Black Box Recovered from Crashed Air India Flight; Investigation Underway into Ahmedabad Tragedy

New Delhi (The Uttam Hindu): 27 hours after the Air India flight AI-171 accident in Ahmedabad, the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) has found the black box on Friday. It was found on the roof of the hostel. Through this, it will be known what happened in the last moments before the crash.

The black box was reportedly found on the roof of the doctors' hostel where the plane crashed. A team of the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) recovered the black box with the help of 40 Gujarat government personnel. On June 12, an Air India flight from Ahmedabad to London crashed soon after taking off from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport. The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft had 230 passengers and 12 crew members, a total of 242 people on board, of which only one person survived.

The plane took off from Ahmedabad airport at 1.17 pm and was scheduled to reach London at 6.09 pm. However, it crashed in a densely populated area near the airport moments after takeoff. The black box is an important part of the aircraft. It is a small machine that records information about an aircraft during its operation. A kind of flight recorder, the black box was created in the early 1950s and was designed to withstand explosions, fire, water pressure and high-speed crashes. The black box was invented by Australian scientist David Ronald D May Warren and is used to know the reason behind an airplane crash. Generally, a black box consists of two recorders, a cockpit voice recorder for the pilot's voice and cockpit sound and a separate flight data recorder that logs important technical parameters including altitude, speed, engine thrust and flight path data.

Black box will reveal the secret of the crash

There have been cases when a plane has crashed into water. Therefore, to make black boxes discoverable underwater, they contain a beacon that sends ultrasound signals for up to 30 days. There are four parts inside the black box, including the underwater locator beacon, an interface to facilitate recording and playback, the recording chip on the circuit board, and a memory unit that can survive crashes and withstand a force equivalent to 3,400 times the force of gravity. The black box helps investigators solve the events that lead to the crash. It tells everyone what happened in the cockpit and aircraft systems.