Remembering New Zealand's worst air disaster, TE901, 39 years later. This crash was totally preventable and occurred due to lack of communication in advising the flight crew of a flight plan which had co-ordinates differing to what the crew briefing told them merely a few weeks earlier. The resulting disgrace between the Government of the day and Air NZ, saw a commission of inquiry, headed by Justice Peter Mahon. Such was the conspiracy to cover up the truth, that Justice Mah

Indonesia's transport ministry has found faults in two other Boeing 737-MAX 8 jets, including a cockpit indicator display problem which an analyst warned may be similar to one reported in the crashed Lion Air Jet. The ministry said it is inspecting 10 of the newly released jets owned by Lion and flagship carrier Garuda, as authorities analyse data from a recovered black box that may help explain why flight JT610 plummeted into the Java Sea, killing 189 people on Monday. Few d

Just some info for those interested in the Lion Air JT610 Indonesian flight crash. NOTE: IN NO WAY do I suspect anything untoward here, but I do question the maintenance of this new aircraft, and in particular, why the airline's Technical Director was fired. [Comment added by Declan Curran] *** LION AIR JT610 UPDATE *** Data recovered from crashed Lion Air data recorder: official. New Zealand Herald 5 Nov, 2018 7:58am. Investigators succeeded in retrieving hours of data from