The report’s authors note that they make no recommendations to Boeing, the manufacturer of the plane, or General Electric, the maker of the engine.
So, our home-team neer-do-wells at Boeing didn't gum up this one. Hurray!
Authorities typically provide regular briefings to the public immediately after serious crashes, but in the case of the Air India crash, little official information had been shared. That left a void filled in some cases by misinformation, and it stoked concern among international safety experts that the lack of transparency would make it difficult for other airlines to know whether any broader safety risks needed to be urgently addressed.
The investigation got off to a slow start. The plane’s black boxes, which record conversations between the pilots and log data from the jet’s systems, were recovered from the wreckage in the days after the crash, but investigators did not begin to analyze data from them until June 24 at a lab in Delhi. The information in the boxes will be vital to investigators as they piece together what went wrong.
So, it took the Indians about 10 days to do the time-critical work of actually evaluating the data recorders. Meanwhile the 787 fleet was still flying - so that data was REALLY critical to evaluate for world-wide air travel safety.
Par for the course.
“So, it took the Indians about 10 days to do the time-critical work of actually evaluating the data recorders.”
The boxes were heavily damaged and not readable i. The normal matter. It happens.
And just because you didn’t hear it for ten days doesn’t mean that Boeing just read it today.