{"id":298080,"date":"2019-10-26T11:54:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T06:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=298080"},"modified":"2019-10-26T12:01:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T06:31:31","slug":"boeing-design-flaw-a-factor-in-lion-air-crash-indonesian-probe-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/boeing-design-flaw-a-factor-in-lion-air-crash-indonesian-probe-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing design flaw a factor in Lion Air crash: Indonesian probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JAKARTA: A design flaw, inadequate pilot training and poor flight crew performance contributed to a Boeing jet crashing in Indonesia last year, killing all 189 people on board, investigators said Friday. The Lion Air disaster was followed months later by a second crash &#8212; involving the same model of aircraft &#8212; when an Ethiopian Airlines plane went down with 157 people aboard, leading to the global grounding of Boeing&#8217;s entire 737 MAX fleet.<\/p>\n<p>Indian national Bhavye Suneja, the pilot of the plane, was also killed in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The crashes had thrown a spotlight on the MAX model&#8217;s Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), an anti-stall mechanism, that pilots in both planes had struggled to control as the jets careered downwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAKARTA: A design flaw, inadequate pilot training and poor flight crew performance contributed to a Boeing jet crashing in Indonesia last year, killing all 189 people on board, investigators said Friday. The Lion Air disaster was followed months later by a second crash &#8212; involving the same model of aircraft &#8212; when an Ethiopian Airlines plane went down with 157 people aboard, leading to the global grounding of Boeing&#8217;s entire 737 MAX fleet. Indian national Bhavye Suneja, the pilot of the plane, was also killed in the crash. The crashes had thrown a spotlight on the MAX model&#8217;s Manoeuvring Characteristics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}