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Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee (NTSC) has released the final report into the crash of Lion Air flight JT 610. The Boeing 737 MAX 8 PK-LQP had just taken off from Jakarta’s Soekarno–Hatta International Airport bound for Pangkal Pinang when it plunged into the Java Sea on October 29 2018. The accident killed 181 passengers
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Indonesian investigators have recovered the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of the Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX 8 that crashed in late October 2018.
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![Indonesia releases preliminary report on Lion Air crash](https://worldofaviation.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/AIRCRAFT-TAILS-LION-AIR-SUB-AUG10-RF-IMG_7832_1170.jpg)
The preliminary report into Lion Air flight JT610 says pilots were battling a "flight control problem" before the Boeing 737 MAX 8 crashed in the Java Sea.