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Lion Air incident: main suspect of the "defective" speed indicator

Same failure in the last 4 flights of the plane

The Boeing B-737 MAX 8 aircraft of Lion Air crashed on Monday last week in Indonesia shortly after take-off from the Jakarta airport -according to the first findings of the commission of inquiry- would have had the same exact problem in the last 4 flights, namely the incorrect speed reporting. After the last take-off, however, something went even further, leading to the death of all 189 people who...

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Jakarta, Indonesia, 11/05/2018 13:35
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AccidentsLion Air incident: no longer detected the signal from the missing black box

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An Indonesian man has sued the aerospace company Boeing, claiming that the crash of Lion Air's B-737 MAX 8 plane -where 189 people died- was caused by a design problem not communicated to the airlines.... more

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