Boeing crash report faces pushback from Lion Air, regulator

Lion Air and Indonesia’s civil aviation authority are pushing back on conclusions reached by investigators probing last year’s deadly crash of a Boeing 737 Max amid concerns that too much blame is being placed on the Indonesian side, according to people familiar with the matter. Lion Air expressed its objections to Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee after 25 of 41 lapses found in the NTSC’s latest draft of the report were directed toward the carrier, one of the people said. The country’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation also relayed its objections, another person familiar with the matter said. NTSC chairman Soerjanto Tjahjono said Monday investigators are still evaluating input from related parties before finalising the report but declined to comment further. <br/>