Off-duty pilot who hitched a ride helped save Boeing 737 Max a day before it crashed
"All the data and information that we have on the flight and the aircraft have been submitted to the Indonesian NTSC. We can't provide additional comment at this stage due the ongoing investigation on the accident," Lion Air spokesman Danang Prihantoro said by phone.
A malfunctioning sensor is believed to have tricked the Lion Air plane's computers into thinking it needed to automatically bring the nose down to avoid a stall. "We will fully cooperate in the review in the Department of Transportation's audit," Boeing spokesman Charles Bickers said in an email. The company has declined to comment on the criminal probe.
The Allied Pilots Association union at American Airlines also said details about the system weren't included in the documentation about the plane. After this horrific Lion Air accident, you'd think that everyone flying this airplane would know that's how you turn this off.If the same issue is also found to have helped bring down Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, one of the most vexing questions crash investigators and aviation safety consultants are asking is why the pilots on that flight didn't perform the checklist that disables the system.
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