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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Gwyn Topham and agencies

Air India plane crash: investigators to examine pilots’ voice recordings

The tail of the Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner plane that crashed
Investigators are trying to find out why the Air India plane crashed. Photograph: Amit Dave/Reuters

Investigators are preparing to study the pilots’ last words for clues as to the cause of last week’s Air India plane crash after recovering the cockpit voice recorder from the wreckage.

The voice recorder was in the Boeing 787 aircraft’s second black box, which the Indian authorities said they had found on Sunday. The first, containing the flight data recorder, was located within 28 hours of Thursday’s disaster in Ahmedabad, in which at least 279 people died.

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