Lion Air plane crash off the coast of Indonesia

[Sylvia]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46054114

A "black box" recorder from Lion Air flight JT 610 has been found by divers off the coast of Indonesia.

The plane, carrying 189 people, crashed soon after taking off from Jakarta, the Indonesian capital, on Monday.

It plummeted into the Java Sea - no survivors have been found, nor has the body of the Boeing 737.

There is as yet no indication of what caused the crash but the aircraft is believed to have experienced technical problems on its previous flight.

The plane was making a one-hour journey to the western city of Pangkal Pinang when it went down.

The pilot had asked air traffic control for permission to turn back to the airport but then contact was lost.

Report on the recovery efforts to date: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lion-air-plane-crash-doomed-black-box-diver-today-2018-11-01/

 

[ballettmaus]

There is as yet no indication of what caused the crash but the aircraft is believed to have experienced technical problems on its previous flight.

I don't know where my dad got the information from (I would imagine WaPo or a German equivalent or the radio), but he said that it did have technical problems and that the data had been transmitted to Boeing. Lion Air claimed that they had fixed the problem but the plane had been on the ground for only 6 hours.

 

[AxelAnnie]

This is a nightmare. Lion Air had had a troubled Safety record.

NY Times
This is a low-cost airline, with a bad safety record.

In 2004, a Lion Air jet crashed in Central Java Province, killing 25 people. In 2002, one of its planes crashed on takeoff in Riau Province on Sumatra Island, and in 2006, a Lion Air jet crashed after landing in Yogyakarta, in Central Java, although no one was killed in the 2002 and 2006 incidents. The low-cost carrier has also had multiple incidents in which planes have skidded off, run off or over run airport runways.

Prayers for the people who died, their families, and their country.

 

[Sylvia]

Indicator Malfunctioned On Lion Air Jet's Final 4 Flights, 'Black Box' Data Show: https://www.npr.org/2018/11/05/6643...-air-jets-final-4-flights-black-box-data-show

The Lion Air plane that crashed into the ocean last week had been experiencing a "technical problem" with its airspeed indicator, and the gauge had malfunctioned on the jet's final four flights, investigators said Monday.
That included three flights that landed safely, as well as the deadly crash on Oct. 29, when flight JT610 crashed minutes after takeoff from Jakarta, Indonesia, with 189 people on board.

Tearful relatives of Indonesia jet crash victims demand answers: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...et-crash-victims-demand-answers-idUSKCN1NA0L7

The search effort has involved 151 divers, five helicopters, 61 ships, ranging from fishing boats to ships with advanced sonar scanners, as well as underwater drones.
An Indonesian rescue diver died during the search for a second black box, parts of the plane, and human remains on the muddy seabed.
The head of KNKT Surjanto Tjahjono has said 69 hours of recorded data from 19 flights, including the one that crashed, had been downloaded successfully from a partly damaged flight data recorder recovered on Thursday.
As of Monday, 138 body bags containing human remains had been recovered and handed to police for forensic identification, yet only 14 victims had been identified.