Air India Crash Investigation: From Black Box Retrieval to AAIB’s preliminary report – a timeline of major events | Bharat News

While the preliminary report came beyond the scanner to give and additional details, but select, Main Yugandhar said: “AAIB’s investigation and initial report aims to provide information about ‘what’ … At this stage, at this stage, it is too early to reach any certain conclusion. The investigation is not complete.

As the AAIB -led investigation is being seen globally, the investigation so far has a timeline of major events:

📌June 12-II-171 Crash

On 12 June (Thursday), Boeing Plane-Ne AI 171 from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick crashed at the subsequent moments after the tech-off, killing 260 people, killing 241 out of 242 and 19 on land. According to the 15-Page report, the flight lasted for “about 30 seconds” between the lift-off and the crash.

It was the worst aviation disaster incorporating an Indian airline in at least four decades, and the first fatal accident of 787 Dreamliner, Boeing’s latest generation wide-body aircraft.

📌june 13 – Enter Aaib, Rear Black Box Found

-Ikraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) started an investigation into Air India crash.

-Tu AFT is found from the roof of the EFT Enhanced Airborne Flight Recording (EAFR) or the Tail section of the aircraft from the roof of the rear black box BJ Medical College Hostel Mess Building. According to officials, it suffered extensive internal thermal damage.

📌june 14 – First Ministry of Aviation Breifeing

Two days after the accident, the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MOCA) organized a briefing, where no questions were taken. Till the release of the official preliminary report, just a few press releases on the investigation status

📌june 15 – NTSB team comes from us

The next day, a team led by NTSB representative including Boeing, GE and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), arrived in Ahmedabad and attended the investigation on site. A team of officials of the Aaib team from the UK also arrived and visited the site with Yugandhar, specifying the initial report.

📌June 16 – Second Black Box Found

The second black box unit (forward EAFR) has also been recovered from the debris at the accident site near Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad. It was burnt and covered in soot.

Two black boxes from General Electric Company (GE.N), one in the front of one aircraft and the other at the back, are installed on 787 jets in Boeing, according to the news agency RootsBoth have a flying data recorder with a cockpit voice recorder and the same set of data.

📌june 24 – Black box reaches Aaib HQ

Both EAFRs are taken from Ahmedabad to New Delhi to AAIB facility.

The report of damaged flight recorders’ data was downloaded by Aaib after sourcing ‘Golden Chassis’ and after relevant download cables from DGCA and other accident investigating officers, the report states.

Here, the required ‘Golden Chesis’ (EAFR Unit) and download cables were obtained from the US on 23 June through NTSB.

The downloaded flight data had about 49 hours of flight data and 6 flights, including an event flight.

📌 Julie 12 – AAIB’s preliminary investigation report released

conclusion The most detailed description of the incident was awarded on 12 June from the preliminary inquiry report released by AAIB.

It was discovered that the engine fuel control switch of the aircraft was changed from ‘run’ to ‘cutoff’ position within moments of each other after lift-off. To ensure that the report is not mentioned that the fuel control switch – which allows and cut the fuel flow in the anxis of the aircraft – physically moved, and uses the term “transition” to describe the change of mode from run to cutoffs. It also does not state that they were transferred by any pilots.

From the cockpit voice recorder data, the initial inquiry reports that one of the pilots asked the other why he cut the fuel, for which the other pilot replied that he was not. The pilot flying co-pilot was Clive Kundar, while the pilot-in-command Sumate Sabarwal was monitoring the pilot for the flight.

The report also stated that no recommended action was taken for Boeing or GE at this stage, showing that there was no possibility of mistake in aircraft or engine.

📌 July 17 – Aaib Chief Release Statement

In an appeal issued on Thursday, AAIB Director General Yugandhar urged the public and the media to “avoid spreading stories before time”. He also said that the international media section “repeatedly trying to conclude through selective and rejected reporting”, and is called “irresponsible” as the investigation is still on.

Meanwhile, in the meantime, The Indian Express Told that investigator Technical Snag’s history and the possibility of system malfunctions were investigating which could affect FADEC (full authority digital engine control) engine control unit (aircraft’s brain) to trigger “precious” functions.

📌 July 19 – NTSB chief on crash investigation media report

Urge everyone to avoid speculation, Chief of US investigating agency Jennifer Homendi recently called media reports “premature and speculative” about the possible causes of the accident.

This comes close to the heels of reports by some US-based publications, suggests that the intentional action by one of the pilots was the cause of the accident.