On the 10th of March this year, a Boeing 737 plane crashed in Ethiopia, killing all 157 on board.
Investigators have released their early findings into another accident involving a 737 operated by Indonesia’s Lion Air, in October last year, and they suggest the cause was “an erroneous angle-of-attack sensor”.
An angle-of-attack sensor is usually positioned to the side of the plane’s nose and detects oncoming air flow, to which it adjusts and sends back data to the plane’s computer system. [Read more…] about Boeing 737 crash could lead to planes being fitted with thousands of additional sensors