Some of these checks could lead to higher turnaround time and potential delays on certain long-haul routes, Air India said.
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00:00From the Ministry, taking utmost seriousness of the incident, the Aircraft Accident Investigation
00:13Bureau, which was formed specifically to look into the incidents, accidents that happened
00:20around aircrafts, was immediately mobilized and the GO team from the AIIB, including five
00:28members constituting DGAIB, was also immediately rushed to the site to start the investigation
00:37process.
00:40And since day one, within hours itself, the AIIB has started its process of investigation.
00:46And yesterday, they have had two more members to the investigation, one from the forensics
00:51team, one from the medical team.
00:54And they would be doing it in future also as necessary, whichever expert is required,
00:59they will be adding them to the investigation.
01:02And one important update from the technical investigation, which is happening through the
01:08AIIB, is the recovery of the black box yesterday around 5pm from the site.
01:17The AIIB team believes that this decoding of the black box is going to give an in-depth
01:25insight into what would have actually happened during the process of the crash or moments
01:34before the crash itself.
01:36So we are also eagerly waiting for what the results or the report is going to be once the AIIB
01:45goes through its full investigation.
01:47We have a very strict safety standards in the country also.
01:53And many, including the ICAO, many international organizations have also time and again established
02:00that we do have a very strict protocol, robust protocol, which we follow every time.
02:11But even when the incident happened, we also felt that there is a need to do an extended surveillance
02:26into the Boeing 787 series.
02:30So from the DGCA, we have also given an order to do the extended surveillance for the 787
02:40planes.
02:41There are 34 in our Indian aircraft fleet today.
02:46I believe that eight have already been inspected and with immediate urgency, all of them are going
02:53to be done.
02:56And furthermore, as the investigation is going to proceed and the report is going to come,
03:03whatever necessary steps are needed to be taken, we are going to ensure that without any hesitation,
03:18we are going to improve every necessary thing that is going to come our way to improve the safety.
03:29We'll be amples, we are going to keep our safety down.
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