26/06/2025
Information from the black boxes recovered from the June 12 Air India crash has been successfully downloaded and is being analysed, Indian government officials said Thursday afternoon.
The black boxes were damaged in the crash and there were questions over the recovery of usable data. Last week sources told media the government may send the FDR and CVR to the United States for forensic extraction of data. However, the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau has succeeded in safely extracting the Crash Protection Module, or CPM, and the memory module, and downloaded all data.
The government said both boxes - one found on the rooftop of the college hostel into which the plane crashed and the other in debris from the crash - were transported to the AAIB lab in New Delhi on Tuesday and the data was extracted successfully the same day.
"Analysis of CVR and FDR data is underway. These efforts aim to reconstruct sequence of events leading to the accident and identify contributing factors to enhance aviation safety," the government said.