Alaska Airlines has set up a website and are working to get a passenger list on that site: The URL is: www. alaskaair.com Can someone do a link?

Local coverage is now showing boats coming into Port Huneme with debris, and Coast Guard crews going out to relieve those on the crash site. I live about 10 miles from Point Mugu.

-- Linda (lindasue1@earthlink.net), February 01, 2000

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Alaska Airlines

-- Steve Baxter (chicoqh@home.com), February 01, 2000.

83 passengers and five crew.

-- Mara (MaraWayne@aol.com), February 01, 2000.

Linda,

So do I, in Ventura...

Strange isn't it, we've seen firestorms, earthquakes, floods and mudslides.. don't ever recall anything like this in our woods, besides the occassional hotdog crashing out at Santa Paula making a movie...:)

-- Carl (clilly@goentre.com), February 01, 2000.

Alaska Airlines ground manager at the flights origin now reporting that 30 of the passengers were Airline employees and family members flying on pass.

A large number of the casualties on TWA Fight 800 were also airline employees. Makes the recovery that much harder because everyone knew or had worked with some of the victims.

This airline does a magnificant job, and routinely operates in some extraordinary weather conditions. They are a lifeline to my community and many others throughout Alaska. We offer our prayers, condolances, and support!

-- (snowleopard6@webtv.net), February 01, 2000.

My sincere condolences to family and friends of passengers and crew.

The Alaska Airlines website will have its next press conference at 11:15 p.m. PST. When it is released, the passenger list will most likely be posted there too.

For further information, the National Transportation Safety Board website has a list of more than 44,000 aviation accidents.

In the past I've seen sites that keep track of incidents, as well. They can give an indication of problems with specific airplanes. The only previous problem I could find for Alaskan Airlines' MD80 was

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"In February 1999, another of the airline's fleet of MD-80s reported flight control difficulties during takeoff from Fairbanks International Airport.

"The pilot said the plane's nose failed to rise as he pulled back on the control column until he applied excessive pressure. The plane continued to Anchorage for an emergency landing. No one aboard was hurt."

-- Rachel Gibson (rgibson@hotmail.com), February 01, 2000.

Carl, You're so right..........I've lived in Ventura county for almost 33 years, and we've never had an airline crash. There was one crash at sea with a flight taking off out of LAX......I think it was an SAS, back in the late 60's or early 70's, but that was L.A. County. And yes, we've got earthquakes, floods, mudslides, brush fires, etc, but airplne crashes.....never. One of my favorite newspaper cartoons that was in the local newspaper back in 1994 shows a weather man in front of a map of California.........he says......"Theres' an 80% chance of quakes with heavy brush fires and widely scattered mudslides. Tonight, partly cloudy dust storms with record high looting and a chance of race riots followed by the BIG ONE!"

-- Linda (lindasue1@earthlink.net), February 01, 2000.

Snow...

Prayers here as well.... gonna be hard to fish out there after this... may God bring comfort to the friends, family and coworkers of all those on that flight...

-- Carl (clilly@goentre.com), February 01, 2000.

Linda...

ROTFLMAO... funny :) but isn't that the truth?

-- Carl (clilly@goentre.com), February 01, 2000.

Well, Ventura went from someplace between Santa Barbara and LA, to the place they scared the crap out of a few thousand people over the weekend with a false alarm that got stuck on repeat that Lake Casitas had collapsed, and get your butts to higher ground... to the deadly crash tonight...

I hope we've played out our karma...

-- Carl (clilly@goentre.com), February 01, 2000.

Santa Barbara... getting old and the eyes and mind are starting to go... we need a spell checker Phil!

-- Carl (clilly@goentre.com), February 01, 2000.

Nope,

we need a brain-checker, least I do... night all...

-- Carl (clilly@goentre.com), February 01, 2000.

I saw this on Sightings.com http://www.sightings.com/politics6/alaska261.htm

This should be investigated fully. I see there is a glitch on the date of the newsarticle tho.

-- Deja (dejawho@harborside.com), February 01, 2000.

Ooops, I should have put the headline up for the above post. It reads "Did US Navy Accidentally Down Alaska Airlines Flight 261?"

I have been a long time lurker here, but have never posted.

-- Deja (dejawho@harborside.com), February 01, 2000.