Shock and Grief in U.K. Over Air India Crash
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A black box has been found at the site of the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad, India's civil aviation minister said on Friday. The flight data recorder was recovered within 28 hours by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB),
A 28-year-old student who was visiting western India says she missed her Air India flight back to London. That flight was AI171, which crashed shortly after takeoff.
An early focus of the probe includes a possible loss or reduction of thrust.
It could take months to fully understand what went wrong in the crash, the first involving a Dreamliner. Officials from India continued the investigation Friday.
A former University of Minnesota student and his sister were on the Air India flight that crashed in Ahmedabad on Thursday.