Crashed Indonesian plane had faulty air speed indicator: official

An Indonesian airliner carrying 189 people that plunged into the Java Sea last week, with no survivors, appears to have had a faulty air speed indicator, an official said Monday.National Transportation Safety Committee Chief Soerjanto Tjahjono told a press conference that the Boeing 737 MAX 8, operated by Lion Air, exhibited air speed indicator problems during its ill-fated flight on Oct. 29, as well as during three previous flights.According to data issued by flight tracking service FlightRadar24, the three previous flights were from Bali to Jakarta on Oct. 28, from the North Sulawesi prov…READ FULL ARTICLE