Air India crash breakthrough as 'black box' data successfully downloaded

Information from the black boxes on board the doomed Air India flight that crashed on June 12 have been successfully recovered and downloaded.

A flight data recorder (FDR) and a cockpit voice recorder (CVR) were retrieved following AI171 crash moments after takeoff from Ahmedabad airport.

One was found on the rooftop of the hostel into which the plane crashed and the other from the wreckage of the fuselage.

However, they were damaged in the crash and there were doubts over whether the data could be retrieved and used in the inquiry into the air disaster.

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