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'''Alaska Airlines Flight 261''' was a commercial passenger flight on a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 that crashed January 31, 2000, about 2.7 Miles North of Anacapa Island, in the Pacific Ocean. The flight took off from Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz International Airport and was supposed to arrive at Seattle–Tacoma International Airport with a stopover at San Francisco International Airport. Both pilots, all three flight attendants, as well as all 83 passengers died on impact from the crash. The cause of the accident was jackscrew failure.<ref name="AAR-02-01 Final Report">{{cite web |url=http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR0201.pdf |title=Aircraft Accident Report, Loss of Control and Impact with Pacific Ocean Alaska Airlines Flight 261 McDonnell Douglas MD-83, N963AS About 2.7 Miles {{bracket|{{convert|2.7|mi|disp=out}}}} North of Anacapa Island, California, January 31, 2000 |publisher=[[National Transportation Safety Board]] |id=NTSB/AAR-02/01 |date=December 30, 2002 |accessdate=September 9, 2016}}</ref>
==External Links==
* [https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR0201.pdf/ NTSB official report]
* [http://lessonslearned.faa.gov/ll_main.cfm?TabID=2&LLID=23&LLTypeID=2/ FAA "Lessons Learned" article about Alaska Airlines Flight 261]
== References ==
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[[Category:Aviation]]
==External Links==
* [https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR0201.pdf/ NTSB official report]
* [http://lessonslearned.faa.gov/ll_main.cfm?TabID=2&LLID=23&LLTypeID=2/ FAA "Lessons Learned" article about Alaska Airlines Flight 261]
== References ==
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[[Category:Aviation]]