Lion Air Crash Report Details Automatic Trim Issues

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The preliminary report into the Oct. 29 Lion Air flight 610 crash confirms that the pilots struggled with the automatic trim as it responded to faulty inputs, although they appear to have not activated the cut-out switch for this system. The report by the Indonesian National Transportation Safety...
Adrian Schofield

Adrian is a senior air transport editor for Aviation Week, based in New Zealand. He covers commercial aviation in the Asia-Pacific region.

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