Air India plane crash investigators reportedly find first "black box" from Boeing 787-8 wreckage in Ahmedabad
CBSN
Ahmedabad, India — There were reports Friday that at least one of the so-called "black boxes" — the flight data and cockpit voice recorders — from Air India flight 171 had been recovered from the charred wreckage left in India's western city of Ahmedabad when the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner slammed into buildings, killing all but one of the 242 people on the plane and dozens on the ground. The data recorders will be vital to investigators as they try to figure out what caused the passenger jet to crash just minutes after it took off from Ahmedabad for London's Gatwick Airport.
"Directorate General of Civil Aviation team have recovered one black box from the crash site," the French news agency AFP quoted a senior state police officer as saying Friday.
They did not say whether it was believed to be the flight data or cockpit voice recorder.
