Posted on 03/20/2019 11:24:06 AM PDT by centurion316
The day before a brand new Lion Air jet crashed into the sea shortly after taking off from Indonesia's capital city last fall -- likely due to an equipment malfunction -- an off-duty pilot reportedly helped save the aircraft when it began to dive.
The extra pilot was on the flight from Bali to Jakarta and was seated in the cockpit jumpseat when the crew of the Boeing 737 Max 8 struggled for control of the aircraft, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.
During the flight, the jet displayed unusual variations in altitude and airspeed in its first several minutes, Reuters previously reported. Some of those variations included an 875-foot drop over 27 seconds when the plane would typically be ascending, before stabilizing and flying on to Jakarta.
As the jetliner was in a dive, the extra pilot figured out what was wrong and told the crew how to disable a malfunctioning flight-control system to save the aircraft, two people familiar with Indonesia's investigation told Bloomberg.
The crew was told to cut power to the motor causing the plane's nose to dive down, which is part of a checklist that all pilots are required to memorize, according to Bloomberg.
Hours later with a different crew on board, the same aircraft crashed into the Java Sea after takeoff, killing all 189 aboard.
Officials investigating the Lion Air crash previously said they were looking into the plane’s anti-stall system, which was engaged and repeatedly pushing down the aircraft’s nose prior to it crashing into the sea. The Indonesia safety committee report also said the plane had had multiple failures on previous flights and hadn’t been properly repaired.
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Flying them were like putting on a favored old warm coat, flew two old D-Day birds N115SA and N74589, I believe now they are both at the IWM at Duxford England.
[3rd World Airline = 3rd World Training]
However, Boeing is on the hook for a critical system failure. I expect a final tab in the billions, a good chunk of which will be out-of-pocket for Boeing because it falls under the deductible. Its insurance premiums are about to skyrocket.
Why would an aircraft with apparent malfunction be allowed to remain in service without an inspection? Is this negligence on the part of Lion Air?
How many non max8 737 air planes have crashed in this manor?
There is your answer as to who is most to blame. It doesn’t matter much that “Tom Cruise” may have been able to save the plane. A lot of people are dead, And Boeing is at least 90% to blame.
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