Pilots say Boeing withheld info on plane model that crashed
Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN)Boeing was facing mounting pressure Wednesday over the Indonesia airplane disaster as the owner of the doomed jet joined a US pilots’ group in alleging the company failed to warn pilots about the potential hazards of a new safety feature implicated in the crash.
A top Lion Air official told CNN that the manual for Boeing’s 737 MAX 8 — the model that crashed into the Java Sea last month, killing all 189 on board — did not include a warning about a critical feature that could cause the plane to dive.
Zwingli Silalahi, the Indonesian airline’s operational director, said the manual did not tell pilots that in certain situations, the plane’s stall-prevention system could automatically trigger a response, such as lowering the airplane’s nose, to prevent or exit a stall.
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