Overview
- About 30 families from Gujarat, who met in Ahmedabad on Saturday, sent a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking release of the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder or private access for relatives.
- Copies of the appeal went to India’s air accident investigators and regulators, including the AAIB and DGCA, as well as Gujarat officials, and the families said Air India had not responded to the letter.
- The AAIB leads the probe and recovered both recorders in June 2025, then reported in July that both engines lost thrust after the fuel control switches moved from RUN to CUTOFF within seconds of liftoff, with no cause yet identified.
- Relatives said payments from Air India do not replace answers and asked for clear briefings that explain what the recorder data shows about the crew’s final minutes.
- Families also described poor support to retrieve belongings, citing an unwieldy online portal with unclear images, slow email replies, and requests for a direct contact number and access to digital items; the June 12, 2025 crash killed 260 people, with one survivor.