Boeing, Congress and Our Airlines

KOMPAS/TOTOK WIJAYANTO

National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) officers inspect the turbine of the downed Lion Air plane at the Jakarta International Container Terminal (JICT) 2 in Tanjung Priok Port, North Jakarta, Sunday (4/11/2018). A search operation for the wreckage of the plane, which plunged into Karawang waters in West Java, was extended until Wednesday (7/11/2018).

There is something interesting about flight issues this week, namely the summoning of Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg by the United States Congress regarding the Boeing B-737 MAX aviation disaster.

The news from the US appeared not far from the announcement of the results of the National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) investigation into the crash of Lion Air\'s B-737 MAX 8 PK-LQP, on Oct. 29, 2018, which caused 189 deaths. Nearly five months later, there was another disaster involving the same type of aircraft owned by Ethiopian Airlines on March 11.