On Deadly 737 Max Jet, Captain Had the Flu and Copilot Was a Sub
- A cascade of confusion, errors in cockpit contributed to crash
- Final minutes of crash outlined for first time in final report
The cockpit of a grounded Lion Air Boeing Co. 737 Max 8 aircraft
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As Lion Air Flight 610 bucked and weaved through clear skies over the Java Sea, the captain frantically urged his first officer to run through an emergency checklist.
In the cockpit of the Boeing Co. 737 Max, alarms were blaring, air traffic controllers were on the radio issuing instructions and the copilot was desperately searching the manual trying to find the checklist.