Sriwijaya Air

The memory unit from Sriwijaya Air Flight 182’s cockpit voice recorder (CVR) was recovered from the Java Sea on Tuesday. Investigators have been searching for the unit since the Boeing 737-500 went down off the coast of Jakarta on Jan. 9, killing all 62 people onboard. The aircraft’s flight data recorder (FDR) was found shortly […]

Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 experienced a thrust imbalance prior to going down in the Java Sea on Jan. 9, 2021, according to the preliminary accident report issued by Indonesia’s Komite Nasional Keselamatan Transportasi (KNKT/National Transportation Safety Committee) on Wednesday. Data from the Boeing 737-500’s flight data recorder (FDR) showed that the thrust lever for the […]

Investigators are looking into the possibility that an autothrottle problem contributed to the fatal crash of Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 near Jakarta, Indonesia, on Jan. 9, 2021. While the data has not been made public, information from the Boeing 737-500’s flight data recorder allegedly indicates that the system was causing one engine to produce more […]