Lack of information on how to deal with malfunctions in jet’s flight-control systems also contributed to last year’s accident. FMTNews Boeing Indonesia
The recovered wreckage of the plane’s engine is unloaded from an Indonesian navy ship.
The controversial MCAS system, which activates when the plane appears to be at risk of stalling, was also implicated in an Ethiopian Airlines crash in March that claimed 157 lives. Today’s presentation in Jakarta indicated that the lack of guidance on MCAS made it harder for crews to respond to automated actions by the system, while a replacement sensor installed on the plane wasn’t properly calibrated during an earlier repair, and that this error hadn’t been detected.
“Going back to revisit the design itself has tremendous ramifications for Boeing – both in terms of cost and liability,” he said. “It can be assumed that Boeing will contest this and point to software as the flaw.” Recently published messages between two senior Boeing test pilots show they had misgivings about the system during the jet’s certification in 2016, with one describing it as egregious.
A different crew was on board the following day. Flight 610 took off from Jakarta at 6:20am on Monday Oct 29, heading to the tourist destination of Pangkal Pinang, off Sumatra’s east coast.
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