The first drop was like falling into a deep hole. Then came the screams, everyone praying to God. This was not the deadly flight but another, luckier Lion Air flight. Minutes after the 737 MAX departed Bali for Jakarta, just after nine p.m. on Sunday, October 28, 2018, the software that Boeing had pressed regulators to delete from the manual had kicked in. As the plane seesawed up and down over the next ten minutes, Surprianto Sudarto, seated in the second row, saw flight attendants and pilots going in and out of the cockpit carrying what looked like dictionaries. “Is that the instruction book
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