Air India black box damaged, to be sent to US to decode crash mystery: Report
India is likely to send the black box recovered from the ill-fated Air India flight AI 171, which crashed in Ahmedabad last week, to the United States for data recovery as the recorder sustained heavy external damage due to the fire, a report in Economic Times said.Presently, India is not equipped to extract data from black boxes that have sustained heavy damage. Thus, according to the report, the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) will be sent to the Washington-based laboratory of the National Safety Transport Board (NTSB) for analysis.advertisementThe report will then be shared with the government's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), which is probing the horrific crash.
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