New Delhi: The Plane Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) has begun analyzing the black field information recovered from the crash website of Air India Flight AI171, which crashed moments after takeoff from Ahmedabad on June 12, the federal government mentioned on Thursday.
As a part of a proper investigation launched in keeping with worldwide protocols, each the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) and the Flight Knowledge Recorder (FDR) had been recovered from the Ahmedabad crash website—one from a rooftop on June 13 and the opposite from the particles on June 16—and had been flown to Delhi.
The AAIB, which is the designated authority for such investigations, is presently conducting the investigation into the crash, the federal government assured.
On Thursday, the federal government acknowledged that the units (CVR and FDR) had been secured beneath round the clock police safety and CCTV surveillance earlier than being airlifted to Delhi by Indian Air Pressure (IAF) plane on June 24.
“…the black bins had been introduced from Ahmedabad to Delhi by IAF plane with full safety on 24 June 2025. The entrance black field arrived on the AAIB lab in Delhi with the Director Basic (DG) of AAIB at 1400 hrs on 24 June 2025,” it acknowledged.
“The rear black field was introduced by a second AAIB workforce and reached the AAIB lab in Delhi at 1715 hrs on 24 June,” it added.
A press release issued by the federal government additionally confirmed that information extraction started the identical night on the AAIB lab in Delhi, and the reminiscence module was accessed.
“On the night of 24 June 2025, the workforce led by the DG of AAIB, together with technical members from AAIB and the US Nationwide Transportation Security Board (NTSB), started the info extraction course of. The Crash Safety Module (CPM) from the entrance black field was safely retrieved, and on 25 June 2025, the reminiscence module was efficiently accessed and its information downloaded on the AAIB lab,” the assertion learn.
The AAIB initiated an investigation and constituted a multidisciplinary workforce on 13 June, in accordance with prescribed norms, it mentioned.
The workforce investigating the black field was fashioned in keeping with worldwide requirements and is led by the Director Basic of AAIB, together with technical consultants from AAIB, the US NTSB, an aviation medication specialist, and an air site visitors management (ATC) officer, as per Worldwide Civil Aviation Group (ICAO) guidelines, the federal government clarified.
By June 25, information from the CVR’s reminiscence module had been efficiently retrieved, it mentioned.
Evaluation of the CVR and FDR information is presently underway, the federal government added, noting that the efforts purpose to reconstruct the sequence of occasions resulting in the accident and to establish contributing elements as a way to improve aviation security and stop future occurrences.
India, as a signatory to the Chicago Conference (1944) of the ICAO, investigates plane accidents in accordance with ICAO Annex 13 and the Plane (Investigation of Accidents and Incidents) Guidelines, 2017.
“All actions have been taken in full compliance with home legal guidelines and worldwide obligations in a time-bound method,” the federal government concluded.
