‘Should not arrive at conclusions’: Govt says AAIB report not remaining, says probe nonetheless on

The Ministry of Civil Aviation on Saturday stated that the report printed by the
Plane Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) is preliminary and urged that conclusions shouldn’t be made on the crash of the Air India flight till the ultimate report is launched.

MoS Civil Aviation Murlidhar Mohol stated, “The AAIB has introduced out a preliminary report. This isn’t the ultimate report. Till the ultimate report comes out, we must always not arrive at any conclusion. AAIB is an autonomous authority, and the ministry doesn’t intrude of their work.”

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On Saturday, AAIB printed its preliminary report on the crash of Air India flight from Ahmedabad to London, revealing that the mishap occurred after each engines had shut down seconds after takeoff.

Air India’s Boeing 787-8 airplane that was working flight AI 171 from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick on June 12, crashed seconds after takeoff, killing a complete of 260 individuals, together with many on the bottom.

The 15-page-long report additionally famous that Engine 1 and Engine 2 gas cutoff switches transitioned from RUN to CUTOFF inside one second of one another. This implies the engines of the plane have been utterly starved of gas provide.

Speaking in regards to the black field of the Dreamliner plane, Mohol stated, “Now we have sufficient assets to probe black packing containers of crashed plane on our personal. Earlier, they needed to be despatched exterior for investigations.”

“AAIB is an impartial physique and operates with none interference from the federal government. However it isn’t superb to touch upon its report simply but, because the investigation into the crash is ongoing. The black field continues to be being probed,” he added.

To publish its preliminary report, the
AAIB investigated the wreckage of the location actions, together with Drone images/videography and each engines of the plane have been retrieved from the wreckage web site and quarantined at a hangar within the airport.

Gas Samples have been taken from the browsers and tanks used to refuel the plane have been examined on the DGCA’s Lab and located passable. A really restricted variety of gas samples might be retrieved from the APU filter and Refuel/Jettison valve of the left wing. The testing of those samples can be executed at an appropriate facility able to finishing up the check with the restricted out there amount.