Air India Plane Crash Being Probed From All Angles, Including Possible Sabotage: Union Minister

Investigations into the Air India Flight AI-171 crash are intensifying, with “possible sabotage” as one of the angles under scrutiny, Hindustan Times reported.

Flight AI-171, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, crashed shortly after departing Ahmedabad on 12 June, marking the first fatal accident involving the Dreamliner model.

The probe of the accident is being led by Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), India’s top agency for aviation crash investigations.

“The AAIB has begun a full investigation into it... It is being probed from all angles, including any possible sabotage. The CCTV footage are being reviewed and all angles are being assessed... several agencies are working on it," NDTV quoted Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Murlidhar Mohol, as saying at an event in Pune.

Following the accident, the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) and flight data recorder (FDR) or black boxes were recovered and transferred to Delhi for analysis.

The Civil Aviation Ministry earlier confirmed that the Crash Protection Module (CPM) from the front black box was safely retrieved, and on 25 June 2025, the memory module was successfully accessed and its data downloaded at the AAIB lab.

A multidisciplinary team, comprising Indian and foreign experts, has been assembled under international guidelines.

Investigators are reportedly exploring scenarios ranging from power loss, engine failure, system malfunction, and human error.

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