Experts: Black Boxes increase clarity to Air India flight accident

Experts: Black Boxes increase clarity to Air India flight accident
Washington, DC - Investigators recovered the equipment from the tragic aircraft accident this week in Ahmedabad, India, that could provide information about the last moments in the cockpit. The Cockpit Voice recorder and the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner flight data recorder were recovered by the roof of the dormitory of a medical university, where the aircraft crashed. This data could calm down some of the speculation about the examination, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) , India or another country will analyze the data of the Black Boxes, explained Peter Goelz, former managing director of the NTSB and aviation expert from CNN. "It's pretty dramatic," said Goelz. "It looked for me as if the plane wanted to try to land in the end. It was in the descent, but we will only know when we have the boxes back."
important knowledge from the investigation
The Bureau for air accident investigations in India has the recorder and other possible evidence for the examination. The data recorder is expected to give an insight into what happened during the last moments of the flight when the pilots had to make critical decisions. Less than a minute after the start, the crew members made a Mayday emergency call to the air traffic control, according to the Indian civil aviation authorities.
The fatal crash has strengthened interest in air safety worldwide and fueled the public's fears regarding flying. This year there have been several aviation triagoma and incidents, including a collision between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and a regional jet from American Airlines in January, which led to demands for increased security measures.
Boeing's Dreamliner in focus
The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner is highly valued by many aviation experts due to its reliability and engineering. In the past 14 years, the fleet has promoted more than 1 billion passengers, according to Boeing . "It is really an amazing plane, and when they designed it, it was a completely different production than what Boeing usually created," said Erika "> Armstrong , pilot and marketing manager at the Advanced Aircrew Academy.
In recent years, the company is faced with increasing criticism due to crashes in its aircraft, which for the 20- airplanes After two fatal crashes, in conjunction with Financial difficulties .
The further course of the investigation
Goelz said that the tragedy "could not be worse for Boeing", which is part of the examination, as well as GE Aerospace, the engine manufacturer of the aircraft. In the United States, the aircraft manufacturer will be under pressure at the end of the month if the investigators are expected to determine the cause of the loss of in-flight component in the plug of a Boeing 737-9 civil aircraft near Portland, Oregon.
Boeing-CEO Ortberg also supposedly canceled the Paris aviation exhibition, an important event of the Aerospace industry on which the company typically presents its aircraft.
"This accident is another challenge," said Goelz. The Dreamliner is particularly popular with International routes, whereby the 787-8 configuration can record up to 248 passengers, Boeing.
prospects for the investigators
The NTSB announced CNN on Friday that the investigators will probably travel to India in the next few days. Jeff Guzzetti NTSB official, explained that these investigations usually hold an "organizational meeting" in which all technical experts come together, describing his own experience with accidents.
"You will form special groups" who are commissioned to analyze various areas such as the engines or the flight data writer, he said. "You will use representatives of the various organizations in these groups, and they start systematically to document the wreck and read out the recorder."
The crash falls under the jurisdiction of the International Civil Aviation Organization, the UN Agency, which works together in aviation 193 countries. Guzzetti explained that the examination is in the phase of finding facts, the clean -up work of the wreck and interview with those who trained the pilots. The background of captain and first officer is examined, including sleeping habits and flight experiences.
The recovery of the Black Boxes is crucial, many experts say because the technology shows what the pilots said before their Mayday emergency call. "This will no longer be a mystery when the data has been recorded, and the language recorder will also explain what the pilots believed to have to do it," said Goelz. "Sometimes pilots make mistakes, you never know."