Word: jackscrew
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...ordered an "urgent airworthiness directive" for all 1,100 MD-80-series jets similar to the one that went down en route from Mexico to San Francisco. The move follows a deep-ocean search effort that pulled damaged pieces of the MD-83's horizontal stabilizer, known as a jackscrew, from the water - and the discovery, during voluntary inspections of the rest of Alaska Airlines' MD-80s, of similar problems on several planes...
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