On 13 March, the FAA announced that new evidence found on the crash site and satellite data on Flight 302 suggested that the aircraft might have suffered from the same problem which the aircraft operating Lion Air Flight 610 had suffered from.
2019年3月13日，FAA宣布在衛星資料和墜機現場找到的新證據顯示，該次客機可能遭遇到和獅子航空610號一樣的問題。