Investigators analyzing black box data from fatal Air India crash

The Associated Press

· Posted: Jun 27, 2025 4:10 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

Investigators person begun analyzing information extracted from the achromatic boxes of the ill-fated Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner that crashed connected June 12, sidesplitting astatine slightest 270 people, India's Civil Aviation Ministry said connected Thursday.

The information is important arsenic it volition assistance shed airy connected the origin of the country's worst aviation catastrophe successful caller memory.

A squad led by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) has started looking astatine the information with enactment from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, the ministry said successful a statement.

"These efforts purpose to reconstruct the series of events starring to the mishap and place contributing factors to heighten aviation information and forestall aboriginal occurrences," it said.

Indian investigators recovered the achromatic boxes from the wreckage tract successful the northwestern Indian metropolis of Ahmedabad, a mates of days aft the London-bound Air India formation 171 struck a residential country minutes aft takeoff.

The clang killed 241 radical onboard and astatine slightest 29 connected the ground. There was 1 survivor.

The achromatic box is 1 of the astir important pieces of forensic grounds pursuing a level crash. There are typically 2 sturdy devices: the cockpit dependable recorder and the formation information recorder. They're typically orange, not black.

Indian authorities flew the achromatic boxes from Ahmedabad to the nationalist superior successful an Indian Air Force craft amid choky information aboriginal this week.

The probe could instrumentality weeks oregon months.

India acceptable up a state-of-the-art laboratory successful New Delhi successful April to assistance the AAIB repair damaged achromatic boxes and retrieve information to heighten the accuracy of investigations.

A multidisciplinary squad led by AAIB manager wide GVG Yugandhar is probing the Air India clang with assistance from aviation and aerial postulation power specialists and experts from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board.

The Indian authorities has besides acceptable up a separate, high-level committee to analyse the causes starring to the clang and formulate procedures to forestall and grip craft emergencies successful the future. The committee is expected to record a preliminary study wrong 3 months.

Following the crash, Indian authorities had ordered deeper checks of Air India's full fleet of Boeing 787 Dreamliners to forestall aboriginal incidents.

Air India has 33 Dreamliners successful its fleet. Inspection has been completed for astatine slightest 26, portion 4 were undergoing semipermanent maintenance. The remainder were expected to decorativeness the information checks soon.

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