Never Forget | Honoring Alaska Airlines Flight 261 | January 31, 2000

January 31, 2021 16:22

Never Forget | Honoring Alaska Airlines Flight 261 | January 31, 2000

Photo by Susan Ewbank – From the remembrance ceremony at The Hub in SeaTac on January 29, 2021

It has been twenty one years since we lost Alaska Airlines Flight 261 PVR-SFO when it suffered a catastrophic flight control failure off the coast of Southern California near Point Hueneme.

We will never forget Flight Attendants Kristin Mills, Craig Pulanco and Allison Shanks; Captain Ted Thompson; First Officer William Tansky; Sheri Christensen, Rachel Janosik, Ileana Ost, Sarah Pearson, Anjesh Prasad, James Ryan and Stacy Schuyler.

Select places of remembrance:

AS 261 Memorial Sundial in Port Hueneme, CA
Memorial Garden and Reflection Wall at the Alaska Airlines Flight Operations Training Center in SeaTac (also honoring the seven employees from Flight 1866 in Juneau who we lost in September 1971 and other co-workers who have passed while on duty)
AS 261 Dolphin Bench Memorial at the SEA Ground Transportation Plaza, located on the third floor of the parking garage at the north end of the airport

Never Forget | Alaska Airlines Flight 261 | January 31, 2000

January 31, 2020 16:22

**The Flight Operations Memorial Garden and Reflection Wall in SeaTac honors the Alaska and Horizon employees lost on Flight 261.** (**The monument also honors the seven employees lost on** Flight 1866 in Juneau in September 1971, and other co-workers who have died while performing their duties.)

Today marks twenty years since we lost Alaska Airlines Flight 261 PVR-SFO-SEA when it suffered a catastrophic flight control failure off the coast of Southern California near Point Hueneme.

Never Forget | Alaska Airlines Flight 261 | January 31, 2000

January 31, 2019 16:22

Flight 261 sundial at Point Hueneme, CA by Armando Rios

Alaska Airlines Flight 261 PVR-SFO-SEA was lost on January 31, 2000, when it crashed off the coast near Point Hueneme in Southern California when it suffered a catastrophic flight control failure.

We will never forget Flight Attendant Kristin Mills, Flight Attendant Craig Pulanco, Flight Attendant Allison Shanks, Captain Ted Thompson and First Officer William Tansky.

Never Forget | Alaska Airlines Flight 261 | January 31, 2000

January 31, 2018 16:21

On this day in 2000, Alaska Airlines Flight 261 PVR-SFO-SEA crashed off the coast of Southern California after it suffered a catastrophic flight control failure. A sundial memorial was constructed in Port Hueneme, California (pictured above) to remember those lives lost.

We will never forget our fellow crewmembers: Flight Attendant Kristin Mills, Flight Attendant Craig Pulanco, Flight Attendant Allison Shanks, Captain Ted Thompson and First Officer William Tansky. Our thoughts are with their friends and families today and always.

In Memorium Alaska Airlines Flight 261

January 31, 2017 16:22