Indonesia holds press conference on Lion Air’s flight crash
Indonesian authorities on March 21 held a press conference to provide the media with information related to the Lion Air’s flight crash in October last year.
Jakarta (VNA) – Indonesian authorities on March 21held a press conference to provide the media with information related to theLion Air’s flight crash in October last year.
Thecrash of a Boeing 737 MAX aircraft that killed all 189 passengers and crewmembers on board drew media’s great attention again after a second deadlyaccident in Ethiopia last week prompted regulators to ground the worldwidefleet of the aircraft.
Pilotsof both flights lost control over the aircraft only several minutes after takingoff.
The Lion Air’s jet, a Boeing 737 MAX 8, was enroute from Jakarta to Pangkakpinang in Bangka Belitung province off Sumatraisland when it crashed into the sea on October 29, 2018. This was the worstaviation accident that Indonesia has met since 1997.
Meanwhile, flight ET 302 of Ethiopian Airlinescrashed on March 10 near Bishoftu town, 62 km southeast of the Ethiopiancapital city of Addis Ababa, killing all 149 passengers and eight crew membersaboard. The ill-fated plane was a Boeing 737-800 Max.
The plane left Bole airport in Addis Ababa at8:38 am (local time) before losing contact with the control tower just sixminutes later.-VNA
Indonesia’s Lion Air announced on January 3 that the carrier had ended its search for the second black box voice recorder of its Boeing 737 Max jet which crashed into the Java Sea on October 29, killing all 189 people aboard.
Indonesia has found the missing cockpit voice recorder from a Lion Air jet that crashed into the Java Sea in late October, killing all 189 people on board.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) on March 12 banned the use of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft in its airspace following a deadly Ethiopia plane crash at weekend.
Indonesia has permanently banned all Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft from serving in its airspace, Indonesian Minister of Transportation Budi Karya Sumadi said on March 18.
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A Lion Air plane (Source: Airline Ratings) 
