On October 29, 2018, the latest in a string of high-profile aviation disasters struck Southeast Asia. Some media were accused of pushing the family members to answer unethical questions.On 31 October, Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi temporarily suspended Lion Air's technical director Muhammad Arif from his duties based on the crash investigation. Earlier this year, a Malaysia Airlines flight departed from Brisbane, Australia with covers still affixed to the pitot tubes, resulting in improper readings. The cockpit voice recorder is still missing, though searchers narrowed their focus based on a weak locator signal.Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency chief Muhammad Syaugi updated the media on the search operation, which is now in its seventh day.
Only when passenger anger reached a fever pitch did the staff let them disembark the plane.Passengers also recalled when the plane dipped suddenly. According to reports from the Indonesian investigation, on the day before the plane tragically crashed, the Boeing MAX 8 aircraft faced an identical malfunction. "In January 2020, newly released unredacted internal messages within Boeing employees reveal that they have mocked Lion Air with profanity, belittling the airline for requesting additional simulator training for their Boeing 737 MAX pilots in 2017 citing that Lion's sister airline (Lion Air co-founder and former CEO Rusdi Kirana, currently the Indonesian ambassador to Malaysia, reportedly considered cancelling Lion Air's outstanding 190 Boeing aircraft orders – worth some $22 billion at list prices – over what he viewed as an attempt by Boeing to blame Lion Air for the crash.On 31 December, the family of the first officer filed a lawsuit against Boeing, claiming negligence. 3. Baum Hedlund represents one family who lost their loved one in this crash.The Boeing 737 MAX 8 plane departed from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta at 6:21 a.m. local time heading to Pangkal Pinang Airport on Bangka, an island off Sumatra. Yesterday, family members held a funeral for the first identified victim, a 24-year-old woman who worked at the engineering ministry.In the moments before Lion Air Flight JT 610 crashed off the coast of Jakarta, the plane maneuvered with erratic airspeed, altitude and direction, leading some aviation experts to speculate whether a problem with the aircraft’s pitot-static system played a role in the disaster.The pitot-static system is a series of instruments used to calculate airspeed and altitude.
Victims should know there is help for them in their grief. The first victim was identified two days after the crash. The plane had surpassed 800 hours of flight time, according to reports. Such speed is typical for mid-flight, but unheard of during descent. Over the past several months Boeing has been making changes to the 737 MAX. One of the crew was a technician and three were flight attendants in training, per the airline.Baum Hedlund aviation attorneys are pursuing legal action on behalf of Lion Air Flight 610 families who were pressured into signing unlawful release and discharge forms designed to strip away their legal rights.A few days after the tragic Lion Air crash, when victims’ families were still mourning, they were told that they could receive a payment of roughly 1.3 billion rupiah (equivalent to $91,600 USD) if they signed a form.But 1.3 billion rupiah is the bare minimum the families were entitled to receive. Lion Air crash investigators fault Boeing 737 Max’s flight-control system, regulatory lapses and pilot training. One year ago the domestic flight Lion Air Flight 610 crashed into the Java Sea thirteen minutes after takeoff, killing all 189 people aboard. All 189 people aboard the plane, including several children, were killed in the tragedy. The final investigation report was published on the 25th of October 2019. That stopped MCAS from pushing the plane’s nose down. Aviation experts say it is peculiar that the pilots did not declare an emergency when they notified air traffic control of their intention to return to the airport. A Lion Air Boeing 737 airplane carrying at least 188 souls on board plummeted into the sea upon take off from Jakarta, in Indonesia. Commercial air disaster investigations typically take a year or more to complete. The absence of guidance on MCAS or more detailed use of trim in the flight manuals and in flight crew training, made it more difficult for flight crews to properly respond to uncommanded MCAS. It was divided into two main areas. As the crew attempted to solve the problem, the extra pilot diagnosed the issue and prevented the plane from crashing. The main wreckage of the aircraft was located 13.9 km (7.5 nmi) from the coast of Tanjung Pakis and was about 200 m (220 yd) from the location where the FDR was discovered. Indonesia's national search and rescue agency said it found the crashed Lion Air plane's landing gear, the wheels and a large part of the body of the aircraft during Thursday's search. As Flightradar24’s director of communications and co-host of the AvTalk podcast Ian now gets to share that passion for aviation with millions of Flightradar24 users and listeners around the world.Get weekly updates on Flightradar24 and have the latest aviation news land in your inbox.Join over 500,000 subscribers and get access to 50+ premium-only features including: Search and rescue workers carry wreckage from Lion Air flight JT 610 to a truck to be transported to a warehouse for further investigation at the Tanjung Priok port on …
According to Indonesian TV presenter, Conchita Caroline, a technical problem with the Boeing 737 MAX plane caused it to be towed into a parking space on Sunday, the day before the fatal Lion Air crash.According to Caroline, passengers listened to an “unusual” sound coming from the plane’s engine as it sat on the tarmac. Clouds associated with turbulence were not present and winds were light.Eight days after the Lion Air crash in Indonesia, Boeing issued a flight crew operations manual (FCOM) bulletin for airlines operating 737 MAX model 8 and 9 planes, warning of erroneous cockpit readings during manual flight.According to Boeing, erroneous angle-of-attack (AOA) data can trigger automatic nose-down inputs. “Engineers in Jakarta received notes and did another repair before it took off,” Sirait told the media.