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Black Boxes Will Give Investigators More Certainty of What Happened on Air India Flight, Experts Say
- On June 12, 2025, shortly after departing from Ahmedabad's SVPIA airport, Air India Flight AI-171, operated by a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, crashed while en route to London Gatwick, resulting in the deaths of 241 of the 242 passengers and crew onboard.
- The crash followed an apparent loss of power during vertical ascent, with bird strikes and nearby multi-storeyed building violations as leading contextual concerns under investigation.
- Indian authorities recovered the flight recorders from the crash site and launched a fact-finding investigation including wreckage documentation and pilot background checks.
- Peter Goelz, former NTSB director, said the black box data and voice recorder will clarify pilots' actions and flight conditions once downloaded by investigators.
- The crash intensified global scrutiny of Boeing amid ongoing aviation safety challenges, emphasizing careful investigation to determine causes and prevent future tragedies.
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Boeing's Black Box: Crack the Cause of Crash
With one more body recovered from the wreckage of Air India's ill-fated plane on Saturday, the death toll has crossed 270. Union Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu said, extended surveillance will now be made on all Boeing-787 planes. He said, the decoding of the black box recovered from the wreckage will give a deep insight into what could have happened when the plane crash took place. The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau team has b…
By Alexandra Skores, CNN Investigators have recovered equipment from this week's tragic plane crash in Ahmedabad, India, that could shed light on the final moments in the cockpit. The cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, recovered from the rooftop of the building where the plane crashed, may end some speculation about the crash that left 241 dead, according to aviation industry experts. The flight dat…
Black boxes will give investigators more certainty of what happened on Air India flight, experts say
Tragedy struck this week when a plane crashed in the city of Ahmedabad just shortly after takeoff, leaving investigators and aviation officials with many questions.
"Hope Ahmedabad Crash Was One-Off Issue With Aircraft": Aviation Attorney
Renowned aviation attorney Robert A Clifford told NDTV that every expert he has talked to about the Air India crash in Gujarat's Ahemdabad says it is potentially due to mechanical problems. Once the black box is retrieved and analysed to determine the cause of crash, further steps will be taken. He added that he hopes the accident was a one-off issue and not a system-wide problem that affects the entire fleet
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