A Boeing 737 MAX 8 after completing its first flight on January 29, 2016 in Seattle, Washington. Picture: GETTY IMAGES/STEPHEN BRASHEAR
After flight school in California, Suneja had joined Lion Air in 2011, the same year the airline placed what was then the biggest single order in Boeing’s history, a $22bn Max purchase that co-founder Rusdi Kirana sealed with a handshake from US president Barack Obama. In the early days, he would hold up a name board at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport to pick up arriving passengers. Kirana and his brother eventually cobbled together $900,000 and leased an old 737-200 as well as a woeful Soviet-made competitor, the Yakovlev Yak-42. Lion Air began flying in 2000.
The Max, first delivered in 2017, fit right into this mindset. In emails later handed over to congressional investigators, a Boeing pilot boasted of using “Jedi mind tricks” to convince airlines and regulators there was no need for pilots who’d flown the previous version of the 737 to undergo expensive simulator training on the Max. For airlines, training is a big part of labour costs. Minimising the expense gave Boeing’s customers one less reason to defect to its European rival, Airbus SE.
Harvino flipped through Boeing’s 737 Quick Reference Handbook, searching pages of emergency checklists for an answer. Airspeed Unreliable. Dual Bleed. Pack Trip Off. Wing-Body Overheat. Nothing seemed to explain the ghost fighting them for control of the plane. Twenty-one times Suneja pressed the switch to keep the nose pointing up.
“Wah, it’s very ...” Harvino muttered. He flicked the thumb switch but not as firmly as the captain had. After a few seconds the nose fell again, and again he hit the switch. The jet tilted towards the water. Harvino exclaimed that the plane was pointing down. Suneja, distracted, answered, “It’s OK.”
Soon the Indonesia Divers Rescue Team was in the water, retrieving cellphones, ID cards, bags, and photos. Winches started pulling up larger pieces of debris, and the divers began hunting for the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder.
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