Overview

• Air India training pilots recreated landing-gear-down and flaps-retracted conditions in simulators and found those settings alone could not cause a crash
• The Ram Air Turbine activated seconds before impact, signaling a major electrical or power failure scenario
• AAIB teams have extracted data from both the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder and are decoding it at their Delhi laboratory
• A preliminary report from the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau is expected by July 11 to outline early findings on the dual-engine outage theory
• The DGCA has ordered one-time safety inspections of Air India’s Boeing 787 fleet and convened a high-level safety panel to review wider Dreamliner protocols