New Delhi: Federal Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu Sunday urged Western media to avoid speculation and thanked AAIB for deciphering India’s black box data.“AAIB is particularly appealing to Western media houses. Western media houses in particular may be interested in the kind of articles they are trying to publish. I believe in AAIB. I believe in the work they are doing. He repeatedly said that the government is waiting for the final report before reaching a conclusion.The government is firefighting the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) denounces a preliminary investigation into the fatal June 12 Air India AI 171 crash. The report did not reveal the transcript of the key seconds of Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR), but western media began regularly providing these details 44 hours before the AAIB report was released. This has not been rejected by AAIB yet. Western report denounced the AI 171 captain for the crash. In the AAIB report’s isolated, selective indirect CVR quote, there is also one pilot asking why he turned off the fuel supply to the engine.Naidu called this decoding a major achievement because it would require the need to send the previous blackbox overseas to retrieve the data. “But this is the first time that AAIB has decoded everything. We have seen preliminary reports,” he said, urging us to come to conclusions before the final report is released.
