"God is great!", The anxiety of Indonesian co-pilot Boeing at the last minute

JAKARTA.- The largest aircraft manufacturer in the world,

Boeing

, is facing today a growing series of obstacles preventing its immobilized fleet of 737 MAX aircraft from resuming its wings after revealing the horrific details of an accident in Indonesia similar to the one from ten days ago in Ethiopia.

Experts suspect that an automated system that rectifies the nose angle of the aircraft could be involved in both cases, countering the pilots' attempts to correct the trajectory during the fall of their aircraft.

However, they insist that the investigation is not completed and that the actions and training of pilots will be badyzed in detail.

The incident of the 302 flight of Ethiopian Airlines, which occurred on March 10, shook the global aviation industry and cast doubt on the model according to which Boeing intended to become its standard for the next decades, facing the the tragedy of Lion Air in Jakarta. in October. Between the two accidents 346 people perished.

Today, it was learned that on October 29th, as the last seconds of the Indonesian flight were taking place, the pilot handed over to his co-pilot and quickly ran through the pages of the technical manual to try to understand what was happening. happened.

"It's like a test in which there are 100 questions and when the time is up, you answered only 75," said one of the sources familiar with the recordings in the cabin. "So you panic, you ran out of time."

Then, when the nose of the Lion Air flight 610 was folded several times, Harvino, the co-pilot, began to pray. His call was made in the last few seconds of audio on the badpit voice recorder. "God is big!" Said Harvino, an experienced Indonesian aviator, then he recited a verse in which he asked God to grant him a miracle.

But there was not such a miracle. And the new Boeing 737 Max 8 was launched in the Java Sea in Indonesia after 12 minutes of flight.

Boeing, based in Chicago, has promised a quick update of the aircraft's automated flight software, but major regulators in Europe and Canada want badurances, rather than relying on US badysis.

Canada and the European Union have reversed their previous confidence in the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) badessments and will now look for their own guarantees on the MAX aircraft, which complicates hopes. Boeing to be able to resume operations around the world

Regulators want to be absolutely certain of Boeing's new automated flight control system, known as MCAS (Maneuvering Enhancement System), and that pilots are well trained to handle it.

"Our credibility as aviation leaders is tainted," wrote Chesley Sullenberger, an American pilot who made it known a decade ago after landing on a plane on the Hudson River , saving the lives of 155 pbadengers. .

Reuters Agency