Originally Posted by
Longtimer
The sensor that was removed in Denpasar has since been sent to NTSC offices in Jakarta, before being transferred to Boeing's headquarters in Chicago for further investigation. Investigators plan to reconstruct the flight and study the faults related to the sensor using Boeing's engineering simulator in Seattle.
Originally Posted by
A Squared
I'm not sure that is correct. The Airplane was written up for "IAS or ALT disagree shown after takeoff" and "Feel Diff Press LT ILL" (Feel Differential Pressure Light Illuminated, I think) If I've followed the technical discussion correctly (and I may not have) , both of those may have been caused by bad AoA data, and there may never have been an actual problem with the Airspeed.
I would be very surprised if any fault is found with the removed sensor, given that its replacement clearly didn't rectify the issue.