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Mdaz:
The pilots of a doomed Lion Air Boeing 737 Max flight desperately scoured a handbook to find out why the jet was plummeting downwards but ran out of time before it crashed into the Java Sea, killing everyone on board.

According to three people who have heard a cockpit voice recording from the aircraft, the captain and first officer on board the ill-fated flight JT610 searched through checklists in a race against time after the jet warned them it was in a stall and pushed the nose down in response.

It has also emerged that an off-duty pilot riding along in the aircraft just a day earlier helped another crew save the plane from the same issue.

The investigation into the crash in Indonesia in October 2018, which killed all 189 people on board, has taken on new relevance since the model was grounded last week after a second deadly accident in Ethiopia on 10 March.

According to a preliminary report issued in November, the first officer on board the Lion Air flight last year reported a “flight control problem” to air traffic control just two minutes after take-off and said the pilots intended to maintain an altitude of 5,000 feet.

The captain, who was at the controls, asked the first officer to check the quick reference handbook, which contains checklists for abnormal events, the first source with knowledge of the cockpit recording said.

For the next nine minutes, the jet warned the pilots it was in a stall and pushed the nose down in response.

The captain fought to climb, but the computer, still incorrectly sensing a stall, continued to push the nose down using the plane’s trim system, which usually ensures the aircraft flies straight and level.

The third source said: “They didn’t seem to know the trim was moving down. They thought only about airspeed and altitude. That was the only thing they talked about.”

The pilots of JT610 remained calm for most of the flight, the three sources told Reuters, and near the end the captain asked the first officer to fly while he checked the manual for a solution.

As the 31-year-old captain tried in vain to find the right procedure in the handbook, the 41-year-old first officer was unable to control the plane, two of the sources said.

“It is like a test where there are 100 questions and when the time is up you have only answered 75,” one of the sources said. “So you panic. It is a time-out condition.”

The Indian-born captain was said to be silent at the end before the plane hit the water, while the Indonesian first officer said “Allahu Akbar”, or “God is greatest”, a common Arabic phrase in the majority-Muslim country that can be used to express shock or distress.


Forensics investigators and recovery teams at the crash site of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302 on 12 March 2019 in Bishoftu, Ethiopia. (Getty Images)
The cause of the crash has not been determined, but a preliminary report mentioned the Boeing system, a faulty, recently replaced sensor, and the airline’s maintenance and training.

Boeing Co declined to comment while the investigation is ongoing, but the manufacturer said there was a documented procedure to handle the situation.

A different crew on the same plane the evening before encountered the same problem but solved it after running through three checklists.

However they did not pass on all of the information about the problems they encountered to the next crew, the November report said.

Two of the sources said a captain at Lion Air’s full-service sister carrier, Batik Air, was riding along in the cockpit and told the crew how to disable the malfunctioning flight-control system and save the plane.

His presence on that flight, first reported by Bloomberg, was not disclosed in the preliminary report.

The report also did not include data from the cockpit voice recorder, which was not recovered from the ocean floor until January.

French air accident investigation agency BEA said on Tuesday the flight data recorder in the Ethiopian crash that killed 157 people earlier this month showed “clear similarities” to the Lion Air disaster.

Since the Lion Air crash, Boeing has been pursuing a software upgrade to change how much authority is given to the Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS – a new anti-stall system developed for the 737 MAX.

Soerjanto Tjahjono, head of Indonesian investigation agency KNKT, said the report could be released in July or August as authorities attempted to speed up the inquiry in the wake of the Ethiopian crash.

On Wednesday, he declined to comment on the cockpit voice recorder contents, saying they had not been made public.

iammo:
Minimum wage affects junior staffs only olodo rabata, that's why senior worker are negotiating theirs with FG.

ASUU negotiation doesnt concern NASU,

So you see why FG negiotiation with senior staff shouldnt cause wailing, except from morrrons

Lovemaester:
u screamed for a penalty, like you were expecting him not to score, the bar so low for ronaldo

Ocallen:
It shall remain a mystery.

projet:
winner between Ajax vs juventus will meet winner between Liverpool vs fc Porto

winner between Tottenham vs man city meet winner between Manchester United vs Barcelona all in semi final

my potential semi final prediction
Liverpool vs juventus
Tottenham vs Manchester United

Olamsoh:
Getting married in November but sometimes feel like there’s something wrong, My fiancée has a communication problem I am on Abuja, she’s in Ijebu Ode.
She does some very wrong things but once I try to correct her, she plays the victim and makes it look like I don’t see anything good in what she does. My fiancée can travel from home back to work and get there by 2pm and not call till 9pm. She doesn’t see anything wrong in it. You can pour your heart out with a 20page love message and she will reply u 5 hrs later and the reply will be like a bucket of cold water to the very hot fire you were burning. We can be having a conversation and once it doesn’t favor her, she goes mute.
Her solution to solving problems is mute
Then she never updates me on anything except I ask. There are sometimes I feel like the least most important person and yet she feels I overreact when I say it out. Her view of how things should be is weird and sometimes annoying, she doesn’t listen. It just worries me that some of these things might be a problem later cos I have chosen to ignore some of them since I am beginning to seem like a nagger. I sometimes feel it’s because there’s a show off too much affection and it’s being taken for granted. I know this sounds very cliché and very stupid but I love the girl very much.
What do you suggest I do now?

Create a thread in the romance section.
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decatalyst:
Oga you don't have a point!


Why come out to get accredited if you can't stay in queue to eventually vote? It doesn't add up!

Well, maybe vote accreditation means another thing sha!

What do I even know sef? Lemme go back to sleep.

divo:
Will juventus still win?

abbaapple:



No more chatting with Atiefku again Affonja will always be an Affonja! If you know you know! That reminds me! The mode that banned NwaAmaikpe should please help the guy life and unbanned him! The guy is on Twitter displaying his mandness even a single like he doesn't get! I dont know if it's Nairaland frustration that's doing him Oho o!

5thElement:
Remembered in SS1/SS2. The Chemistry teacher was the very definition of a goddess. Perfect figure, perfect face, perfect teeth, perfect diction, perfect complexion, perfect skin texture. Perfect.

That year all the guys in my set failed Chemistry.

I guess we were all busy grinning stupidly at her whenever she entered our class.

Thank heavens it was just for a year. Wonder where she is now.

davodyguy:
JUST IN: Atiku Fails To Defeat Buhari In Any Of 34 Kano LGAs So Far | Sahara Reporters

So far, PDP has not secured a single victory in any of the collated 34 LGAs in Kano State.

kwadochi:
I think that PCP is a scam to make PDP supporters mistakenly vote for PDP. I am 100% sure most votes from PCP where meant for PDP

id911:
I understand you perfectly. If Atiku wins FCT and Buhari fails to get at least 25% there, Atiku will win even if Buhari has the highest number of total votes cast. That's why Buhari and his men are pressurizing INEC to cancel FCT elections

MaziOmenuko:
Dude commited a political suicide by joining the APC. I wonder what he was thinking. If it was the fear of EFCC, his compatriots such as Fayose, Saraki, FFK etc all went thru it and still survived. Maybe he was truly eyeing the senate presidency seat; but that would have been political naive of him to think the APC would have handed it to him even if he won his senatorial seat.

nwagbaradav:
Still recycling same old peoples....

Leaders of tomorrow... ��‍♂️

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