Once again demonstrating your complete inability to ing READ.
Indonesia has a corruption problem, thus regulators can okay a faulty aircraft at the right price.
You do realize you are talking to a f**king pilot, right? And one who can actually read English, too.
AVIATION REGULATORS DO NOT APPROVE INDIVIDUAL NON-EXPERIMENTAL, NON-PROTOTYPE AIRFRAMES. THE PLANE WAS A BRAND NEW AIRFRAME THAT WAS SO NEW IT WAS NEVER EVEN SCHEDULED FOR A HEAVY CHECK. YOU WOULD KNOW THAT IF YOU READ THE ARTICLE.
Boeing may have delivered a bad plane with manufacturing defects. The early 787s had problems. But that has nothing to do with the Indonesian authorities. In fact, if any regulatory authority is at fault in such a case (which is not the case here), it would be the FAA.
The airline's maintenance staff may not have spotted a technical fault, or the pilots may have made errors, both of which could've been caused by a poor safety culture at the airline, which could've in turn been caused by relatively poor regulation. But one thing is absolutely sure - at no point did anyone in any Indonesian regulatory authority "okay" this specific plane to fly, other than issuing standard registration for an approved aircraft type. The assertion that some sort of regulatory bureaucrat "signed off" on this plane's maintenance for profit is so ludicrous and so far detached from how things actually work that I actually have to consider it a personal insult that I have to share a biological species with the person who made it.
