Officials consider role of speed readings in Lion Air crash

Indonesian officials are providing the strongest hints yet that a faulty airspeed indicator played a role in the deadly crash of a Lion Air jet into the Java Sea. Investigators said Monday that one of the so-called black boxes showed that the airspeed indicator on the Boeing jet malfunctioned on its last 4 flights, including the Oct 29 crash. Safety experts said investigators will look at why Lion Air didn't ground the plane if it experienced recurring problems with the sensors and subject it to more rigorous inspection and testing until the problem was fixed. One safety consultant said the report that the same problem happened 4 times and was never fixed suggests that the problem may have been intermittent, making it harder to pin down. <br/>