JAVA SEA — 2018 · Major Tragedy
The Lion Air Flight 610 Crash
On the morning of 29 October 2018 Lion Air Flight 610, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 flying from Jakarta's Soekarno–Hatta Airport to Pangkal Pinang on Bangka island, crashed into the Java Sea about 12 minutes after take-off. All 181 passengers and 8 crew, 189 people in total, were killed. It was the first major accident involving the 737 MAX. The report published in 2019 by Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee found that the MCAS flight-control software, fed by a faulty sensor, repeatedly pushed the aircraft's nose down, and that the crash resulted from a series of failures including Boeing's design and certification errors, the airline's maintenance shortcomings and pilot error. After a second crash of the same model in Ethiopia five months later, the 737 MAX was grounded worldwide.
- Date
- 2018
- Place
- Off Karawang, Indonesia, Java Sea, ID
- Category
- Major Tragedy
- Case Status
- Closed
- Coordinates
- -5.8100, 107.1200 ↗
Timeline of Events
- 29 October 2018Lion Air 610 crashed into the Java Sea shortly after take-off; 189 died.
- 1 November 2018The flight data recorder was recovered from the sea.
- March 2019After a second crash in Ethiopia the 737 MAX was grounded worldwide.
- 25 October 2019The final report attributed the crash to a series of failures.
Sources
- BBC News — Boeing 737 Max Lion Air crash caused by series of failures bbc.co.uk ↗
- BBC News — Lion Air crash: Boeing 737 plane crashes in sea off Jakarta bbc.com ↗
- CNN — Lion Air crash: investigators detect pings edition.cnn.com ↗
- Wikipedia — Lion Air Flight 610 en.wikipedia.org ↗
- BBC News
- CNN
- Wikipedia
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