NEW DELHI, June 13 (Xinhua) -- Indian Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu posted on social media on Friday that the flight data recorder (Black Box) of the crashed plane has been recovered from the accident site in Ahmedabad by Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau.
"This marks an important step in the investigation and will greatly help the accident investigation," He posted.
The Hindustan Times reported on Friday that the black box of the plane had been found on the rooftop of a building aircraft crashed into.
Air India's flight AI-171, a Boeing 787-8 aircraft, flying from the western Indian city of Ahmedabad to London, crashed on Thursday shortly after takeoff, killing 241 people on board with only one survivor. ■
