Alaska Airlines Penerbangan 261

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  - Informative analysis at faa.gov, with technical diagrams and photos
 Seattle Post-Intelligencer special report
 "The Fall of Flight 261 ," TIME
 Archive of Alaska Airlines news reports about 261
 A calm 'thank you,' then Alaska 261 fell toward the sea - Seattlepi.com story about Alaska 261
 Names of those aboard Alaska Airlines Flight 261  - CNN Article with names of victims
 A child's dream of 'snow every day' is lost - Seattlepi.com - The story is about the loss of John Hay Elementary School students on Alaska 261
 Alaska Airlines pilots struggled to save plane  - CNN
 The Lives That Were Lost CBS News
 The faces of Flight 261's victims
 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
 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

Kecelakaan dan insiden penerbangan tahun 2000
Peristiwa 2000