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PT LION MENTARI AIRLINES (LION AIR) - JAKARTA. Indonesia will issue a preliminary report on Nov. 28 or 29 on its investigation into the crash of a Lion Air plane that killed 189 people on board, Soerjanto Tjahjono, head of the transportation safety committee (KNKT), said on Monday.
“One month after the accident, KNKT will issue a preliminary report and we will publish it over the internet,” he told a news conference in Jakarta.
KNKT was still looking for the cockpit voice recorder from the Boeing 737 MAX, he said. The agency has already downloaded information from the flight data recorder which was found a few days after the Oct. 29 crash.
Indonesia authorities said on Saturday they had stopped the search for victims of a plane crash that killed all 189 people on board, but would keep looking for the Lion Air flight’s second black box, the cockpit voice recorder.
“There is nowhere left to search and we have stopped finding victims’ bodies,” Muhammad Syaugi, the head of the national search and rescue agency (Basarnas) told media. “We will limit our operations to monitoring.”
The nearly new Boeing Co. 737 MAX passenger plane crashed into the sea on Oct. 29 just minutes after taking off from Jakarta en route to Bangka island near Sumatra.
U.S. agency to mandate Boeing bulletin issued after Lion Air
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday it will require airlines to follow a safety bulletin issued by Boeing Co reminding pilots how to handle erroneous data from a key sensor in the wake of last week’s Indonesian jetliner crash.
The U.S. planemaker said earlier that investigators probing the Lion Air crash off the coast of Indonesia, in which all 189 on board were killed, had found that one of the “angle of attack” sensors on the brand-new Boeing 737 MAX jet had provided erroneous data.
The FAA said it plans to mandate the bulletin by issuing an airworthiness directive and “will take further appropriate actions depending on the results of the investigation.”
