Indonesia to add 50 airworthiness inspectors every year

Tighter regulations could be on way after probe into Lion Air crash

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Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee is to release preliminary findings from its investigation into a recent Lion Air crash late next week.

SHOTARO TANI, Nikkei Staff writer

JAKARTA -- Indonesia will increase the number of airworthiness inspectors by 50 each year and contemplate tightening aviation safety rules, depending on the findings of an investigation into the fatal crash of a Lion Air flight in October, the country's director general of civil aviation said.

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