Just two minutes into the flight, the first officer reported a "flight control problem" to air traffic control and said the pilots intended to maintain an altitude of 5,000 feet (1,524 metres), the November report said. The captain was at the controls of Lion Air flight JT610 when the nearly new jet took off from Jakarta, and the first officer was handling the radio, according to a preliminary report issued in November. 'Flight control problem' just 2 minutes into flight Tjahjono said the NTSC interviewed the pilot but legally cannot publish its findings. According to two of Reuters's sources, the captain at Lion Air's full-service sister carrier, Batik Air, solved the similar flight control problems his presence on that flight, first reported by Bloomberg, was not disclosed in the preliminary report. The three pilots managed to resolve the issues and safely reached Jakarta. 28 flight from Bali's Denpasar airport to Jakarta when the jet encountered the same problems that appear to have caused it to crash a day later. The third pilot, qualified to fly Max 8s, was deadheading aboard the Oct. However, Soerjanto Tjahjono, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Committee, disputed reports citing recordings of cockpit discussions during that flight. The chairman of Indonesia's transportation safety agency confirmed on Thursday that a third pilot was in the cockpit during the aircraft's next-to-last flight as the flight crew struggled to keep the plane aloft. Ride-along pilot solves issues on penultimate flight The report also did not include data from the cockpit voice recorder, which was not recovered from the ocean floor until January.įrench air accident investigation agency BEA said on Tuesday the flight data recorder in the Ethiopian crash that killed 157 people showed "clear similarities" to the Lion Air disaster. The cause of the Lion Air crash has not been determined, but the preliminary report mentioned the Boeing system, a faulty, recently replaced sensor and the airline's maintenance and training. Boeing 737 Max grounding prompts Air Canada to suspend financial outlook.Ethiopian Airlines flight recording shows 'clear similarity' to Lion Air crash.The Weekly looks at issues pilots have reported about Boeing's plane automation system: Reuters did not have access to the recording or transcript. The three sources discussed them on condition of anonymity. It is the first time the voice recorder contents from the Lion Air flight have been made public. Investigators examining the Indonesian crash are considering how a computer ordered the plane to dive in response to data from a faulty sensor and whether the pilots had enough training to respond appropriately to the emergency, among other factors. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and other regulators grounded the model last week after a second deadly accident in Ethiopia. The investigation into the crash, which killed all 189 people aboard in October, has taken on new relevance as the U.S. The pilots of a doomed Lion Air Boeing 737 Max 8 scoured a handbook as they struggled to understand why the jet was lurching downwards, but ran out of time before it hit the water, three people with knowledge of the cockpit voice recorder contents said.
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