Nearly 10 days after the tragic Air India flight crash in Ahmedabad on June 12 that claimed 241 lives, the aircraft’s black box remains unopened, leaving the cause of the disaster shrouded in mystery.

From a lack of MRO capacity to poor Black Box recovery systems — is India’s aviation sector still ‘on a wing and a prayer’?

India can code for the world, but can’t decode its own black box. This deficiency risks incomplete investigation, warns an aviation expert.

Handa, who led AAIB during the probe into the 2020 Air India Express crash in Kozhikode, emphasised that although ...