Indonesian Safety Board To Issue Final Report On Lion Air Boeing 737 Crash By September

Umer Jamshaid Published March 22, 2019 | 10:12 PM

The Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) will publish a final report on last year's crash of a Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX in August or September, KNKT head Soerjanto Tjahjono said on Friday

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 22nd March, 2019) The Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) will publish a final report on last year's crash of a Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX in August or September, KNKT head Soerjanto Tjahjono said on Friday.

"The final report is to be published between August and September," Tjahjono said, noting that the KNKT had worked with Boeing engineers and the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in order to recreate the aircraft's last flight.

He added that up to 90 percent of the needed data had already been collected to make a report. Besides technical characteristics, the report would also include data from the aircraft's voice recorder, Tjahjono stated.

The deadly crash of a Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX 8 took place in Indonesia on October 29, 2018, killing all 189 people on board.

The plane, which was headed for the city of Pangkal Pinang on the Indonesian island of Bangka, lost contact with air traffic control 13 minutes after taking off from Jakarta's airport and fell into the sea. The causes of the accident have not been determined yet.

An Ethiopian Airlines-operated Boeing 737 MAX 8 bound for the Kenyan capital of Nairobi crashed in Ethiopia on March 10, killing all 157 people on board. The reasons behind this tragedy are similarly unknown.

Following the March crash, aviation authorities and airlines around the world have either grounded their 737 MAX 8 series aircraft or closed airspace to them.