Chapter 9Power, Conflict, and Coalition
The captain had the flu and was coughing repeatedly before he boarded the plane. The copilot had been called at 4 a.m. to work a flight that was departing in less than two hours (Suhartono and Ramzy, 2019). Both pilots were highly experienced, but the copilot's training record was spotty, with a tendency to rigidify under stress and instances of marginal aircraft control (KNKT, 2018). Neither pilot knew that the crew on the aircraft the previous day had struggled with control problems, nor that those problems were symptoms of a potentially fatal design flaw (Suhartono and Ramzy, 2019).
The crew of Lion Air Flight 610 left Jakarta on October 29, 2018, flying an almost‐new Boeing 737 MAX. Takeoff was ...
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