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You wouldn't happen to know if they also did the jackscrew work for McDonnell Douglas?
by jdougan 4y ago
You wouldn't happen to know if they also did the jackscrew work for McDonnell Douglas?
- WalterBright 4y agoNo, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did. If you're referring to the Alaska Air crash, the design of the jackscrew assembly was much older. The accident wasn't caused by a manufacturing fault in it. The design had problems, the maintenance on it was difficult, and pilot should have stopped trying to move it when it showed signs of trouble. The other crash involving jackscrew failure (on a 747) was when an unsecured armored personnel carrier slid back and fell on it, snapping it. You can't really blame the jackscrew for that. No airplane is designed to handle heavy iron cargo flopping about in the hold.