International agencies assist India's AAIB in investigating Air India crash; black box data analysis underway.

Air India flight AI171, a Boeing 787-8 carrying 242 people, crashed after taking off from Ahmedabad on its way to London.

This boosts hopes of identifying the cause of the deadly crash; Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi PK Mishra leads high-level review and visits injured survivors

Indian investigators have recovered the digital flight data recorder or the black box of the Air India flight that crashed a day earlier.

Air India plane crash investigators find the first of the "black boxes" from the Boeing 787-8 that slammed into buildings, killing all but one of the 242 people on board.

Air India has confirmed that 241 people, including 52 British nationals who were on board the flight, were killed in the crash.

Seconds after the distress call, ATC responded but the plane had crashed by then, killing 241 people on board.