What We Know About the Lion Air Flight 610 Crash

In an era when a commercial flight is more likely to be automated – usually a process in an aircraft, it is possible to know that it is possible to experience a collision with experienced pilots –

] But in the case of Lion Air Flight 610, a Boeing 737 Max 8 that plummeted into the Java Sea shortly after takeoff from the Indonesian capital in late October, investigators believed those systems may have been involved.

The plane, which was practically new, crashed minutes after takeoff, killing all 189 people on board. The crash has been questioned by the Indonesian Airlines, Boeing's commercial aircraft. Here is what we know.

What happened?

On the morning of Monday, Oct. 29, Lion Air Flight 610 took off from Jakarta 's Soekarno – Hatta International Airport at 6:21 am the small city of Pangkal Pinang, the provincial capital of a small island in the Java Sea. The flight should have taken just over an hour.

Minutes after takeoff, air traffic controllers and requested a return to Jakarta. The plane never issued a mayday distress call and did not turn back. Instead, it is banked to the left, made significant altitude shifts and then dropped sharply. The plane was at an altitude of about 5,000 feet when its final descent began, according to which Flight Radar 24, which tracks global air traffic. By 6:32, communications with the plane had ceased.

The plane plunged into the sea 11 minutes after takeoff, hitting the water with such force that some metal fixtures on the aircraft disintegrated.

It was the first crash of the Max 8, an updated version of the best-selling Boeing 737.

What do investigators say?

The investigation is in its early stages , so-called black box (actually it is actually orange to make it easier to find after a crash). It was recovered from the seabed last week. A second data recorder has not been recovered

Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee, which is leading the investigation, said that inaccurate airspeed readings had been recorded on the plane leading up to the crash. The airspeed is measured from so-called pitot tubes in the nose of the aircraft.

Investigators also have focused on evidence suggesting that they are operating on the plane of attackers. It is not clear whether there is a problem in the sensors, in the computer technology that processes their data or somewhere else in the system. The sensors are instruments on the plane's exterior that gauge the angle of the oncoming wind as it comes across the aircraft. They can help determine whether they are stalling – with their nose pointed at the wrong angle for their current speed to maintain lift. If the aircraft's computers detect a stall, they can trigger electric motors that cause the tail to rise and the nose to pitch downward.

Haryo Satmiko, the deputy chief of the Indonesian safety agency, said on Wednesday that he had discussed the possibility of flying down the air, and said "this case This article was written for the benefit of the world, and it was written in the English language.

Soerjanto Tjahjono, the head of the safety agency, said during a briefing that it was not clear that there was a problem with this type of aircraft.

"We can not "It said, adding that the Max 8 appeared to have developed a problem with the angle of attack of the sensors after it had changed to the day before the doomed flight. 19659002] In Lion Air 610's final four flights, the plane of repeated problems with its airspeed indicators. Technicians in Bali changed the plane of attack of the day before the crash and the plane was declared in Jakarta. When it arrives there, maintenance crews addressed a problem with the plane's pitot tubes, the external probes that record airspeed.

Boeing acknowledged in a statement statement that the author of an error in the investigation of the plane of attack readings. Erroneous inputs from an angle of attack sensor could have a maximum speed, Boeing said in an advisory to customers. (19659012) Those procedures include switching off the power of the aircraft in the airplane, which is why the aircraft is nose downward. Pulling the plane back from diving the plane of the aircraft

The Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday issued an emergency airworthiness directive by Boeing shown if an "erroneously high" angle of attack It was possible that the "unsafe condition" could be used as a tool for the control of the system.

Where did the investigation go from here?

Further data badyzed from the reenacted box – and from the still-missing one, when found guide investigators piecing together the plane's final moments.

Because the Boeing 737 Max 8 is a new model, aviation experts are concerned that the crash resulted from an unforeseen problem.

John Gadzinski, an aviation expert and president of the Four Winds Aerospace Safety Corp., said that it would be careful in any conclusions, but it is a potential for error .

"There's a chance of an unexpected chance that they would not imagine anything," he said. "Me that's a question that the active investigators and Boeing should be asking now."