Lion Air crash: Last four flights had airspeed indicator problems

The head of Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee says the "black box" data recorder from the crashed Lion Air jet shows its last four flights all had an airspeed indicator problem.

Soerjanto Tjahjono, Chief of the National Transportation Safety Committee, at a meeting with relatives of the Lion Air crash victims. Source: AAP

An Indonesian Lion Air jet that plunged into the Java Sea last week, killing all 189 on board, had an airspeed indicator problem on its fatal flight and on three previous journeys, the country's transportation watchdog said Monday.

The new details - gleaned from a recovered flight data recorder - come after the government said it was launching a "special audit" of the budget carrier's operations.

A week after the disaster, there is still no answer as to what caused the crash.

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