Mumbai: The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has ended this week as a 30-day limit to submit a report of preliminary inquiry into an Air India accident at Ahmedabad, it is expected that India will release it to the public.The investigation to make the ICAO report public does not hold any obligation on the country and India did not release the initial report of the final major accident in Calicat in 2020. But the AI 171 is being done with deep interest by the global airline industry after investigation because it was the first head to include Boeing 787.In addition to the roles and responsibilities of Air India, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, and others, will significantly be the Boeing 787 system-level case study. This is the first such global investigation of the ‘more electric’ B787 aircraft. The initial conclusion, if enough and important, can reopen the operation of B787, “a senior commander said, requesting oblivion.” What we hear is that India will make public the initial report this time, “he said.Prior to the June 12 accident, the last major fatal accident India’s investigation included Boeing 737 and 21 deaths in the August 2020 Calicate Air India Express Express accident. Subsequently, the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) did not release its preliminary report to the public.Since an aircraft accident is investigated completely to learn a lesson and prevent a repeat – unlike an investigation into a murder, it blames the culprits or does not detect the culprits – most countries release their initial conclusions to the public.Last time the global aviation industry closely tracked an accident investigation in 2018 after Indonesian Sher Air Boeing 737 Max Crash on 29 October. With the 30-day deadline on 28 November, Indonesia’s National Transport Safety Committee sent a preliminary report to ICAO and released it publicly. In fact, it has been announced in advance that the initial report would be uploaded on its website on November 28 at 10 am.
“Preliminary investigation after the Lion Air Flight 610 revealed that before the accident, a system that is called an increase in characteristics attached without knowledge of the lion air pilots is called a system or MCA. Subsequently, Boeing did not reveal MCAS for any airlines or pilots. MCAS automatically reduces the nose to prevent a stall, or to prevent lift loss, if it finds out that the nasal angle of the aircraft is very high relative to the ground. What we have learned from the initial report is that a malfunction sensor may have motivated MCAS to engage again and again, competing with pilots’ maneuvers, “B737 examiner said. When the Ethiopian Airlines B737 Max crashed after five months, the lion was an air initial report that came back to notice. The final report in Lion Air Crash came a year later; Till then, the B737 Max was already on the ground globally, ”he said. “If the Air India accident initial report indicates any possible warning or technical defect in B787, you can imagine the effect on Dreamliner Operations globally,” the examiner said. Among all the accident investigations conducted by India in the last decades, this is certainly the most followed investigation globally. The AAIB may submit the preliminary report to the Ministry of Civil Aviation if it chooses. Under the Annex 13 of ICAO, which leaves the guidelines to investigate the accident, the initial report is to be presented by the state (India, in the case) within 30 days of the incident.
