W A S H I N G T O N, Dec. 14 -- The tail jackscrew that helps to stabilize anaircraft was the focus of attention today as engineers andinspectors offered their ideas on what caused the fatal plunge ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The federal government has decided not to file criminal charges against Alaska Airlines over the crash of Flight 261 off the Ventura County coast in January 2000. The U.S. attorney’s office in San ...

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.

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) A computer-generated warning that came too late. Paperwork not in order. Two types of greases mixed up and potentially corrosive. These were among revelations surfacing Friday in a ...

The jackscrew, combined with a newly obtained satellite flight track of the plane, convinced the FAA that there were similarities to the Oct. 29 crash of the same Max model off the coast of Indonesia.

Emmy Award-winning journalist Kris Van Cleave is the senior transportation correspondent for CBS News based in Phoenix, Arizona, where he also serves as a national correspondent reporting for all CBS ...