Lion Air crash: Off-duty pilot had identified plane malfunction just a day before plane crashed
An off-duty pilot sitting in the cockpit had identified the system's malfunction while the Boeing 737 Max 8 was flying to Jakarta from Bali and experienced issues
New details from the Indonesian Lion Air plane crash that killed all 189 passengers on board have revealed that the aircraft had been saved from disaster by a third pilot just a day before the tragedy.
The doomed Boeing 737 MAX 8 had reportedly malfunctioned on an earlier flight from Bali to Jakarta, an ongoing investigation into the October accident revealed. However, it avoided catastrophe after an off-duty pilot stepped in to rescue the aircraft, Daily Mail reports.
