Air India crash probe: ‘AAIB totally unbiased…want to stand with truth,’ says Civil Aviation Minister Naidu in Rajya Sabha
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Air India crash probe: ‘AAIB totally unbiased…want to stand with truth,’ says Civil Aviation Minister Naidu in Rajya Sabha
Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu Monday said the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) is “totally unbiased” and is carrying out a definitive and rule-based probe. The minister was speaking in Rajya Sabha on the Day 1 of the Monsoon session after a series of questions were raised on the ongoing AAIB-led investigation into the June 12 Air India plane accident. The full report is expected in about a year’s time.
The minister was speaking in Rajya Sabha on the Day 1 of the Monsoon session after a series of questions were raised on the ongoing AAIB-led investigation into the June 12 Air India plane accident.
“We want to stand with truth, not anything else… we want to find out what exactly happened in the Air India plane crash and that will come out only after AAIB final probe report,” Naidu said, addressing speculations over the AAIB’s preliminary probe report on the Ahmedabad-London Gatwick bound plane, released on July 12.
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Naidu also said that in a first-of-its-kind instance, the AAIB has been successful in decoding data from the black boxes of the crashed Air India plane in India itself.
The autonomous body’s team probing the Boeing Dreamliner 787-8 crash is a multidisciplinary team, including its AAIB Director General GVG Yugandhar, an aviation medicine specialist, an air traffic control officer, and representatives from the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
While the initial report came under the scanner for being worded beyond the mandate and giving additional details, but selectively, chief Yugandhar said: “The purpose of the AAIB’s investigation and preliminary report is to provide information about ‘WHAT’ happened… At this stage, it is too early to reach to any definite conclusions. The investigation…is still not complete. The Final Investigation Report will come out with root causes and recommendations,” The full report is expected in about a year’s time.
On June 12 (Thursday), the Boeing plane —operating flight AI 171 from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick— crashed moments after take-off, killing 260 people, including 241 of the 242 on board and 19 on the ground. According to the 15-page report, the flight lasted “around 30 seconds” between lift-off and crash.
Investigation bureau totally unbiased, carrying out rule-based probe into Ahmedabad plane crash: Naidu
The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) is “totally unbiased” and is carrying out a definitive, thorough and rule-based probe. Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu said the AAIB has been successful in decoding data from black boxes of the crashed Air India plane.
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“We want to stand with truth, not anything else…we want to find out what exactly happened in the Air India plane crash and that will come out only after AAIB final probe report,” Naidu told Rajya Sabha amid speculation about the factors that could have led to the crash that killed 260 people in Ahmedabad last month.
Responding to supplementaries in the Upper House, the civil aviation minister said the AAIB has been successful in decoding data from black boxes of the crashed Air India plane.
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On June 12, Air India’s Boeing 787-8 aircraft en route from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick crashed into a building soon after take-off.
“AAIB follows a definitive, rule-based process, totally unbiased in probing the Air India Ahmedabad plane crash,” Naidu said.
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On July 12, AAIB released its preliminary report into the crash.
On July 17, AAIB said it is too early to draw any “definite conclusions” on what led to the Air India plane crash, as the probe is still on and that the final report will come out with the root causes, while it urged everyone to refrain from spreading premature narratives.