Morning Brief Podcast: AAIB's Ex Chief on Air Crashes, Crack Teams and Challenges | The Economic Times Podcast
Morning Brief Podcast (ET Online)
Anirban Chowdhury | 21:24 Min | June 24, 2025, 2:12 PM IST
An Air India flight took off on June 12 and within seconds, it became one of the deadliest air crashes in recent memory. Only one of the 242 people aboard survived. The official investigation has been hamstrung by a severely damaged black box that had to be flown to the NTSB lab for decoding. Host Anirban Chowdhury speaks to Aurobindo Handa, former head of India’s air accident probe agency, to understand what it takes to uncover the truth after an air crash. Drawing on his years of experience i...Read Morencluding the Calicut crash of 2020 he also sheds light on what holds back India’s air safety investigations: low budgets and short-staffed teams....Read Less