Jakarta, November 28
A Lion Air jet that crashed last month should have been grounded over a recurrent technical problem and never permitted to make the fatal flight, Indonesian authorities said on Wednesday in a report that took aim at the carrier’s poor safety culture.
The Boeing 737 MAX vanished from radar about 13 minutes after taking off from Jakarta on October 29, slamming into the Java Sea moments after it had asked to return to the capital. The preliminary report didn’t pinpoint a definitive cause of the accident, which killed 189 people on board, including an Indian pilot, with a final report not likely to be filed until next year.
But investigators said Lion Air kept putting the plane back into service despite repeatedly failing to fix a problem with the airspeed indicator. “The plane was no longer airworthy and it should not have kept flying,” said Nurcahyo Utomo, aviation head, NTSC. — AFP
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