Air India Express crash | Boeing likely to send technical team to examine debris of flight: Report

Boeing has offered Air India support and is likely to soon send a technical team to examine debris of the Boeing 737-800 aircraft which crashed on August 7 at the table-top airport in Kerala's Kozhikode city.

The company in a statement said it is “prepared to provide a technical team to assist the US National Transportation Safety Board, as the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) of India conducts its investigation,” said a report by Mint. This is in accordance to ICAO Annex 13 guidelines, it added.

The move comes after the Civil Aviation Ministry’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) on August 9 said it has recovered the plane’s black box and will retrieve transcripts from it to investigate the incident.

India’s Director General of Civil Aviation Arun Kumar told ANI, “We are going to talk to Boeing to examine the aircraft’s original equipment for defects. Adding that only a “thorough and unbiased probe” would reveal what happened.

AAIB’s Aurobindo Handa did not respond to queries, the report said.

The aircraft maker further expressed “deepest condolences to family and friends” of the deceased and said they hoped for “swift recovery of passengers and crew who were injured,” as per the report.