Originally Posted by
AndyJS
"The jet that crashed in Indonesia flew erratically during a flight the previous evening and experienced a "technical problem", according to flight tracking website FlightRadar24.After taking off from Denpasar on the holiday island of Bali on Sunday evening - the day before the crash - the Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX jet reported unusual variations in altitude and airspeed at the beginning of the flight.This included an 875ft drop over 27 seconds, when it would normally be ascending, before stabilising and flying on to Jakarta"
https://news.sky.com/story/lion-air-...crash-11539864
The Sky News article you cite conflates a number of different sources, including a
story that originally appeared in Detik that has since been retracted. Sky News, for example, quotes Conchita Caroline — who, it's now been confirmed, flew on a different aircraft (same route, same airline, different time), not PQ-LQP. I've looked over the ADS-B data from JT43 on the previous night, and there was indeed a loss of a few hundred feet during climb. So keep this kind of thing in mind while considering what parts of the Sky article (or any article) you find credible, and which should be disregarded. English-language media sometimes have trouble keeping up with the Indonesian-language media on fast-moving stories like this, and some of the rules they play by are different.