![]() ![]() Cynthia Oti, an investment broker and financial talk show host at San Francisco's KSFO-AM.Jean Gandesbery, author of the book Seven Mile Lake: Scenes from a Minnesota Life, died alongside her husband, Robert.Bouquets of flowers started arriving at the company's headquarters in SeaTac, Washington the day after the crash. Alaska Airlines stated that on less busy flights, employees commonly filled seats that would otherwise have been left empty. Īt least 35 occupants of Flight 261 were connected in some manner with Alaska Airlines or its sister carrier Horizon Air, including 12 actual employees, leading many of the airline's personnel to mourn for those lost in the crash. Of the passengers, one was Mexican and one was British, with all others being U.S. Of the passengers, 30 were traveling to San Francisco 3 were bound for Eugene, Oregon and 3 passengers were headed for Fairbanks, Alaska. The five crew members and 47 of the passengers on board the plane were bound for Seattle. Three Seattle-based flight attendants were also on board, completing the five-person crew. Both pilots had previous military experience - Thompson in the U.S. : 11 Thompson had flown for Alaska Airlines for 18 years and Tansky for 15 neither pilot had been involved in an accident or incident prior to the crash. : 10–11 First Officer William "Bill" Tansky, 57, had accumulated 8,140 total flight hours, including about 8,060 hours as first officer in the MD-80. Captain Theodore "Ted" Thompson, 53, had accrued 17,750 flight hours, and had more than 4,000 hours experience flying MD-80s. The pilots of Flight 261 were both highly experienced aviators. The aircraft was the 1995th DC-9/MD80 family airframe built, was manufactured and delivered new to Alaska Airlines in 1992, and had logged 26,584 flight hours and 14,315 cycles before the crash. The aircraft involved in the accident was a McDonnell-Douglas MD-83, serial number 53077, and registered as N963AS. The accident served as an inspiration for the fictionalized crash landing depicted in the 2012 movie Flight starring Denzel Washington. The thread failure was caused by excessive wear resulting from Alaska Airlines' insufficient lubrication of the jackscrew assembly." For their heroic efforts to save the plane, both pilots were posthumously awarded the Air Line Pilots Association Gold Medal for Heroism. The probable cause was stated to be "a loss of airplane pitch control resulting from the in-flight failure of the horizontal stabilizer trim system jackscrew assembly's trapezoidal nut threads. The subsequent investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that inadequate maintenance led to excessive wear and eventual failure of a critical flight control system during flight. The flight was a scheduled international passenger flight from Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz International Airport in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, to Seattle–Tacoma International Airport near Seattle, Washington, United States, with an intermediate stop at San Francisco International Airport near San Francisco, California. Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz International AirportĪlaska Airlines Flight 261 was an Alaska Airlines flight of a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 plane that crashed into the Pacific Ocean on January 31, 2000, roughly 2.7 miles (4.3 km 2.3 nmi) north of Anacapa Island, California, following a catastrophic loss of pitch control, killing all 88 on board: two pilots, three cabin crew members, and 83 passengers. To learn more about relationship-based ads, online behavioral advertising and our privacy practices, please review Bank of America Online Privacy Notice and our Online Privacy FAQs.Aircraft involved in the accident seen in 1992 These ads are based on your specific account relationships with us. In addition, financial advisors/Client Managers may continue to use information collected online to provide product and service information in accordance with account agreements.Īlso, if you opt out of online behavioral advertising, you may still see ads when you log in to your account, for example through Online Banking or MyMerrill. If you opt out, though, you may still receive generic advertising. If you prefer that we do not use this information, you may opt out of online behavioral advertising. This information may be used to deliver advertising on our Sites and offline (for example, by phone, email and direct mail) that's customized to meet specific interests you may have. Here's how it works: We gather information about your online activities, such as the searches you conduct on our Sites and the pages you visit. Relationship-based ads and online behavioral advertising help us do that. We strive to provide you with information about products and services you might find interesting and useful. ![]()
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