Originally Posted by
Mad (Flt) Scientist
Has it been definitively stated that is was the three immediately preceding flights? if it were intermittent over a longer period that's even more insidious.
From USA Today:
"The “black box” data recorder from a crashed Lion Air jet shows its airspeed indicator malfunctioned on its
last four flights, investigators said Monday, just hours after distraught relatives of victims confronted the airline’s co-founder at a meeting organized by officials.
National Transportation Safety Committee chairman Soerjanto Tjahjono said the problem was similar on each of the four flights, including the fatal flight on Oct. 29 in which the plane plunged into the Java Sea minutes after taking off from Jakarta, killing all 189 people on board."
The last four flights were:
Denpasar-Manado 27 Oct
Manado-Denpasar 28 Oct
Denpasar-Jakarta 28 Oct
Jakarta-Pangkal Pinang 29 Oct
Lion Air jet's airspeed indicator malfunctioned on 4 flights