Alaska Airlines memorial at beach in Port Hueneme Tuesday August 12, 2003. The Sundial sculpture hon

Alaska Airlines memorial at beach in Port Hueneme Tuesday August 12, 2003. The Sundial sculpture honors the 88 passengers and crew who lost their lives on January 31 2000 when Alaska Airlines flight 261 crashed off Anacapa Island enroute from Puerto vallarta, Mexico to San Francisco and Seattle. Alaska Airlines will not face criminal charges over the crash of Flight 261 in 2000, federal investigators have decided. The decision was revealed Monday in a quarterly filing by corporate parent Alaska Air Group with the Securities and Exchange Commission and was confirmed by a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in San Francisco. ''In July 2003, the U.S. attorney's office informed Alaska that, after a review of all of the relevant information, it has concluded that the evidence does not warrant the filing of criminal charges and it has closed its investigation into the Flight 261 accident,'' the filing stated. (Photo by Spencer Weiner/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)