The claim
An audio clip of a Mayday call was recovered from the black box of the crashed Air India Flight AI 171 in Ahmedabad in June 2025.
Original review summary
The review says the viral Mayday audio is from a different flight, N9851L, and was available online in 2009. It reports that no audio from AI 171’s recovered black boxes had been released by authorities.[S1]
Additional context
The review says data from AI 171’s black boxes was retrieved at the AAIB lab in Delhi on 25 June 2025, and the investigation team was analysing it. [S1]
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Sources and attribution
- [S1] FACTLY original review
Original review · Retrieved October 16, 2026
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