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Boeing 737 MAX ontwerpfouten gelinkt aan Indonesische crash
October 24, 2019 - Fouten in het ontwerp van de Boeing’s 737 MAX hebben volgens Indonesische onderzoekers bijgedragen aan de crash van een toestel van Lion Air in oktober 2018, waarbij alle 189 mensen aan boord omkwamen.
In a presentation to victims’ families ahead of the release of a final crash report on Friday, the Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee criticised the jet’s certification, saying that a now infamous flight-control mechanism was approved based on incorrect assumptions, Bloomberg said.
The Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) has been implicated separately in the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max in March that claimed 157 lives.
A failure to share vital information with pilots and airline maintenance stumbles also contributed to the crash of Lion Air Flight 610, investigators concluded.
- Lion Air families told 737 MAX design flaws linked to deadly crash (Reuters)
- Boeing MAX design, airline maintenance faulted in Lion Air crash
- Flawed analysis, failed oversight: How Boeing, FAA certified the suspect 737 MAX flight control system (The Seattle Times)
- Lion Air Flight JT610 (Flightradar24)
- Lion Air crash investigation faults Boeing 737 Max design and oversight (CNN)