Illustrative image (Photo: AFP) Hanoi (VNA) – Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee held a meeting onOctober 23 with families of victims of the crash of a Lion Air 737 MAX jet lastOctober ahead of the release of the final report.
Investigators said thatmechanical and design issues were blamed for the crash. Contributing factors tothe crash of the new Boeing jet, which killed all 189 on board, includedincorrect assumptions on how an anti-stall device called the Maneuvering
CharacteristicsAugmentation System (MCAS) functioned and how pilots would react.
The briefing slidesshowed that a lack of documentation about how systems would behave in a crash scenario,including the activation of a "stick shaker" device that warnedpilots of a dangerous loss of lift, also contributed, Reuters reported.
"Deficiencies"in the flight crew's communication and manual control of the aircraftcontributed as well, the slides showed, as did alerts and distractions in thecockpit.
Reliance on a singleangle-of-attack sensor made MCAS more vulnerable to failure, while the sensoron the plane that crashed had been miscalibrated during an earlier repair, accordingto the slides.
The 737 MAX wasgrounded worldwide after a second deadly crash in Ethiopia. The manufacturerfaces nearly 100 lawsuits over the Ethiopian Airlines crash on March 10, whichkilled all 157 people on board the flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi.
Boeing last monthsettled the first claims stemming from the Lion Air crash. Three other sourcestold Reuters the families of those killed will receive at least 1.2 million USDeach
Indonesia media havesaid the report could be released as early as October 25./.
Investigators said thatmechanical and design issues were blamed for the crash. Contributing factors tothe crash of the new Boeing jet, which killed all 189 on board, includedincorrect assumptions on how an anti-stall device called the Maneuvering
CharacteristicsAugmentation System (MCAS) functioned and how pilots would react.
The briefing slidesshowed that a lack of documentation about how systems would behave in a crash scenario,including the activation of a "stick shaker" device that warnedpilots of a dangerous loss of lift, also contributed, Reuters reported.
"Deficiencies"in the flight crew's communication and manual control of the aircraftcontributed as well, the slides showed, as did alerts and distractions in thecockpit.
Reliance on a singleangle-of-attack sensor made MCAS more vulnerable to failure, while the sensoron the plane that crashed had been miscalibrated during an earlier repair, accordingto the slides.
The 737 MAX wasgrounded worldwide after a second deadly crash in Ethiopia. The manufacturerfaces nearly 100 lawsuits over the Ethiopian Airlines crash on March 10, whichkilled all 157 people on board the flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi.
Boeing last monthsettled the first claims stemming from the Lion Air crash. Three other sourcestold Reuters the families of those killed will receive at least 1.2 million USDeach
Indonesia media havesaid the report could be released as early as October 25./.
VNA
