AHMEDABAD/NEW DELHI – India’s aviation officials have started extracting data from the black boxes recovered from the Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner that crashed on June 12, killing 260 people—making it the country’s worse aviation disaster in over a decade.
According to civil aviation officials, the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder were recovered soon after the crash and safely transported to Delhi. A specialist team from the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) is now decoding flight communications and instrumentation data to reconstruct the final moments before the tragedy.
This analysis aims to shed light on critical questions: Did the engines fail shortly after lift‑off? Were there sudden control issues? Could there have been misleading instrument readings? Investigators are poring over all possibilities, working against a backdrop of mounting regulatory scrutiny.
While no lead investigator has yet been officially named, a multi‑agency panel—including representatives from Boeing, engine-maker GE, and international experts—is expected to take shape soon. Honorary rulings on Air India’s safety procedures are also anticipated in light of recent warnings about maintenance breaches.
Local authorities are expected to release a preliminary fact sheet within the next four to six weeks. However, experts caution that a full technical report will likely take several months—given the complexity of the dive’s causes and the need for global input.
As India moves into the data phase of its investigation, families and authorities await answers—and concrete steps to prevent a tragedy of this scale from repeating.
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