Air India Ahmedabad-London flight Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashes near airport in Ahmedabad

you haven't ever seen ntsb with their investigation practices right? thee are the same people who leaked their report because the Egyptian government wanted to save their own image.

go read up about that, NTSB folks do not **** around with politics, it's much more likely for Indian government to suppress the report to save Air India's image
Yeh bhi sahi hai.
Hamare yeha bhi golmaal hai sab.
 
If we are going to rely on them to extract data then it means we will be at their mercy for fair investigation.

No other option really. Let them just analyze it and hopefully the results come out soon. So many theories about how the aircraft met it's doom are floating around now so we need some level of clarity.

Huge discussion going on Airliners (dot)net forum as well and PPrune(dot)org. Mods closed the thread on PPrune because it was leading to many guesswork theories. Airliners forum discussion is still on and quite insightful.
 
Rising incidence of flights returning in the days after the crash is a very strong signal that security measures were being ignored amid breakneck growth in recent years.

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Rising incidence of flights returning in the days after the crash is a very strong signal that security measures were being ignored amid breakneck growth in recent years.

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I read that Boeing had manufactured 11 787s that had safety and structural issues and were flagged by their internal safety auditor. Management told her, "Don't worry, none of these planes will be used in the United States." 6 of those 11 were sold to Air India, including the one that crashed. Apparently DGCA knew something was amiss, but never raised any alarm then.


"Cynthia Kitchens, a former quality manager who worked at the Charleston plant between 2009 and 2016, has a binder full of notes, documents and photos from her frustrating years at Boeing, one page of which lists the numbers of the eleven planes delivered between early 2012 and late 2013 whose quality defects most kept her awake at night. Six of them went to Air India, whose purchases were bolstered by billions of dollars in Export-Import Bank loan guarantees. The plane that crashed was delivered in January 2014 from Boeing’s now-defunct assembly line in Everett, Washington, though its mid- and aft- fuselages were produced in Charleston."
 
Apparently DGCA knew something was amiss, but never raised any alarm then.
“We were threatened with termination for telling the truth,” their letter stated. The attendants, both of whom have served Air India for over 20 years, claim the airline and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) suppressed the incident and failed to launch a formal investigation.
 
you haven't ever seen ntsb with their investigation practices right? thee are the same people who leaked their report because the Egyptian government wanted to save their own image.

go read up about that, NTSB folks do not **** around with politics, it's much more likely for Indian government to suppress the report to save Air India's image
It was the French BEA, not NTSB. And they published their report independently, not leaked it, because the Egyptian government gained more from the propaganda of it being a terrorist attack and not having to admit their pilot smoking in the cockpit against the rules.

But in general, the general lack of understanding of how all these investigation agencies have made air travel safer over the years is astounding. People just find it easier to accept conspiracy theories because a logical explanation, that will also be in the current investigation report, is too simple.
 
It was the French BEA, not NTSB. And they published their report independently, not leaked it, because the Egyptian government gained more from the propaganda of it being a terrorist attack and not having to admit their pilot smoking in the cockpit against the rules.

But in general, the general lack of understanding of how all these investigation agencies have made air travel safer over the years is astounding. People just find it easier to accept conspiracy theories because a logical explanation, that will also be in the current investigation report, is too simple.
ah yea you are right if was the BEA,
 
ah yea you are right if was the BEA,
Yeah, but your point was also valid that governments can block final reports from being officially published as was the case with the Egyptian government then.

Think they finally published their report last year after 8 years and maintained the terrorist angle but were forced to add the French report as an appendix.

This gives more credibility to reports coming out from NTSB and BEA than government bodies.
 
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Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu on Tuesday said the black box of the Air India plane which crashed in Ahmedabad earlier this month was being examined by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau, and dismissed speculation that it would be sent abroad for an inquiry.

I hope the AAIB can analyze and extract the needed info.
 
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U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chair Jennifer Homendy told reporters in Washington on Tuesday that she has had "excellent communication with those within the Indian government, the Ministry of Civil Aviation, also our counterpart at the AAIB."
Asked where or when the recorders will be read or if they would come to the United States or whether officials had any concerns, Homendy declined to comment.

"That is something that has to be worked out," Homendy said. "When it comes to aviation safety, learning information shortly thereafter and obtaining that information is a key part of the investigative process, so clearly that's going to help us glean more information to ensure, 'Is there a safety issue or safety deficiency that needs to be addressed?'"

Homendy also declined to comment on whether either recorder had been damaged.

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U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chair Jennifer Homendy told reporters in Washington on Tuesday that she has had "excellent communication with those within the Indian government, the Ministry of Civil Aviation, also our counterpart at the AAIB."
Asked where or when the recorders will be read or if they would come to the United States or whether officials had any concerns, Homendy declined to comment.

"That is something that has to be worked out," Homendy said. "When it comes to aviation safety, learning information shortly thereafter and obtaining that information is a key part of the investigative process, so clearly that's going to help us glean more information to ensure, 'Is there a safety issue or safety deficiency that needs to be addressed?'"

Homendy also declined to comment on whether either recorder had been damaged.

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The other Boeing incidents were also covered in the same briefing.

 
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As suspected . Indians will not hand over the black box ?
We do not have the facility to decode them , yet we will not ship them to Boeing ?
Clear smell of sabotage than anything else .
Like the Egypt case mentioned earlier in this thread, you do get an uneasy feeling when investigation agencies are not delinked from the political setup completely.

However, since this is a joint investigation, we will come to know if the data is not shared with NTSB or the UK AAIB, which would provide a good idea of the investigation is motivated by other factors.

Mostly I think not because India is now too globalised to allow these kind of things to happen.
 
Like the Egypt case mentioned earlier in this thread, you do get an uneasy feeling when investigation agencies are not delinked from the political setup completely.

However, since this is a joint investigation, we will come to know if the data is not shared with NTSB or the UK AAIB, which would provide a good idea of the investigation is motivated by other factors.

Mostly I think not because India is now too globalised to allow these kind of things to happen.
From the time of crash , every day there is some news or the other about Air India . Seems like some crony desires it and Modi wants to help . When Pahlgam happened , there was so much news against Celebi and then Celebi got taken over by Adani .
 
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I don't know why India didn't send the Black Boxes to the NTSB or some other agency in Europe for analysis and date recovery? They clearly stated their lab here doesn't have the necessary equipment to analyze and retrieve the needed data from the Black Boxes then why are they hanging onto them and delaying the entire process?