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Old 2nd Apr 2019, 18:00
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Originally Posted by infrequentflyer789
NYT article as of today is the first I have seen:

No more details and that is the only report, Indonesian leak, maybe a pinch of salt needed.
Leak? More a reported statement by "Mr. Nurcahyo, the KNKT head of air accident investigations"

"Mr. Nurcahyo, the KNKT head of air accident investigations, ...

After the crash, the replaced angle of attack sensor was shipped to Minnesota, home of Rosemount Aerospace, the Boeing subcontractor that made it, Mr. Nurcahyo said. He and other Indonesian investigators went to Minneapolis in December. The sensor, he said, was deemed defective."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/02/w...-lion-air.html
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