[Jeff Higgins]

Lion Air is well known in the industry as being a cheap ass, cut any corner to save a buck, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, bunch of money grubbing cretins. Did I miss anything? Hell, their under maintained, unsafe aircraft were banned for an awfully long time from just about everyone else's airspace.

From what I recall, this particular aircraft had had issues on previous flights and had been "repaired" by Lion Air's "mechanics". God only knows where they got their new AOA sensor, how it was installed, what inspections it received, or any of that. I could tell you guys some real horror stories about some of the shoddy crap we would find when working on some of these fly-by-night carriers' aircraft. Enough to maybe make you reconsider flying.

I'm not letting Boeing off the hook entirely. The manual override, or any changes to it, absolutely should have been conveyed more clearly, and in a more timely fashion, to the operators. No excuse for that. That said, I doubt Lion Air would have taken the time to pass it on to their pilots. That's just how they are. Cheap bastards.