At the moment, Jet is flying five B737 Max and SpiceJet has one. The B737 Max which crashed on Monday was a brand new plane which had been inducted in Lion Air fleet on August 15, 2018, and had done less than 800 hours .
A senior official of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said: “Since six Boeing 737 Max are operating with two Indian operators, Jet Airways and SpiceJet, we are in touch with Boeing and Federal Aviation Administration (US aviation regulator FAA)… to know more details about the unfortunate accident. Boeing has informed that as on September 2018, 219 B737 Max airplanes have been delivered across the world. As far as operation of B737 Max with Indian operators is concerned, no technical issue has been experienced by the operators.”
The Boeing website says: “The 737 Max is the fastest selling airplane in Boeing history, accumulating nearly 4,700 orders from more than 100 customers worldwide.” After the Lion Air crash, the US aircraft major tweeted: “Boeing is aware of reports of an airplane accident and is closely monitoring the situation…. Boeing stands ready to provide technical assistance to the accident investigation. The last flight before the crash of Lion Air's Max 8 (registration PK-LQP) was from Bali to Jakarta on Sunday. The aircraft flight maintenance log for this flight JT 43 reported some malfunctions like its indicated airspeed (IAS) and altitude indicators had “disagree shown after take off”.
A report of this Bali to Jakarta flight by the crew is learnt to have said: “Airspeed unreliable and alt (altitude) disagree shown after take off. (Some other measure) was also running to the wrong direction, suspected because of speed difference.”
ALT disagree means the airspeed indicator disagreed between the captain and co-pilot indicators.
from Times of India https://ift.tt/2ES10UC
