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Few details were released, but the ministry said it had looked over half a dozen jets so far and discovered that one had a problem linked to its cockpit display while another had a glitch in a jet stabilisation system. Both Lion-owned planes required new components, it said. Aviation analyst Dudi Sudibyo said the cockpit display issue could include a speed-and-altitude glitch reported in the doomed jet.
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: solidshot
It could also just be a bad display. It's a leap to go from "there's a cockpit display issue" to "it had the same issues".
The committee`s Flight Accident Investigator, Ony Soerjo Wibowo, stated at a press conference here on Friday that the FDR, one of the black boxes which recorded flight information such as speed, altitude, and reading of aircraft avionics, was analyzed by the KNKT team.
Although the KNKT had received an offer from the United States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), as the country of origin of the Boeing aircraft manufacturing company, Wibowo stressed that Indonesia had a facility capable of extracting FDR and CVR data and information.
Few details were released, but the ministry said it had looked over half a dozen jets so far and discovered that one had a problem linked to its cockpit display while another had a glitch in a jet stabilisation system. Both Lion-owned planes required new components, it said. Aviation analyst Dudi Sudibyo said the cockpit display issue could include a speed-and-altitude glitch reported in the doomed jet.
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: Woody510
Investigators are working with the NTSB and Boeing to come up with an inspection for the other Max aircraft in Indonesia.
Soerjanto Tjahjono, chief of the NTSC, told media yesterday that “we have said there’s a technical problem but we also want to know what they were discussing in the cockpit and what they were doing. The focus is on the aircraft’s speed and altitude sensors made up of the Pitot Tube and Static Port which compare air pressure to give flight data.
The damage was revealed after data had been downloaded from the plane's flight data recorder, KNKT chief Soerjanto Tjahjono told reporters, adding that it was asking Boeing and U.S. authorities what action to take to prevent similar problems on this type of plane around the world.
"We are formulating, with NTSB and Boeing, detailed inspections regarding the airspeed indicator," he said, referring to the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board.