In Brief

-- Andrew Glazer

JOHN WAYNE AIRPORT -- No flights will be canceled or delayed because of

mandatory airplane inspections by the Federal Aviation Administration, an

airport spokeswoman said Friday.

On Friday, the FAA ordered all airlines to allow them to inspect MD-80,

MD-90, DC-9 and 717 jetliners -- about one-fifth of the nation’s

passenger airline fleet.

The Alaska Airlines plane that crashed and killed all 88 of its

passengers 20 miles north of Los Angeles last month was a MD-80. The FAA

is investigating whether a stripped screw in the airplane’s tail caused

the crash.

During inspections on Friday, FAA engineers discovered defective screws

in six other MD-80s.

The FAA will inspect several of the planes flying out of here at larger

airports around the country, said John Wayne Airport spokeswoman Nghia

Nguyen.