TheWild ™ Posted October 30, 2018 Posted October 30, 2018 After taking off from Denpasar on the holiday island of Bali on Sunday evening - the day before the crash - the Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX jet reported unusual variations in altitude and airspeed at the beginning of the flight. This included an 875ft drop over 27 seconds, when it would normally be ascending, before stabilising and flying on to Jakarta. However, the pilots kept the plane at a maximum altitude of 28,000ft compared with 36,000ft on the same route earlier in the week, according to FlightRadar24 data. Lion Air CEO Edward Sirait said on Monday a technical problem had occurred on the Denpasar-Jakarta flight but it had been resolved "according to procedure". Image:The flight went down on Monday Two passengers on board said they had been concerned about problems with the air-conditioning system and cabin lighting before the plane departed almost three hours late. One of them, TV presenter Conchita Caroline, said: "I was angry because as a passenger who had paid her ticket, we have every right to question the aircraft's safety." She added there was a "weird" engine noise on take-off that continued during the flight. It is not known whether the cabin problems were related to the technical trouble mentioned by the airline's CEO. 1:58 Video:Rescue teams look for Lion Air black box The Denpasar-Jakarta flight landed at 10.55pm local time on Sunday, giving engineers six-and-a-half hours to carry out checks before it was dispatched for the fatal Jakarta-Pangkal Pinang flight at 6.20am on Monday. The plane plunged into the sea minutes after taking off from Jakarta and all 189 people on board are believed to have died.
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