Pilots searched for right checklist before Lion Air crash: Investigators

Indonesian investigators said Thursday the cockpit voice recorder from a crashed Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX 8 jet showed pilots were searching for the right checklist in their handbooks and were experiencing airspeed and altitude issues. Nurcahyo Utomo, an investigator at Indonesia's national transportation committee (KNKT) said the recording showed there was "panic" in the cockpit in the last 20 seconds of the flight. "At the end of the flight it seemed the pilot felt he could no longer recover the flight, then the panic emerged," he said. A different crew on the same plane the evening before encountered the same problem with the computer ordering the plane's nose down but solved it after running through 3 checklists, according to a preliminary report released by KNKT in November. <br/>