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Families Offer Mass Prayer At Sea One Year After Lion Air Crash
Grieving relatives tossed flowers into the sea today where an Indonesian Lion Air jet crashed a year ago, killing all 189 on board, after a final accident report pointed to plane design flaws as a key factor in the disaster.
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"Safety Was Just A Given": Inside Boeing's Boardroom Amid 737 Max Crisis
Before approving plans for a new jetliner called the 737 Max, Boeing's board of directors discussed how quickly and cheaply it could be built to compete with a rival - but the members didn't ask detailed questions about the airplane's safety, according to three people present for the meetings.
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Boeing Sees Me As Its "Piggy Bank", Says Lion Air Co-Founder
The co-founder of Indonesia's Lion Air, one of two airlines that lost passengers and crew in recent crashes involving the 737 MAX, has lashed out at Boeing's handling of the accidents as the potential business fallout from the jet's grounding intensifies.
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"Nobody Heard Us": Wife Of Lion Air's Indian Pilot On Boeing Troubles
Three months after the Lion Air plane her husband was piloting plunged into the sea, Garima Sethi sat with senior officials at the Indonesian carrier in January and urged them - again - to ground the Boeing 737 Max 8.
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Ethiopian Airlines Crash Prompts Comparisons With Lion Air Plane Accident
The crash Sunday morning of a jetliner in Ethiopia bears unmistakable similarities to the October 29 tragedy off the coast of Indonesia involving the same model, prompting questions about whether a design issue that arose during the earlier accident could be to blame.
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Search For Cockpit Voice Recorder Of Crashed Lion Air Jet To Resume
Indonesia will launch a renewed search effort as early as Tuesday to find the cockpit voice recorder from a Lion Air jet that crashed into the Java Sea in October, the head of its accident investigation agency said.
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Lion Air Ends Search For Second Black Box From Crashed Boeing 737
Lion Air said it had ended its search for the second black box voice recorder from its Boeing 737 MAX jet that crashed into the Java Sea on October 29 killing 198 people.
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Indonesia To Deliver First Report On Deadly Lion Air Crash Tomorrow
Indonesian investigators will deliver their first report into the Lion Air crash tomorrow, a month after the brand-new Boeing 737 crashed into the sea, killing all 189 on board in the country's second-worst air disaster.
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"Unsafe Design": Indonesia Plane Crash Victims' Family Sue Boeing
The parents of passengers onboard the Lion Air flight that crashed into the Java Sea last month killing 189 people have sued Boeing for the alleged "unsafe design" of the 737 Max 8 aircraft.
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Lion Air Plane Smashes Into Pole In Indonesia Week After Fatal Crash
A week after an Indonesian low-cost airline Lion Air plane crashed killing 189 people, another of its aircraft was involved in an incident on Thursday, when it smashed into a pole during takeoff from an airport on Sumatra Island.
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Doomed Indonesia Jet Had Damaged Airspeed Indicator On Last 4 Flights
Indonesian accident investigators said an airspeed indicator of a Boeing Co 737 MAX plane that crashed last week was damaged for its last four flights, but U.S. authorities responded cautiously to suggestions of fleet-wide checks.
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Indonesia Removes Lion Air Director After Plane Crash: Reports
Indonesia's transport minister removed on Wednesday the technical director of the Lion Air airline and several of its technicians after the crash of one of its jets with 189 people on board, the Antara news agency reported on Wednesday. "Today we dismiss (the director) from his position and his duty," Budi Karya Sumadi said, citing the accident on ...
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Indonesia Military Chief "Strongly Believes" Crashed Lion Air Plane Found
The smashed fuselage of a crashed Indonesian jetliner may have been found, the country's military chief said Wednesday, two days after the deadly accident feared to have killed 189 people. Using sonar technology, Hadi Tjahjanto said authorities were confident they had pinpointed the location of the Boeing 737-MAX plane that plunged into the sea on ...
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Indonesian Planes Clip Wings At Airport In Latest Scare
Two Indonesian passenger planes clipped wings as they were about to take off from Jakarta's main airport, an airline said Tuesday, the latest accident in the country's beleaguered aviation sector.
