NTSC finds signs that Lion 737 had faulty airspeed indicator

Indonesia's NTSC believes that the Lion Air Boeing 737 Max 8 which crashed Oct 29 had been operating with a faulty airspeed indicator for its last 4 flights. NTSC chief Soerjanto Tjahjono said Monday that the agency had found signs that the airspeed indicator was faulty after downloading information from the jet's flight data recorder. The NTSC is reviewing the aircraft's maintenance records and interviewing maintenance personnel. Tjahjono stresses that the yet-to-be-recovered cockpit voice recorder is critical to the investigation. Local media have reported that the emergency locator transmitter has been found. A crash-survivable memory unit from the flight data recorder had been recovered Nov 1, and a landing gear and its components Nov 2-3. Plans to lift the jet's fuselage from the seabed using an air lifting bag have failed. <br/>