[californiadisasters] Families Gather to Honor 88 Victims of AK Airlines Flight 261

Families gather to honor 88 victims of Alaska Airlines Flight 261

• By Scott Hadly
• Ventura County Star
  
• Ventura County Star
• Posted January 31, 2011 at 7:11 p.m.

As she read the names of the dead on Monday — her son and daughter in-law Terry and Babara Ryan, her grandsons Pat and James Ryan, and the names of James' five friends — emotion welled up in Madeline Ryan's voice.

With each name, her husband and daughter placed a white rose on the individual plaques of the victims whose names are aligned in a circular sundial monument at Port Hueneme Beach.

The ceremony was to commemorate the 88 passengers and crew who died 11 years ago when Alaska Airlines Flight 261 dropped out of a clear winter blue sky and crashed into the Pacific Ocean near Anacapa Island off the Ventura County coast.

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