[spetznaz]

Second 737-Max crash in 5 months. I called the head of a private equity company I invested in that is in Ethiopia who said the conditions were ‘nice and sunny.’ The plane was four months old.

Did they ever find out what went wrong with the LION Air crash that also used the same plane? Like that one, this one also had weird speed readings.

[jalisco555]

The investigation into the LION crash is still ongoing but the early reports certainly indicated a possible design flaw.

[Moonman62]

From Wiki:

On 5 November, the NTSC announced that Flight 610 was still intact when it crashed into the sea and struck at high speed, citing the relatively small size of the pieces of debris. The impact was so powerful that the strongest part of the aircraft was obliterated. The NTSC also stated that the engines of Flight 610 were still running when it crashed into the sea, indicated by the high RPM. Further examination on the aircraft’s instruments revealed that one of the aircraft’s airspeed indicators had malfunctioned for its last four flights.

On 7 November, the NTSC confirmed that there had been problems with Flight 610’s angle of attack (AoA) sensors. The aircraft suffered an airspeed indicator problem for its last four flights, including the flight to Denpasar. Thinking that it would fix the problem, the engineers in Bali then replaced one of the aircraft’s AoA sensors, but the problem persisted on the penultimate flight, from Denpasar to Jakarta. Just minutes after takeoff, the aircraft abruptly dived. The crew of that flight, however, had managed to control the aircraft and decided to fly at a lower than normal altitude. They then managed to land the aircraft safely and recorded a twenty-degree difference between the readings of the left AoA sensor and the right sensor. NTSC chief Soerjanto Tjahjono told the press that future reporting or actions, enacted to prevent similar problems on similar aircraft, would be decided by Boeing and US aviation authorities.

[Tea Party Terrorist]

Where are the “If it aint Boeing I aint going” crowd?

[pepsionice]

Isn’t there some weird situation with the Addis Ababa altitude....like it’s 7,000 above sea level?

[csvset]

I think they’re still looking into the LION crash, from what I’ve read here, Lion Air Crash Investigation Shows Troubling Signs in Boeing's New 737 Max the plane wants to pitch the nose down, not good during takeoff. Reports are indicating the Ethiopia flight 'had unstable vertical speed' - Swedish flight-tracking website flightradar24 said

[caltaxed]

Earlier problems where 737s had a design problem with the rudders:

During the 1990s, a series of rudder issues on Boeing 737 aircraft resulted in multiple incidents. In two separate accidents, pilots lost control of their Boeing 737 aircraft due to a sudden and unexpected movement of the rudder, and the resulting crashes killed everyone aboard. A total of 157 people aboard the two aircraft were killed.