victims of Flight 261, The Boston Globe
• Alaska Airlines grounds 18 planes, CBC
• Alaska Airlines Crash Hearing Looks at Aircraft Parts Design, The New York Times
• "Navy expands search for debris at Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash scene," United States Navy
• "Crash Shows Impact of Safety Shortcomings on Bottom Line Air Safety Week
• "S.F.-BOUND JET PLUNGES INTO SEA -- 88 FEARED DEAD
• Memorial site for Colleen Whorley and Monte Donaldson, passengers of Alaska 261
• Error Sequence and the loss of 88 souls on Alaska Flight 261
• Pre-crash pictures of N963AS

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