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AirAsia Plane Crash Caused by Faulty Component, Crew Action

Dec 02, 2015 02:06 AM EST

The accident of the Airbus A320-200 set off a huge global search, with ships and aircrafts from a few countries included in a long hunt that was hindered by strong currents and terrible climate. The bodies of 56 casualties were never recovered.

In their last report into the accident released Tuesday, Indonesia's official National Transportation Safety Committee stated that a major point was a fault with a system that controls the movement of the rudder. Broken soldering in the component made it malfunction and send repeated cautioning messages to the pilots.

When they got the fourth warning, the pilots pulled circuit-breakers on one of the aircraft's PCs, expelling power from the defective system in an offer to reset it. Be that as it may, in doing as such, they additionally turned off the plane's autopilot.

Report said that the ensuing flight crew activity brought about inability to control the aircraft. The plane went into a delayed slow down condition that was beyond the ability of the crew to recuperate. It included the flight information recorders did not show the climate had affected the airplane.

The report added that the faulty component, the Rudder Travel Limiter, had endured 23 issues in the previous 12 months, referring to maintenance records.

A minister beforehand described how the plane climbed quick and after that went into aerodynamic stall, losing lift, before it went down, while an examiner said the alarms were screaming as the pilots urgently attempted to settle the airplane.

Examiners had likewise uncovered that the French co-pilot, Remi Plesel, was at the controls of the AirAsia plane in the prior minutes it crashed, as opposed to the more experienced pilot, Captain Iriyanto, who had around 20,000 hours of flying time.

Rescuers experienced challenges in the uneven waters of the Java Sea, but the body of the plane was in the long run situated on the seabed by a Singapore naval force ship and both black box data recorders were recovered.

Search efforts were at long last canceled in March after right around three months of hunting.

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