Before it plunged into the Java Sea, Lion Air's Boeing 737 Max's sensor was worked on at a Flordia facility, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.
Investigators in Indonesia, where Lion Air Flight JT610 originated shortly before it plunged into the Java Sea, are looking into an XTRA Aerospace facility in Miramar, Florida, which had previously worked on the plane's angle-of-attack sensor before the crash. That's according to a briefing prepared for the country's parliament, Bloomberg reported.
The angle of attack sensor has come under scrutiny in both the Lion Air investigation as well as that of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302 five months later. In tandem with the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System or MCAS, the sensors lie at the heart of the investigations into the two similar crashes. Originally designed to push the plane's nose down if the AOA sensor detected a potential aerodynamic stall, the MCAS is suspected to have been erroneously activated in both crashes.
Bloomberg's report does not say if the Florida shop worked on the Ethiopian Airlines jet which crashed in March.Also on Wednesday, unnamed sources familiar with the investigationthat the pilots on the doomed flight initially responded to the plane pushing its nose down by turning off the automated anti-stall system that is widely thought to have been behind the crash.
Pilots turned a manual wheel that controls the parts of the plane's tail that the MCAS system controls, sources told the WSJ, but they then turned electronic power back on. They then used electric switches to try and raise the plane's nose, but that also reactivated MCAS, continuing to push the plane's nose downwards.In the United States, Boeing is
including the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, which said Tuesday that multiple whistleblowers from the Federal Aviation Administration had come forward alleging that safety inspectors for new planes lacked proper training.
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