Investigators usually face prolonged delays in air crash probes when broken black containers should be despatched to unique gear producers for extracting information.
Both black containers had been discovered inside per week of the June 12 crash in Ahmedabad. (REUTERS)
A crew led by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), the designated authority for air crash investigations in India, extracted each cockpit voice recorder and flight information recorder information after the units had been recovered from the crash web site and flown to the bureau’s lab in Delhi, the federal government mentioned in an announcement. The crew, arrange in accordance with International Civil Aviation Organisation norms, is led by the Director General of AAIB and consists of technical specialists from AAIB and the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), an aviation medication specialist and an ATC (air visitors management) officer, the federal government mentioned.
The assertion signifies an important break within the investigation. Investigators usually face prolonged delays in air crash probes when broken black containers should be despatched to unique gear producers for extracting the info.
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The Boeing 787 has two black containers, one at every finish of the plane, for redundancy. Each black field, which is actually colored shiny orange, in a 787 incorporates what is named the improved airborne information recorder (EADR) that features the flight information recorder (FDR) and the cockpit voice recorder (CVR).
One set was recovered from a rooftop of a constructing on the crash web site on June 13 and the opposite from the wreckage on June 16 and saved below police safety and CCTV surveillance.
Shortly after takeoff, the plane crashed right into a medical faculty complicated in close by Meghaninagar and burst into flames, killing 241 of the 242 passengers and crew on board and at the very least 19 extra within the neighborhood. The tail of the plane that was lodged on the roof of the mess of the residential wing of the medical faculty and different particles strewn over the location are being shifting to a constructing on the airport premises.
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“..The black containers had been introduced from Ahmedabad to Delhi by IAF plane with full safety on 24 June, 2025. The entrance black field arrived at AAIB Lab, Delhi with the DG (director basic) of AAIB at 1400 hrs on 24 June, 2025,” the assertion mentioned.
“The rear black field was introduced by a second AAIB crew and reached AAIB Lab, Delhi at 1715 hrs on 24 June,” it added.
Efforts to extract information started the identical night.
“The Crash Protection 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 evaluation of cockpit voice recorder and flight information recorder information, the federal government mentioned, goals to reconstruct the sequence of occasions resulting in the accident and determine contributing components to reinforce aviation security and forestall future occurrences.
India, as a signatory to the (ICAO) Chicago Convention (1944), investigates plane accidents in accordance with ICAO Annex 13 and the Aircraft (Investigation of Accidents and Incidents) Rules, 2017. “All actions have been taken in full compliance with home legal guidelines and worldwide obligations in a time certain method,” the federal government mentioned.
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