13th anniversary of deadly Alaska Air crash in Calif.
PORT HUENEME, Calif. (AP) - Families have made their annual pilgrimage for a Southern California beach memorial service 13 years after an Alaska Airlines jetliner plunged into the Pacific Ocean, killing 88 people.
Flight 261 was headed from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to Seattle when it crashed on Jan. 31, 2001, some eight miles off the Ventura County coast near Anacapa Island.
The Ventura County Star says families gather each year at the Port Hueneme Beach Park memorial to celebrate the dead.
On Thursday, they prayed for the victims and read the name of each person who died. With each name, a bell rang and a rose was placed on the names ringing the 10-foot sundial monument.
Failure of a jackscrew in the plane's tail caused the crash.
Flight 261 was headed from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to Seattle when it crashed on Jan. 31, 2001, some eight miles off the Ventura County coast near Anacapa Island.
The Ventura County Star says families gather each year at the Port Hueneme Beach Park memorial to celebrate the dead.
On Thursday, they prayed for the victims and read the name of each person who died. With each name, a bell rang and a rose was placed on the names ringing the 10-foot sundial monument.
Failure of a jackscrew in the plane's tail caused the crash.
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This actually happened on January 31, 2000... Therefore the 13 year anniversary. Not 2001, which would make it 12 years.Â
rest in peace Colleen. You are missed every single day.
Man I remember that crash sad attention to detail saves lives.
 @Exiled_Patriot Someone high up should have been jailed & fired for this - there's no excuse for it.  It was another cut-costs-at-all-costs move.
 @Exiled_Patriot It's terrible that the execs who created a schedule that didn't allow maintenance adequate time to work on aircraft and pressured mechanics to sign off on items
that should have been replaced reaped hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock options.
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