AirAsia plane crash caused by faulty component, crew action


Indonesian workers remove the fuselage of AirAsia QZ8501 from a vessel at the Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta on March 2, 2015. - AFP/File / Adek Berry

Jakarta (AFP) - Faulty equipment and the crew's "inability to control the aircraft" led an AirAsia A320 to crash into the Java Sea last year, killing all 162 people onboard, a report said on Tuesday.

Flight QZ8501 went down in stormy weather on December 28, during what was supposed to be a short flight from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore.

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