What did the pilots do a few seconds before the plane crash in Indonesia? | Chronic

Last October, a newly launched Boeing 737 MAX 8 in a low-cost airline named Lion Air, crashed into the Java Sea a few minutes after taking off from Jakarta, the Indonesian capital. The control tower lost contact with the pilots 13 minutes after takeoff, which took place at 6:20 am.

Five months later, it was learned that the pilots were trying to find in the flight manual an answer to the reason why the nose of the aircraft was automatically tilted down, but they did not reached the hour and the plane crashed on the coast. The data comes from sources close to the contents of the voice recorder of the aircraft that crashed.

When he detected a flight control problem in Lion Air's Boeing 737 MAX 8 systems, the captain, while struggling for the stabilization of the aircraft, asked the co-pilot to verify the manual containing information on possible abnormal events. But the automated anti-lock system lowered the nose of the aircraft and did not respond to the indications.

This was the beginning of the end of this model aircraft since in early March, a Boeing 737 from the Ethiopian Airlines company had fallen to Ethiopia, leaving a train of dead. After these two incidents, several countries have abandoned this model aircraft of their fleet, prohibiting them from flying. Argentina is one of them.

The office of research and badysis of French civil aviation safety said this week have found "clear similarities" between the disaster of the Indonesian company and the loss of Boeing 737 MAX 8 Ethiopian Airlines, which was crushed on October 10th. Walk in Ethiopia with 157 people on board.

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