Aurobindo Handa: ‘Collecting evidences; process to appoint investigators under way’
The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) — which is probing the crash of the Air India Express-operated Boeing 737-800 plane at Kozhikode on August 7 — is still in the process of appointing investigators to look into the incident even as the evidence is being collected, AAIB’s Director General Aurobindo Handa told Pranav Mukul in an e-mail interview. Investigators have so fartaken custody of plane’s black boxes, the digital flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorderm and they are being analysed. Excerpts:
What stage is the investigation into the Air India Express mishap at Kozhikode currently at?









