"The 353-page report found the jet should have been grounded before departing on the fatal flight because of an earlier cockpit issue.However, because the issue was not recorded properly the plane was allowed to take off without the fault being fixed, it said.Further, a crucial sensor - which had been bought from a repair shop in Florida - had not been properly tested, the report found. But at the heart of that chain was MCAS - a control system that the pilots didn't know about, and which was vulnerable to a single sensor failure. Boeing - and regulators - allowed the system to be designed in this way and didn't change it after the Lion Air crash, leading to a further disaster. The company said "we look forward to continuing to work together" with Lion Air in the future.A Lion Air spokesman said the crash was an "unthinkable tragedy" and it was essential to take immediate corrective actions to ensure a similar accident never occurred again.The pressure on Boeing to explain what it knew about the problems with the 737 Max has intensified. A stall can occur when a plane ascends too sharply.It was sold as a next generation aircraft. Though the 737 Max 8 planes did actually have a number of changes, including the size and location of the engines. JAKARTA, Indonesia — As the seconds ticked by on the doomed Indonesian flight, the pilot handed the controls to his co-pilot and flipped through the pages of a technical manual, trying to figure out what was happening.The supplication was caught on the final seconds of audio in the cockpit voice recorder.“God is great,” Mr. Harvino, an experienced Indonesian aviator, said, then recited a verse asking God to grant a miracle.But there was no miracle on Oct. 29, when the brand-new Boeing 737 Max 8 dived into the Java Sea in Indonesia, amid good weather, after 12 minutes in the air.“I think he knew it was unrecoverable,” said Nurcahyo Utomo, the head of the air accident subcommittee of the Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee, who listened to and described the contents of the cockpit voice recorder that was retrieved from the ocean floor in January.Until that point, he said, the pilots had sounded in control and calm.How the pilots of Lion Air Flight 610 lost control.Indonesian transportation officials say they do not expect to publish a final report on the accident until July or August at the earliest. All of the Boeing 737 Max 8s in the world are believed to have been grounded, while a second crash in Ethiopia is investigated. Confusion, Then Prayer, in Cockpit of Doomed Lion Air Jet - The … October 25, 2019 / 6:31 AM / CBS/AP FAA knew risk of another 737 Max malfunction . Investigators found faults by Boeing, Lion Air and the pilots led to the crash, which killed 189 people. There were In documents provided by Boeing to lawmakers, a pilot wrote that he had run into unexpected trouble during tests. The higher and more forward position of the larger engines can cause the plane’s nose to pitch up, a potential danger. Really like the Max.” Major changes to the plane would have required pilots to be retrained. But the F.A.A. Bloomberg.com - Improper Takeoff Was a Missed Opportunity to …
The pilot also asked for the plane to be given a 3,000-foot clearance above and below as it continued to roller coaster through the air.In the cockpit voice recording, the pilots discussed unreliable airspeed and altitude readings they were getting, national transportation safety officials said.They consulted the manual to deal with these anomalies.
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But they did not seem to know about the MCAS system, nor did they speak about what was causing the plane to repeatedly push downward.Shortly after Mr. Harvino’s prayer, the plane disappeared from radar, and the cockpit voice recorder stopped.