Lion Air News

Doing simulator training would have undercut a critical selling point of the jetSimulator training that didn’t address a malfunction of the system like the one crews in two disasters encountered might not have saved the jets

The story of missteps in the plane’s design emerged from hundreds of pages of dry, technical language in the Indonesian reportBoeing underestimated its risks, didn’t consider how changes to the system would heighten the danger

The cockpit voice recorder (CVR), together with the flight data recorder that was found in November, are jointly known as the black box of an aircraft

Jet Airways Ltd and SpiceJet Ltd operate 737 MAX planes in the country

Lion Air has 190 Boeing jets worth $22 billion at list prices waiting to be delivered, on top of 197 already taken, making it one of the largest US export customers

A 2013 report by the US Federal Aviation Administration found more than 60% of 26 accidents over a decade involved pilots making errors after automated systems abruptly shut down or behaved in unexpected ways

Indonesia is one of the world's fastest-growing aviation markets, but it has come under fresh scrutiny since a fatal Lion Air crash last month

The report doesn't offer a cause for the accident but provides the most detailed look so far into the chaotic minutes before the crash and into the steps that were taken to address malfunctions that occurred on the plane the previous night

Lion Air pilots faced a cacophony of warnings that started seconds after take-off and continued for the remaining 11 minutes before the crash

Southwest Airlines, the largest 737 Max operator, American Airlines and United Airlines are among the carriers pressing Boeing for details of the system