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Ahmedabad, India - The black boxes recovered from the wreckage of Air India Flight AI-171, which crashed just 36 seconds after takeoff from Ahmedabad on Thursday, June 12, have sustained varying levels of damage.

At least 270 people, most of them passengers, were killed when the London-bound Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed less than a minute after taking off from Ahmedabad airport in western India.

As reported by NDTV on Friday, June 20, two black box units have been recovered - one unit is more damaged than the other.

The development reportedly cast fresh uncertainty over what led to one of India’s deadliest aviation disasters in recent history.

Sources disclosed that there is a possibility that the less-damaged unit’s data can be retrieved domestically, while the more compromised recorder may require international forensic expertise. A decision is expected soon.

Individuals involved in the crash investigation divulged that a preliminary inspection shows external structural compromise, which, if not handled delicately, could risk internal data integrity.

A senior aviation official familiar with the probe said:

“This is a mystery. The black boxes are the only way we’ll ever know what happened in that cockpit.”

The aircraft's black box, including the damaged Digital Flight Data Recorder, is likely to be sent to the US for data recovery.

Black boxes, despite the name, are bright orange to help with visibility in crash debris. So, it is easier to spot in the wreckage.

And it is not one device — it is two: Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) and Flight Data Recorder (FDR).

The CVR stores the final two hours of cockpit audio:

As the technical heartbeat of the flight, it captures the human side of the flight.

Below are what we know:

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Earlier, Legit.ng reported that a senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani died in the Air India flight crash.

Gujarat BJP president CR Patil disclosed that Vijay Rupani was among the victims of the tragic plane crash that caught the attention of the world.

Subsequently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Rupani's relatives and remembered him as a humble and hardworking leader.

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