29 Nov 2018

Lion Air plane was not airworthy - report

From Morning Report, 8:25 am on 29 November 2018

A Lion Air plane that crashed into the Java Sea last month, killing all 189 people on board, was not airworthy and should have been grounded. Those findings come from Indonesian investigators who have released a preliminary report into the accident. The report says the pilots struggled with a faulty automated system which repeatedly forced the plane's nose down despite their frantic efforts in the 13 minutes before it crashed. From New York we're joined by Mary Schiavo, an aviation lawyer.