Air investigators have begun analysing data from black boxes recovered from the Air India plane that crashed in Ahmedabad earlier this month.
Authorities successfully recovered the first data from the two black boxes and ‘analysis is underway’, India’s Aviation Ministry said today.
It added: “These efforts aim to reconstruct the sequence of events leading to the accident and identify contributing factors to enhance aviation safety and prevent further occurrences.
“On the evening on June 24, the team led by DG Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau… began the date extraction process. The ‘crash protection module’ (CPM) from the front black box was safely retrieved, and on June 25, the memory module was successfully accessed and its data downloaded at the AAIB lab.”
All but one of the 242 passengers on the Gatwick-bound flight, and at least 19 people on the ground, were killed when the plane crashed on 12 June.
