Air India Crash, June 26 -- The Union Civil Aviation Ministry said on June 26 that efforts are underway to reconstruct the sequence of events leading to the fatal Air India plane crash on June 12 and identify contributing factors.

On the evening of June 24, a team led by DG Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) with technical members from AAIB and US-based The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) began extracting the date from the black boxes, the ministry said.

"The Crash Protection Module (CPM) from the front black box was safely retrieved, and on June 25, 2025, the memory module was successfully accessed and its data downloaded at the AAIB Lab," it said.

The London-bound Air India flight AI-171 carrying 242 passengers...