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This is actually kind of astounding: https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-indonesia-crash-exclusive/exclusive-cockpit-voice-recorder-of-doomed-lion-air-jet-depicts-pilots-frantic-search-for-fix-sources-idUKKCN1R10F7

We already knew the pilots of the Lion Air plane had experienced the same issue as the doomed flight crew on the airplane's next to last flight, but now we know more:

The manufacturer has said there is a documented procedure to handle the situation. A different crew on the same plane the evening before encountered the same problem but solved it after running through three checklists, according to the November report.

But they did not pass on all of the information about the problems they encountered to the next crew, the report said.

On the same aircraft the evening before the crash, a captain at Lion Air’s full-service sister carrier, Batik Air, was riding along in the cockpit and solved the similar flight control problems, two of the sources said. His presence on that flight, first reported by Bloomberg, was not disclosed in the preliminary report.

A captain from a different airline solved the problem for them!

If I was the Indonesian aviation authority it's Lion Air I would be grounding - And right now!