The Parliamentary Committee on Transport has summoned Boeing executives, Air India representatives, the Civil Aviation Secretary, and DGCA officers for a dialogue on air issues of safety associated to the tragic Boeing Dreamliner crash inside seconds of take-off from the Ahmedabad airport. The assembly is prone to be held within the first week of July.In keeping with sources, “a number of shortcomings” within the aviation sector, with the upkeep of plane, are actually a matter of giant concern. The committee may also deal with frequent helicopter accidents which have taken place lately on the Char Dham pilgrim route.
Dialogue will embrace the function of the Director Common of Civil Aviation (DGCA), plane upkeep schedules, and the psychological health of pilots, sources mentioned.
The committee’s report will doubtless be tabled within the subsequent session of Parliament.
Earlier than this assembly, the committee is scheduled to carry a session in Gangtok to evaluate air and street connectivity to the northeastern states, with the deal with growing tourism. The committee members are anticipated to journey by an Air India flight to get a first-hand evaluation of the airline and its operations. The DGCA had ordered the rapid elimination of three senior Air India officers, together with a divisional vp, from all tasks associated to flight crew scheduling and rostering as a part of the primary punitive motion after the Boeing crash.
It has additionally requested the Tata Group-owned airline to provoke inside disciplinary proceedings towards the three officers with out additional delay. Failure to take action would lead to extreme motion, together with the potential for the airline dropping its working licence. In the meantime, the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) has begun analysing the black field information recovered from the crash web site of Air India Flight AI171.
“The black packing containers have been introduced from Ahmedabad to Delhi by IAF plane with full safety on 24 June 2025. The entrance black field arrived on the AAIB lab in Delhi with the Director Common (DG) of AAIB at 1400 hrs on 24 June 2025,” in line with an official assertion on Thursday.
“On the night of 24 June 2025, the staff led by the DG of AAIB, together with technical members from AAIB and the US Nationwide Transportation Security Board (NTSB), started the information extraction course of. The Crash Safety Module (CPM) from the entrance black field was safely retrieved, and on 25 June 2025, the reminiscence module was efficiently accessed and its information downloaded on the AAIB lab,” the assertion mentioned.