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Families Offer Mass Prayer At Sea One Year After Lion Air Crash
Grieving relatives tossed flowers into the sea today where an Indonesian Lion Air jet crashed a year ago, killing all 189 on board, after a final accident report pointed to plane design flaws as a key factor in the disaster.
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"Safety Was Just A Given": Inside Boeing's Boardroom Amid 737 Max Crisis
Before approving plans for a new jetliner called the 737 Max, Boeing's board of directors discussed how quickly and cheaply it could be built to compete with a rival - but the members didn't ask detailed questions about the airplane's safety, according to three people present for the meetings.
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Boeing Sees Me As Its "Piggy Bank", Says Lion Air Co-Founder
The co-founder of Indonesia's Lion Air, one of two airlines that lost passengers and crew in recent crashes involving the 737 MAX, has lashed out at Boeing's handling of the accidents as the potential business fallout from the jet's grounding intensifies.
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"Nobody Heard Us": Wife Of Lion Air's Indian Pilot On Boeing Troubles
Three months after the Lion Air plane her husband was piloting plunged into the sea, Garima Sethi sat with senior officials at the Indonesian carrier in January and urged them - again - to ground the Boeing 737 Max 8.
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Ethiopian Airlines Crash Prompts Comparisons With Lion Air Plane Accident
The crash Sunday morning of a jetliner in Ethiopia bears unmistakable similarities to the October 29 tragedy off the coast of Indonesia involving the same model, prompting questions about whether a design issue that arose during the earlier accident could be to blame.
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Search For Cockpit Voice Recorder Of Crashed Lion Air Jet To Resume
Indonesia will launch a renewed search effort as early as Tuesday to find the cockpit voice recorder from a Lion Air jet that crashed into the Java Sea in October, the head of its accident investigation agency said.
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Lion Air Ends Search For Second Black Box From Crashed Boeing 737
Lion Air said it had ended its search for the second black box voice recorder from its Boeing 737 MAX jet that crashed into the Java Sea on October 29 killing 198 people.
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Indonesia To Deliver First Report On Deadly Lion Air Crash Tomorrow
Indonesian investigators will deliver their first report into the Lion Air crash tomorrow, a month after the brand-new Boeing 737 crashed into the sea, killing all 189 on board in the country's second-worst air disaster.
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"Unsafe Design": Indonesia Plane Crash Victims' Family Sue Boeing
The parents of passengers onboard the Lion Air flight that crashed into the Java Sea last month killing 189 people have sued Boeing for the alleged "unsafe design" of the 737 Max 8 aircraft.
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Lion Air Plane Smashes Into Pole In Indonesia Week After Fatal Crash
A week after an Indonesian low-cost airline Lion Air plane crashed killing 189 people, another of its aircraft was involved in an incident on Thursday, when it smashed into a pole during takeoff from an airport on Sumatra Island.
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Doomed Indonesia Jet Had Damaged Airspeed Indicator On Last 4 Flights
Indonesian accident investigators said an airspeed indicator of a Boeing Co 737 MAX plane that crashed last week was damaged for its last four flights, but U.S. authorities responded cautiously to suggestions of fleet-wide checks.
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Indonesia Removes Lion Air Director After Plane Crash: Reports
Indonesia's transport minister removed on Wednesday the technical director of the Lion Air airline and several of its technicians after the crash of one of its jets with 189 people on board, the Antara news agency reported on Wednesday. "Today we dismiss (the director) from his position and his duty," Budi Karya Sumadi said, citing the accident on ...
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Indonesia Military Chief "Strongly Believes" Crashed Lion Air Plane Found
The smashed fuselage of a crashed Indonesian jetliner may have been found, the country's military chief said Wednesday, two days after the deadly accident feared to have killed 189 people. Using sonar technology, Hadi Tjahjanto said authorities were confident they had pinpointed the location of the Boeing 737-MAX plane that plunged into the sea on ...
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Indonesian Planes Clip Wings At Airport In Latest Scare
Two Indonesian passenger planes clipped wings as they were about to take off from Jakarta's main airport, an airline said Tuesday, the latest accident in the country's beleaguered aviation sector.
