The pilots of the doomed Lion Air flight frantically searched through an aircraft manual to understand why the plane was lurching downwards minutes before it crashed, cockpit voice recordings show. The Lion Air Flight 610 then spent nine minutes pushing its nose down while in a stall. The investigation has taken on new significance after an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed on March 10, killing all 157 people on board. Boeing began working on an upgrade to software behind the flight-control system shortly after the Lion Air crash. A Lion Air spokesman said all data and information had been given to investigators and declined to comment further.

Source: Ethiopian News March 20, 2019 19:41 UTC