Investigators are slowly piecing together clues of how Indonesia's worst air disaster in two decades transpired, raising questions over how a near brand-new Boeing Co jet that had recurring instrument failures was cleared for its ill-fated flight.
The Lion Air Max 8 plane's angle-of-attack sensor, which helps aircraft maintain the correct pitch to stay airborne, was replaced the day before the October 29 crash after erroneous readings on a previous trip, the Indonesia National Transportation Safety Committee said Wednesday. Faulty airspeed readings plagued the jet on its last four flights before it plunged into the Java Sea with 189