In Air India Crash Probe Breakthrough, Data Downloaded From 'Black Boxes'

Data from black boxes recovered from the June 12 Air India plane crash has been successfully downloaded and is being analysed, the governemnt said Thursday afternoon. The black boxes - a flight data recorder, or FDR, and a cockpit voice recorder, or CVR - were damaged in the crash and there were questions over the recovery of usable data. Earlier, sources told NDTV the governemnt may send the FDR and CVR abroad for forensic extraction of the data.