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WORLD NEWS Saturday 3 November 2018

New details highlight Lion Air jet’s problems before crash

By NINIEK KARMINI some of its wiring will need
STEPHEN WRIGHT to be replaced and a new
Associated Press shell provided from Lion Air
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) to enable a download of
— New details about the data.
crashed Lion Air jet’s previ- “In principle, all data we
ous flight cast more doubt have obtained, includ-
on the Indonesian airline’s ing flight data and air
claim to have fixed techni- navigation, and also from
cal problems, as hundreds other sources — we find
of personnel searched the that there have indeed
sea for a fifth day Friday for been problems” with the
victims and the plane’s fu- plane, Satmiko said. “We
selage. will prove more technical
The brand new Boeing 737 problems with data re-
MAX 8 plane plunged into corded in the black box.”
the Java Sea early Mon- Satmiko said investigators
day, just minutes after tak- had already contacted
ing off from the Indonesian the pilot of the plane’s Sun-
capital, Jakarta, killing all day flight.
189 people on board. One of them, Diah Mar-
Herson, head of the Bali- dani, told a television pro-
Nusa Tenggara Airport Au- gram earlier this week that
thority, said the pilot on the Shoes and debris retrieved from the waters near where a Lion Air jet is believed to have crashed after takeoff “the plane
plane’s previous flight on are laid out for investigation at Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Nov. 2, 2018. suddenly fell, then rose,
Sunday from Bali requested Associated Press then fell again harder and
to return to the airport not to inform that the plane had website published a min- ers at a news conference shook.”
long after takeoff but then run normally and would not ute-by-minute summary of Thursday evening, later “All the passengers started
reported the problem had return” to Bali’s Ngurah Rai what it said were the con- confirmed to be the flight shouting, ‘God is Great,’”
been resolved. Several pas- airport on Sunday, Herson, versations between air traf- data recorder, and said she said. “The atmosphere
sengers have described who uses a single name, fic control and the pilots of they would immediately was very tense.”
the problem as a terrifying told The Associated Press. Monday’s fatal flight, who attempt to download in- She said she was traveling
loss of altitude. “The captain said the prob- reported a “flight control formation and begin an with a group of more than
Lion Air, a budget carrier lem was resolved and he problem” and were unsure analysis. 50 colleagues and many
that is the biggest domestic decided to continue the of their altitude. But progress has been ham- were crying with relief after
airline in Indonesia, has said trip to Jakarta.” Asked about the accura- pered by the black box landing in Jakarta.q
the unspecified problem Data from flight-tracking cy of the report, National not being fully intact and A team from the U.S. Na-
was fixed after Sunday’s websites show both flights Transportation Safety Com- it needs special handling tional Transportation Safe-
flight, but the fatal flight’s had highly erratic speed mittee deputy head Haryo to ensure its data survive, a ty Board including Boeing
pilots also made a “return and altitude after takeoff, Satmiko said it had “similari- process that is continuing, experts has joined the In-
to base” request not long though confirmation is re- ties” with the information according to the National donesian investigation. In-
after takeoff. quired from data record- received “legally” by inves- Transport Safety Commit- donesian investigators will
“Shortly after requesting ed by the aircraft’s “black tigators. tee. It said the “crash-sur- also travel to the U.S. to
RTB, the pilot then contact- box” flight recorders. Officials displayed one of vivable memory unit” was meet with the designers of
ed the control tower again Indonesia’s Tempo news the jet’s two flight record- opened and washed and the new-generation Boe-
ing jet.
Vietnam to ratify Pacific Rim trade pact Hundreds of personnel and
dozens of vessels includ-
ing specialized ships with
Associated Press prehensive international sonar and other detection
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — HA- integration. technology are involved
NOI, Vietnam (AP) — Viet- It also “affirms Vietnam’s in the search effort in seas
namese President Nguyen role and important geo-po- northeast of Jakarta. Four
Phu Trong on Friday sub- litical position in Southeast ping locators — which are
mitted a Pacific Rim trade Asia as well as Asia Pacif- lowered into the sea to lis-
pact to the National As- ic,” the government web- ten for the black box’s sig-
sembly for approval, the site quoted Trong as telling nal — are now being used
government said. the national assembly. to locate the cockpit voice
The Comprehensive and But the pact presents chal- recorder after an addition-
Progressive Agreement lenges for communist-ruled al unit was contributed by
for Trans-Pacific Partner- Vietnam and will require the U.S.
ship will take effect at the adjustments for its legal and More than 60 body bags
year’s end after Australia other institutions, he said. containing human remains
became the sixth nation to Addressing the assembly, have been sent to police
ratify it, earlier this week. Foreign Minister Pham Binh medical experts for iden-
President Donald Trump Minh, who is also deputy tification since the search
pulled out of the pact just prime minister, cited a gov- began, but as of Thursday
days after taking office Vietnamese President Nguyen Phu Trong addresses the National ernment study as saying only one victim has been
last year. The remaining Assembly in Hanoi, Vietnam, Friday, Nov. 2, 2018. the trade pact will boost identified and buried.
11 members account for Associated Press Vietnam’s GDP by 1.3 per- Families of those on board
more than 13 percent of Addressing lawmakers, Vietnam’s strong commit- centage points. Exports will have offered their DNA for
the world’s GDP. Trong said the pact reflects ment to reform and com- also gain momentum.q testing. q