The trim screw had been allowed to go dry. The failure had nothing to do with Clintons, Chinese, or Bush.
<< .... this one wasn't the Commies or the Clintons. It was Alaska Airlines' flawed maintenance procedures .... >>
You neglected to mention that Alaska -- as good an operator as exists in America -- had sought and been given specific FAA approval for its tail-plane jack maintenance-proceedure variations.
<< The trim-jack had been allowed to go dry. The failure had nothing to do with Clintons or Chinese .... >>
Whatever gets you through the night.
And meanwhile all of the Chinese MD-8X/B-117 component contracts are, thank God, cancelled.
And Alaska and all the other carriers which had aircraft in essentially the same condition are keeping their grease-monkeys busier.