Investigators find black box from Air India crash

INVESTIGATORS searching for clues as to what caused India’s worst air disaster in more than a decade recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from the charred remains of an Air India flight.

The crash on Saturday of the Boeing 737-800, which overshot a hilltop runway in southern India and plunged over a cliff, killed 158 people. Only eight survived, many of them by jumping from the wreckage just before it burst into flames.

The Press Trust of India news agency reported the black boxes were recovered by investigators sifting through twisted wreckage of the plane.