JAKARTA (Bloomberg): The Lion Air jet that crashed into the Java Sea off Indonesia earlier this week, with the presumed loss of 189 lives, had experienced problems with the sensors used to calculate altitude and speed on its previous flight, an issue that could help explain why the plane dove into the water.
Pilots on the nearly new Boeing 737 Max reported the issue after flying from Denpasar to Jakarta the night before Monday’s accident, Lion Air spokesman Danang Mandala Prihantoro said Wednesday.
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