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New Delhi: The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) issued an interim statement on the Air India flight 171 crash on Friday (June 12), the tragedy’s first anniversary, in which it did not say when the final report into the incident will be out.

Investigators have made “significant progress” in analysing flight parts and records over the last year and analyses remain ongoing, the AAIB said on Friday, adding that the final report will come out when its probe and international consultations are complete. It did not indicate when that might be.

It has examined technical, operational, organisational and human factors linked to the accident over the past year, and has made “significant progress … in the examination and analysis of aircraft systems, flight recorder data, engine-related components, maintenance and operational records”, the bureau said.

Evidence gathered and examination results “are currently being analysed in a comprehensive and integrated manner” and “additional technical evaluations and........

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