NEW DELHI - India has started investigating the Air India plane crash that killed 260 people, including 241 passengers, after the aircraft went down moments after takeoff from Ahmedabad on June 12.

The government confirmed that data from the front black box of the Air India crash was successfully retrieved on June 25, 2025, at the AAIB lab. Both black boxes—Cockpit Voice Recorder and Flight Data Recorder—were recovered from the crash site between June 13 and 16,

Both the CVRs and FDRs were recovered within a week after the accident. One was retrieved from a rooftop of the building at the crash site on June 13, and the other from the debris on June 16.