Overview

• The AAIB submitted its 30-day preliminary report to the civil aviation ministry on July 8, and officials say it will be made public later this week.
• The report outlines aircraft and crew data, weather conditions, aerodrome information and initial technical observations without assigning probable causes or safety recommendations.
• Members of the Public Accounts Committee and the Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture have questioned regulators and airline executives on investigation progress and sector safety protocols.
• The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has ordered enhanced inspections of Air India’s Boeing 787-8 fleet, prompting the carrier to cut 15 percent of its international wide-body services through mid-July.
• Investigators achieved India’s first in-country decoding of black box data by using a ‘golden chassis’ test and have completed extraction from both flight recorders recovered after the crash.