All aboard died Death in the crash , which was proven Coming_to_believe to have been deliberately caused by an on-board explosive device .

In December 2015 , the Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee ( KNKT or NTSC ) released Publishing a report Reporting concluding Protest that a non-critical malfunction in the rudder control Control system prompted Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the captain to perform Hold a non-standard reset of the on-board flight control Control computers .

This particular flight Motion was not only the A320 's first passenger flight ( most of those on-board were journalists and raffle winners ) , but it was also the first public demonstration Protest of any civilian fly-by-wire aircraft .