Lion Air families unsatisfied with final report briefing

Record ID: 1438329

  • Title: Lion Air families unsatisfied with final report briefing
  • Date: 23rd October 2019
  • Summary: JAKARTA, INDONESIA (OCTOBER 23, 2019) (REUTERS) ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** RELATIVES OF INDONESIA'S LION AIR FLIGHT JT610 CRASH VICTIMS WAITING AT TRANSPORT MINISTRY BEFORE BRIEFING VARIOUS OF RELATIVES REGISTERING AT COUNTER VARIOUS OF RELATIVES WAITING AT LOBBY ARRIVAL OF RELATIVES OF FLIGHT JT610 PILOT BHAVYE SUNEJA (BLACK FLORA SHIRT) GARIMA SETHI, WIFE
  • Embargoed: 6th November 2019 09:41
  • Keywords: Indonesian crash Lion Air families final report JT610
  • Location: JAKARTA, INDONESIA
  • City: JAKARTA, INDONESIA
  • Country: Indonesia
  • Topics: Air Accidents,Disaster/Accidents
  • Reuters ID: LVA001B2BFSCN
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Next-of-kin of the victims killed in Lion Air JT610 crash said they were not satisfied with explanations by Indonesian investigators in a briefing on Wednesday (October 23) ahead of the release of a final report.
    Investigators told victims' families in the closed-door briefing that mechanical and design issues contributed to the crash of the Boeing 737 MAX jet last October.
    Contributing factors to the crash of the jet, which killed all 189 on board, included incorrect assumptions on how an anti-stall device called the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) functioned and how pilots would react, slides in the presentation acquired by Reuters showed.
    Relatives of the victims at the briefing in Jakarta expressed disappointment that direct responsibility wasn't assigned. One said sanction should be applied to the airline.
    Contact with Lion Air flight 610 was lost 13 minutes after it took off on October 29, 2018 from the capital, Jakarta, heading north to Pangkal Pinang.
    The Boeing 737 MAX airplane had suffered a sequence of problems in cockpit readings since October 26, culminating in a decision to change the angle-of-attack sensor before the penultimate flight from Denpasar to Jakarta.
    The final report will be released publicly on Friday (October 25).
    (Production: Tommy Ardiansyah, Angie Teo)
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