Indonesian investigators has said&nbsp; Lion Air pilots struggled to maintain control of a Boeing jet that crashed last month, as its automatic safety system repeatedly pushed the plane's nose down&nbsp; .<br />''&nbsp; &nbsp;<br />''&nbsp; &nbsp;Indonesian authorities investigating&nbsp; the deadly crash has said this in a draft preliminary report based on&nbsp; Black box data.&nbsp; Information from the Lion Air jet's flight data recorder was included in a briefing for the Indonesian Parliament.<br />''&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br />''The investigators are focusing on whether faulty information from sensors led the plane's system to force the nose down.<br />''&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br />''&nbsp;Peter Lemme, an expert in aviation and satellite communications and a former Boeing engineer, told the&nbsp; Associated press&nbsp; that the&nbsp; pilots failed to recognize the emergency and&nbsp; &nbsp; follow the known procedure for countering incorrect activation of the automated safety system .<br />'' <br />''The MAX aircraft, the latest version of Boeing's popular 737 jetliner, includes an automated system that pushes the nose down if a sensor detects that the nose is pointed so high that the plane could go into an aerodynamic stall.&nbsp; The new&nbsp; Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX 8 plunged into the Java Sea on October 29, killing all 189 people on board, including an Indian pilot.<br />''<br />
News On AIR | November 28, 2018 12:51 PM
Lion Air pilots struggled to maintain control of Boeing jet that crashed last month: Indonesian investigators