Lion Air jet's airspeed indicator malfunctioned on 4 flights
Source: Associated Press
Lion Air jets airspeed indicator malfunctioned on 4 flights
By NINIEK KARMINI
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) The black box data recorder from a crashed Lion Air jet shows its airspeed indicator malfunctioned on its last four flights, investigators said Monday, just hours after distraught relatives of victims confronted the airlines co-founder at a meeting organized by officials.
National Transportation Safety Committee chairman Soerjanto Tjahjono said the problem was similar on each of the four flights, including the fatal flight on Oct. 29 in which the plane plunged into the Java Sea minutes after taking off from Jakarta, killing all 189 people on board.
Erratic speed and altitude on the planes previous flight, from Denpasar on Bali to Jakarta, were widely reported and when we opened the black box, yes indeed the technical problem was the airspeed or the speed of the plane, Tjahjono told a news conference.
Data from the black box showed that two flights before Denpasar-Jakarta also experienced the same problem, he said. In the black box there were four flights that experienced problems with the airspeed indicator.
Indonesian investigators, the planes manufacturer, Boeing, and the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board are formulating a more specific inspection for Boeing 737 MAX 8 planes related to the airspeed problem, Tjahjono said.
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