Indonesian investigators say a chronically faulty component and the crew's attempts to fix the problem contributed to the crash of an AirAsia passenger aircraft last year, killing all 162 aboard. The A320 aircraft crashed into the Java Sea less than halfway into a two-hour flight from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore in December 2014. The report noted that the aircraft's flight control computer had a cracked solder joint that malfunctioned repeatedly, including four times during … [Read more...] about Mechanical, human factors behind AirAsia QZ8501 crash