Air India crash investigators say black boxes intact, data extracted

Investing.com -- Indian investigators examining the fatal Air India airliner crash that claimed 260 lives last month have confirmed that the aircraft’s black boxes were not damaged, according to a Reuters report on Thursday.

This information contradicts earlier Indian media reports which had claimed the critical recording devices were damaged when the London-bound Boeing (NYSE: BA) Dreamliner crashed on June 12 and erupted into a massive fireball.

Officials from the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau told lawmakers during a parliamentary panel meeting on aviation on Wednesday that they have been able to extract "good data" from the black boxes, the report added.

The intact flight recorders will be crucial for investigators working to reconstruct the sequence of events that led to the deadly crash. Black boxes typically contain both voice recordings from the cockpit and flight data parameters that help determine the cause of aviation accidents.

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