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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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"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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"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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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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"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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"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 ...
