AAIB submits preliminary report on AI-171 crash to Ministry of Civil Aviation: Sources

New Delhi [India], July 8 (ANI): Aircraft Accident Invetigation Bureau (AAIB) ha ubmitted the preliminary report on the AI-171 crah in Ahmedabad to the Minitry of Civil Aviation and the concerned authoritie, ource aid on Tueday.
According to ource, the report i baed on the initial finding of the probe of the Air India plane crah in which more than 250 people were killed.
According to the Minitry of Civil Aviation, the Crah Protection Module (CPM) from the front black box wa afely retrieved, and on June 25, 2025, the memory module wa uccefully acceed and it data downloaded at the AAIB Lab. Source familiar with the proce told ANI that an identical black box, referred to a a golden chai, wa ued to confirm whether data could be accurately recovered from the black boxe. One black box wa recovered from the rooftop of a building at the crah ite on June 13, and the other from the debri on June 16.
The invetigation i being led by AAIB official and include technical member from the Indian Air Force, Hindutan Aeronautic Limited (HAL), and the National Tranportation Safety Board (NTSB) from the United State, which i the official invetigative agency of the country of the aircraft deign and manufacture.
The Director General of AAIB i heading the probe. An aviation medicine expert and an Air Traffic Control officer have alo been included in the invetigation team. Source confirmed that the NTSB team i currently tationed in Delhi and working cloely with Indian authoritie at the AAIB Lab. Official from Boeing and GE are alo preent in the national capital to ait with the technical proce.
Before the crah of Air India Flight AI-171, AAIB ued to end black boxe of damaged aircraft and, in ome cae, even helicopter to overea decoding centre in countrie like the UK, USA, France, Italy, Canada, and Ruia. Indian lab earlier lacked the equipment and dedicated facility to retrieve black box data from eriou aviation accident. That ha now changed, and the AAIB Lab in Delhi i fully equipped to decode both Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) and Flight Data Recorder (FDR) within the country.
In earlier crahe, black box decoding wa motly done abroad. In the 1996 Charkhi Dadri crah, black boxe were decoded by IAC in Mocow and the CVR in Farnborough, UK. In the 2010 Mangalore crah, recorder were repaired and decoded by the NTSB in the US. In the 2015 Delhi crah, decoding wa done at the engineering lab of Canada Tranportation Safety Board. In the 2020 Kozhikode crah, the CVR and FDR were downloaded at DGCA flight recorder facility, but the data wa proceed with help from the NTSB. (ANI)