Lion Air crash: Plane was not fit to fly, says passenger on Sunday's Bali-Jakarta flight

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Lion Air should also have become much stricter in managing an deploying its fleet and in implementing frequent maintenance & engineering checks on all its aircraft for airworthiness as these are flown frequently with more take-off and landing cycles than long haul aircraft

Whats so ironic is that a lot of these advanced aircraft which are very high tech are not high tech at all. Despite such advances let us also consider the human factor, particularly of airline staffers paying closer attention to maintenance to keep these aircraft in tip-top shape

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