The pilots of an Alaska Airlines MD-80 fight desperately for control, as their aircraft careens towards the Pacific ocean with terrifying speed. No matter what they do, they cannot seem to pull their ...

An investigation determined a jackscrew in the tail of an MD-83 aircraft failed in flight, leading to an uncontrollable dive that doomed the 83 passengers and five crew members on Alaska 261.

Fifty of the 88 passengers on Flight 261 were returning home to Seattle. The crash took the lives of elementary school students, off-duty Alaska employees, a soccer star, an art director ...