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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Indonesia’s Lion Air Group is slashing 2,600 jobs as the coronavirus pandemic hammers Southeast Asia’s biggest carrier, a company spokesman said Monday. The layoffs — about nine percent of the airline’s 29,000 employees — would mainly affect contract workers, it said. The job cuts come after Lion earlier reduced management and staff salaries. “Lion Air Group is in a difficult and challenging period due to the effects of…Covid-19,” said Lion Air […]
by John BIERS NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Boeing has reached settlements with 11 families of victims from October’s Lion Air crash, the first agreements following two deadly crashes that killed 346 people, a plaintiffs attorney said Wednesday. The Wisner Law Firm, which specializes in aviation cases, is also “optimistic” about reaching settlements on its remaining six cases for families affected by the crash in Indonesia, said attorney Alexandra Wisner. The settlements pay out […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Indonesian authorities have cited failures in the Boeing 737 MAX design and oversight as contributing to the 2018 Lion Air plane crash, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. The report into the crash, which will be formally released in early November, also blames pilot error and maintenance issues for the crash that killed 189 people shortly after the flight departed from Jakarta last October, the newspaper said. The […]
(Eagle News)–The owner of the medical evacuation plane that crashed in Calamba, Laguna on Sunday, Sept. 1, has promised to shoulder the funeral expenses of those who died. “For now, ang focus namin is two things. Number one, get our crew and passengers with their loved ones. Number two, those requiring medical attention as a result of this particular accident to have adequate medical attention,” Lester Ople, Lion Air lawyer, added in an interview over […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Divers have found the second black box from a doomed Lion Air jet that crashed last year killing all 189 people onboard, Indonesian authorities said Monday. “We have found the cockpit voice recorder this morning, at around 9 am,” Haryo Satmiko, head of Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee, told AFP. © Agence France-Presse
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Indonesia on Saturday called off the search for passengers of a Lion Air plane, almost two weeks after the jetliner plunged into the Java Sea killing 189 people on board. Some 196 bags containing body parts have been recovered from under the water with 79 victims identified and handed over to their families for burial. “Since yesterday afternoon until today we have not found any more victims and therefore I declare […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — A Lion Air passenger jet has been involved in another accident — just a week after a plane from the Indonesian airline crashed with the loss of all 189 people on board. In the latest incident, the jet clipped a pole as it taxied to the runway at Bengkulu airport on Sumatra island ahead of its flight to Jakarta. The plane’s left wing was visibly damaged, forcing all passengers to disembark. […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Boeing issued a special bulletin Wednesday addressing a sensor problem flagged by Indonesian safety officials investigating the crash of a Lion Air 737 that killed 189 people last week. The planemaker said local aviation officials believed pilots may have been given wrong information by the plane’s automated systems before the fatal crash. “The Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee has indicated that Lion Air flight 610 experienced erroneous input from one […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Indonesia is to launch a “special audit” of Lion Air’s operations in the wake of last week’s deadly crash that killed 189 people, the government said Monday. The budget carrier has been a regular target of complaints about poor service, unreliable scheduling and safety issues, including a fatal 2004 crash. That safety record has been under the microscope since a new Boeing 737-Max 8 plunged into the Java Sea just […]
by Dessy Sagita Agence France Presse JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Indonesia ordered the inspection of all Boeing 737-MAX airliners on Tuesday as rescue teams recovered more human remains from a brand new Lion Air jet that plunged into the sea with 189 people on board. On a Jakarta dockside, officials took up the grim task of separating human remains from plane debris and recovered personal effects, sending the body parts — including from an […]
by Dessy SAGITA Agence France Presse JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Indonesian search teams Tuesday recovered more remains at the site of a crashed Lion Air jet that plunged into the sea with 189 people aboard, as a report said it had suffered an instrument malfunction the day before. The Boeing-737 MAX, which went into service just months ago, crashed into the Java Sea moments after it had asked to return to Jakarta on Monday. Flight […]
Various personal items and wreckage were recovered at the site of the Indonesian Lion Air jet which plunged into the Java Sea minutes after it took off from the Indonesian capital of Jakarta. Divers also recovered some of the bodies of the victims as search and rescue operational director feared that all the 189 passengers and crew aboard the plane did not survive the crash Monday morning, October 29. “My prediction is that nobody survived […]
