Report describes how family members at SeaTac airport received the news of the tragedy of Flight 261.

Read about the specifications of the Boeing MD-83 jet that crashed in the ocean about 20 miles northwest of Los Angeles.

Peruse an article that examines the safety standards used by today's major airlines. Find out if those standards are subject to interpretation.

After government-ordered inspections of all MD-80 jets, 23 were found to have problems with the horizontal stabilizer.

Get an update on investigators' attempts to discover the cause of the crash of Flight 261. Find an image gallery, audio files and a video clip.

National Transportation Safety Board says that a loud noise can be heard on the flight voice recorder from Flight 261. Find related links.

Look over the names of the passengers and crew aboard Alaska Flight 261.

National Transportation Safety Board completed its field study of the crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261.

Investigators say a blip on the radar screen before Flight 261 crashed may have been a piece of the plane falling from the sky.

Crash investigators continue to search for the flight data recorder after finding the "pinger," which was somehow separated from the recorder.

Relays the grief that struck family members who were waiting for the passengers of Flight 261 at San Francisco International Airport.

Find out what investigators have learned from analyzing the flight voice recorder. They believe the jet was upside down when it crashed.

Find an update on the search efforts underway on the California coast after the crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261. Includes audio and video.