Efforts underway to analyze black box data from Air India plane crash, says Government

The Union Civil Aviation Ministry stated that efforts are ongoing to reconstruct the sequence of events that led to the fatal Air India plane crash on June 12. A team, led by the chief of the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), is investigating the Ahmedabad plane crash and extracting data from the black boxes.

On June 24, a team led by DG AAIB, along with technical members from AAIB and the US-based The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), started extracting data from the black boxes. The Crash Protection Module (CPM) from the front black box was retrieved safely, and on June 25, 2025, the memory module was accessed and its data downloaded at the AAIB Lab.

The London-bound Air India flight AI-171, carrying 242 passengers and crew members, crashed in Ahmedabad on June 12. The analysis of CVR (cockpit voice recorder) and FDR (flight data recorder) data is currently underway.

Both black boxes were recovered—one from a rooftop of the building at the crash site on June 13, 2025, and the other from the debris on June 16, 2025. The black boxes were then transported to Delhi with full security on June 24, 2025. The multidisciplinary team was constituted promptly following the accident, in line with prescribed norms.