WASHINGTON -- Engineers at Kennedy Space Center say they have designed a fail-safe jackscrew mechanism that could have prevented the crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261. They say it can be easily ...

SEATTLE – Alaska Airlines found a jackscrew that had not been properly lubricated on one of its jets during an inspection of its MD-80 fleet this week. Failure of the jackscrew – part of the tail ...

The news that ground investigators had discovered the jackscrew from the Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX that crashed Sunday evoked strong memories and comparisons to the 2000 crash of Alaska Airlines ...

The chief executive of Alaska Airlines yesterday ordered a complete inspection of all 26 of the airline’s MD-80 series planes to determine whether their jackscrew assemblies were properly lubricated.

Three months after investigators concluded that a poorly greased screw brought down an Alaska Airlines jet off the California coast, federal prosecutors in San Francisco have reopened a criminal probe ...

A jackscrew with inadequate lubrication was discovered yesterday during a check of an Alaska Airlines jet, less than a week after federal officials opened an investigation into an earlier report of a ...

Alaska Airlines will inspect its MD-80 series aircraft to ensure that a tail mechanism implicated in a crash at the carrier nearly six years ago is being properly maintained, the airline said Friday.

Federal investigators believe lack of grease on a tail component caused the January 2000 crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 off the California coast, killing all 88 people aboard. A draft report that ...

Alaska Airlines inspectors in Seattle found 15 incidents of "dry" jackscrews on MD-80 series jets since March 2003, according to an investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration. But the FAA, ...

Alaska Airlines is strengthening jackscrew maintenance on its McDonnell Douglas MD-80s after recent investigations showed that part of one screw lacked lubrication. The airline recently completed ...