In a long-awaited step toward comprehending the worst aviation catastrophe in a decade, India’s civil aviation ministry announced on Thursday that investigators have retrieved flight recorder data from an Air India crash this month that claimed 260 lives.
On June 12, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner headed for London crashed just after takeoff from Ahmedabad, India, killing 241 of the 242 persons on board and the remaining passengers on the ground.
In the days that followed, the plane’s black boxes—the flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR)—were found. On June 16, they were found in the wreckage, and on June 13, they were found on the roof of a building at the crash site.