Investigators in India on Sunday recovered the second black box from the London-bound Air India Boeing 787 that crashed in the city of Ahmedabad, killing at least 279 people, authorities announced. The cockpit voice recorder has been found,

The second black box from Air India flight AI171 which crashed in Ahmedabad on 12 June 2025 has been recovered and will reveal key cockpit recordings.

Investigators are preparing to study the pilots’ last words for clues as to the cause of last week’s Air India plane crash after recovering the cockpit voice recorder from the wreckage. The voice recorder was in the Boeing 787 aircraft’s second black box, which the Indian authorities said they had found on Sunday.