Searching for victims of the Lion Air accident arrested

Indonesian authorities announced Saturday that the search for victims of the plane crash with a Boeing 737 MAX 8 from Indonesian Lion Air had stopped. According to the Reuters news agency

According to Muhammad Syaugi, head of the National Agency for Search and Rescue, there are more relevant places that have not yet been searched. And in all the places where it was still researched, his team has not found new bodies for some time. According to Syaugi, 77 victims have been identified so far.

Defective sensor

A nearly new aircraft from Lion Air sank in the Java Sea shortly after takeoff on October 29th. All 189 occupants were killed. The Indonesian authorities suspect that a specific sensor has a defect that would have caused erroneous information about the airflow. This can lead to cover, also called stall, where the wings lose their carrying capacity and the device starts to fall too quickly or even falls from the sky.

Boeing released Wednesday after the accident a warning that the sensor could also cause problems on other 737 MAX 8 aircraft. This would indeed be one of the sensors controlling the aerodynamics of the wings of the plane and the flight sequence. He sometimes used wrong data. In addition, the computer system can take control of the aircraft from the pilot by way of correction and switch to autopilot – after which the aircraft uses a dive.

Boeing has already explained to airlines and pilots how to prevent these problems. 19659003] The cockpit voice recorder is still not found

In early November, one of the two black boxes of the plane had already escaped from the sea. This concerned the data logger of the aircraft. However, the black box with the conversations in the cockpit has not been found yet. The search in this cockpit voice recorder in the Java Sea is complicated by a slowly decreasing sound signal.

New, more sensitive equipment is now being used to find this second black box. Because it is only with the data from the cockpit voice recorder that the cause of the accident can be determined with absolute certainty.