ONE of the pilots operating the doomed Air India flight asked why fuel was cut off just seconds after takeoff, a preliminary report has found. Initial investigation of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner’s

A Golden Chassis is a specialised tool used to recover data from damaged flight recorders. It consists of an identical, undamaged unit of the same model as the affected recorder and is used to interfa

The Enhanced Airborne Flight Recorders, or black boxes, of AI-171 that crashed in Ahmedabad | Photo Credit: Special arrangement

CRASH investigators are said to be probing the medical records of the doomed Air India flight’s captain amid claims he suffered from mental health problems. A preliminary report into the

Due to the extensive damage sustained in the crash, India sought assistance from the US NTSB, which provided the Golden Chassis and specialised cables to extract data from the black boxes.

A preliminary report depicted confusion in the cockpit shortly before an Air India jetliner crashed, killing more than 200 people last month, after the plane's engine fuel cut-off switches almost simultaneously flipped off,

Cockpit voice recordings obtained from the black box provide insight into the final moments. One pilot was heard asking, “Why did you cut off the fuel?”, to which the other replied, “I did not do so.”

Flight AI423 crashed shortly after takeoff due to a dual engine failure triggered by the fuel cutoff switches being inexplicably moved to the CUTOFF position. Despite attempts to relight the engines,

A Golden Chassis from the United States helped download 49 hours of flight data from one of the black boxes of Air India's ill-fated Boeing 787-8 aircraft that crashed last month.