The government body investigating the Air India Boeing 787-8 crash in Ahmedabad last week will take a decision on where the black box data will be decoded “after due assessment of all technical, safety, and security considerations,” the Ministry of Civil Aviation said on Thursday (June 19, 2025).
The statement said two different sets of black boxes were recovered from the crash site, one on June 13 and another on June 16. Each black box unit comprises the Digital Flight Data Recorder (DFDR) and Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR).
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“This model of aircraft has two black box sets,” the press statement said about the Boeing 787-8 aircraft involved in the crash. Veteran pilots explained that these are called Extended Airborne Flight Recorders (EAFR), of which one unit is in the nose and one in the tail section for redundancy (or fall back).
When last time the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) investigated an airline crash, involving the Air India Express accident in August 2020 in Calicut that killed 21 out of the total 190 onboard, the black box was sent to the lab of the American apex body for probing air crashes, National Transportation Safety Board.
