Lion Air jet black box found as airline suspends managers

Search teams in Indonesia retrieved the flight data recorder of the Lion Air plane that plunged into the Java Sea this week, as the carrier suspended some executives following the nation’s worst air disaster in 2 decades. Data on the ill-fated plane gathered by the committee prior to the recovery of what was called a crash survivable memory unit indicated that there were technical issues. Indonesia’s transport ministry Thursday ordered Lion Air to immediately relieve its director of maintenance, managers in charge of quality control and fleet maintenance, and an engineer to facilitate a smooth investigation. It is too early to determine what led to the disaster, the carrier’s owner has said. The govt has vowed “strict sanctions” on Lion Air if a probe by the safety board proves negligence on the part of the airline. <br/>