Now, AI crash inquiry to focus on forensic analysis, flight data

Mother of First Officer Clive Kunder, the co-pilot of the crashed Air India plane, breaks down during a supplication gathering successful Mumbai. PTI

With the preliminary probe into past month’s Air India AI171 clang present public, the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) has outlined the adjacent phases of its inquiry, focusing connected forensic analysis, constituent testing, and elaborate formation information examination.

According to the report, portion drone mapping, wreckage recovery, and archetypal substance prime tests person been completed, investigators are present entering a much evidence-driven phase.

Key components from the aircraft, including some engines, person been quarantined for further examination. Small residual substance samples from the aircraft’s systems are yet to acquisition specialised testing, fixed their constricted quantity.

Investigators are besides analysing cockpit dependable and formation information from the guardant Enhanced Airborne Flight Recorder (EAFR), which captured the last 2 hours of audio, including the moments starring up to the crash. Witness and surviving rider statements person already been recorded.

The AAIB noted that post-mortem reports of some unit and passengers are being examined successful conjunction with engineering assessments, to cheque for immoderate aesculapian oregon physiological factors that whitethorn person contributed to the incident.

At this stage, the AAIB has not issued immoderate information recommendations for Boeing 787-8 operators oregon GE GEnx-1B motor manufacturers. However, officials clarified that the probe remains unfastened and that much grounds is being gathered from assorted stakeholders.

According to officials,

the last study is expected lone aft a broad reappraisal of each engineering, aeromedical, and operational aspects.

Meanwhile, Civil Aviation Minister Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu stressed that the probe study carried lone preliminary findings. “I don’t deliberation we should leap to immoderate conclusions implicit this,” helium told reporters successful Visakhapatnam and astatine the aforesaid clip commended the probe team.