Originally Posted by
jimjim1
"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."
That's a somewhat ambiguous statement. Clearly the sensor was deemed (or at least suspected) to be defective at the time it was removed (otherwise why bother?).
So it's not clear whether the comment refers to that assessment, or to the result of subsequent examination by the manufacturer.