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Alaska Airlines Flight 261 was an Alaska Airlines flight of a McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series aircraft 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: 5 crew and 83 passengers.
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Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashed into a mountain in the Chilkat Range near Juneau, on September 4, 1971, killing all 111 on board. [5] It was the first fatal jet airliner crash for Alaska Airlines , and the worst plane crash in the history of the United States until June 24, 1975 .
On Nov. 12, 2001, an Airbus A300 crashed into a neighborhood in ... Alaska Airlines flight 261. January ... were killed when it nosedived into the Pacific Ocean 2.7 miles north of Anacapa ...
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The pilot is believed to lost spatial awareness and crashed into terrain. May 6, 1935 5 8 8 TWA Flight 6: near Atlanta: Missouri: Douglas DC-2: The aircraft crashed into terrain due to low visibility. February 23, 1934 8 0 0 1934 United Airlines Boeing 247 crash: Wasatch Mountains, 35 miles east of Salt Lake City: Utah: Boeing 247
Crashed into lake Lionel Poilâne: France 2002 Baker and entrepreneur Agusta A109 [32] off Cancale: crashed in sea during attempt to land on island off the coast in fog [32] Wiley Post: United States 1935 Aviation pioneer Lockheed Model 9 Orion (modified) Walakpa Bay near Barrow, Alaska engine failure; killed in the same crash as Will Rogers
The US Code of Federal Regulations defines an accident as "an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage;" an incident as "an occurrence ...