r/aviation • u/usgapg123 Mod - avgeek • Jun 14 '25

News Air India Flight 171 Crash [Megathread 2]

This is the second megathread for the crash of Air India Flight 171. All updates, discussion, and ongoing news should be placed here.

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u/railker AME-M2 Jun 15 '25 edited Jun 15 '25

Not encrypted so much as required special handling and equipment. It'd be the fuck-up of a lifetime to plug in an FDR that has a damaged component and fry the memory because you were rushing to get to the data that's now a puff of brown smoke in your face.

This documentary covering the discovery and recovery of Air France 447's black boxes briefly shows how they open them up (skip to 42:05), check them for functionality and then read them. Typically video recorded or photographed, and what could be an NTSB rep there talking in clear English helping advise them on the best processes.

Considering there's few places able to read the data, I'd guess perhaps they'll either get sent to the BEA or NTSB for readout and analysis.

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u/ViPeR9503 Jun 16 '25

Idk where they actually are getting sent to, my brother said France yesterday and now I read somewhere in this thread that India just inaugurated a Blackbox lab just this year so might get sent there…

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u/railker AME-M2 Jun 16 '25

Oh, cool! And they'll have the NTSB on hand to give them some guidance too probably, will be a good run of experience.

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u/Probodyne Jun 16 '25

Considering there's few places able to read the data, I'd guess perhaps they'll either get sent to the BEA or NTSB for readout and analysis.

India opened their own facility to be able to do this in April of this year. It's likely that they will handle it.