JAKARTA -- Indonesia's Transportation Ministry has ordered its airlines to conduct emergency inspections on their Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft following the crash of Lion Air flight JT610 on Monday, as the search for the ill-fated plane and its black box recorder continues into a second day.
Flight JT610 was flown on a Max 8 plane, a new addition to Lion Air's fleet only in August. The ministry will also launch a special audit on Lion Air from Tuesday to see if there were problems with its management system.
