Article: Flaws in Alaska Airlines Planes Leads to FAA Call for Broad Inspections.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

Article: METAL SHAVINGS FOUND IN THREE MORE AIRLINERS
United Press International;  February 11, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... International 02-11-2000 Metal shavings found in three more airliners ... have caused the crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261. The National ... shavings were found in two Alaska Airlines MD-80s on Thursday. The ... planes were grounded after metal shavings were found in the ...

Article: SPACEWALKERS FIND METAL SHAVINGS IN SOLAR WING ...
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  October 29, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... station Sunday made a disturbing discovery: what appear to be metal shavings inside a joint that is needed to turn a set of solar power ... and were disheartened when Daniel Tani radioed down that metal shavings were everywhere. "It's quite clear that it's metal ...

Article: Unvalidated rework procedure one cause of metal ...
Validation Times;  May 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... was one of the factors contributing to the presence of metal shavings in tablets manufactured by Berlex Laboratories, FDA said ... lots manufactured between Nov. 2000 and May 2001 contained metal shavings as long as 3-3/4 inches in length and 5/32 inches ...

Article: Metal shavings are scrap no more. (Sneak ...
Design News;  October 21, 2002 ;     700+ words ...When machining, most people focus on the part or product they are producing. Purdue professor Srinivasan Chandrasekar and his colleague, Dale Compton, however, find the scrap most interesting. While studying machining processes, the researchers found that the metal chips produced were composed of

Article: Metal shavings on beach investigated in Racine
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  August 13, 1997 ;     270 words ...Officials were trying Tuesday to identify dark, iron-like shavings found on the sands of a Lake Michigan beach. "We can't tell at this point what it is," Diane Muri, the city's public health administrator, said of the material at Zoo Beach on the city's north side. Illegal industrial dumping is the

Article: Eight Alaska Airlines planes still grounded for ...
Charleston Daily Mail;  February 14, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... jets. Two of Alaska Airlines' grounded planes have metal shavings around the jackscrews ... While the Alaska Airlines planes were ... threads and metal shavings, and the pilots ... reinspected and Alaska Airlines inspectors found ...

Article: Alaska Airlines decision not to change jackscrew ...
Airline Industry Information;  February 15, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... that a decision by Alaska Airlines in 1997 not to replace ... apparently revealed that Alaska Airlines engineers had suspected ... have problems, with Alaska Airlines grounding two aircraft found to have metal shavings around the jackscrews ...