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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...