Air Asia safety fault crashed Airbus A320 killing 162

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A flight control computer had a cracked solder joint that malfunctioned repeatedly, including four times during the flight, and 23 times the previous year.

In the first three instances the crew followed procedures but on the fourth alert, investigators said data showed the flight computer’s circuit breakers being reset and resulting in an “electrical interruption”.

The pilots attempted to respond to the problem, but the plane stalled and crashed into the Java Sea.

The Airbus A320-200 with 162 people on board crashed into the Java Sea Dec. 28 en route from Surabaya, East Java, to Singapore.

The report said this then turned off the autopilot which caused the plane to begin rolling.

“Subsequent flight crew action resulted in inability to control the aircraft”, said the report.

In their final report into the accident released Tuesday, Indonesia’s official National Transportation Safety Committee said poor maintenance and a fault with the system that helps control the rudder’s movement was a major contributing factor into the crash.

Investigators said the flight crew’s actions while flying manually led to the stall.

And in June an Indonesian military plane went down into a residential neighbourhood in the city of Medan, exploding in a fireball and killing 142 people.

It said weather conditions did not affect the aircraft, according to data from the flight recorder.

The crash was part of a string of aviation disasters in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy, where rapid growth in air travel has overcrowded airports and stirred safety concerns.