One pilot can be heard on the cockpit voice recorder asking the other why he cut off the fuel. The other pilot responded that he did not do so, the report said.
Both black boxes were recovered from the crash site between 13 and 16 June in Ahmedabad and then flown to Delhi on 24 June for analysis to aid the ongoing investigation.
Experts have floated multiple theories behind the crash, including a rarest of rare double-engine failure, complete electrical failure, bird hits, and the soaring temperatures of Ahmedabad.
At 1.39 pm Thursday, the London-bound AI flight, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, crashed in Ahmedabad, claiming 241 lives on board the flight. Only 1 escaped.
Gen Bipin Rawat, the country's first CDS, his wife and 11 others were killed when the Mi-17VH helicopter they were travelling in crashed, leaving only one survivor.
The device is expected to help investigators determine what caused the Boeing 737-500 plane to nosedive into the ocean shortly after takeoff Saturday, killing 62 people.
For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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