Air India 171 crash: Unraveling black box analysis

India Jun 30, 2025

The investigation into the Air India Boeing 787-8 crash is now centered on decoding the black boxes in Delhi.
Sadly, this was the deadliest airline accident in India in 40 years and the first fatal crash for a Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
Investigators hope the data will help explain how things went so wrong.

US-India team working to decode data

The Enhanced Airborne Flight Recorders (EAFRs), recovered from Ahmedabad, are packed with flight details and cockpit recordings—about 2,000 different data points.
Experts from India and the US are teaming up to sift through all this info, aiming to figure out if there were technical issues or human errors behind the tragedy.
It's a detailed process that could take weeks but is vital for answers.