...route to San Francisco from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, killing 88 people. The pilots had reported problems with the Boeing MD-83's horizontal stabilizer, a flap on the tail that is tilted by the jackscrew assembly to determine the pitch of the...

...say they did nothing wrong when they overturned a colleague's 1997 directive to replace the jackscrew assembly on a Boeing MD-83 that crashed off the California coast more than two years later, killing 88 people. In interviews with The Seattle...

...wear led to the catastrophic failure of the jackscrew during Flight 261, which killed all 88 people aboard when the Boeing MD-83 crashed into the Pacific Ocean off Southern California in January 2000. Shortly after the crash, the FAA issued an...

...replace the jackscrew assembly on a Boeing MD-83 that crashed off the California...replace the jackscrew assembly on a Boeing MD-83 that crashed off the California...replace the jackscrew assembly on a Boeing MD-83 that crashed off the California...

...route to San Francisco from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, killing 88 people. The pilots had reported problems with the Boeing MD-83's horizontal stabilizer, a flap on the tail that is tilted by the jackscrew assembly to determine the pitch of the...