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.

Air India pilot Sumeet Sabharwal, 56, told his elderly father he wanted to retire to care for him full-time just three days before the crash that claimed his life

“Prosthesis doesn’t melt, bone doesn’t melt, teeth don't melt. Even when nothing is left and the soft tissue is burned, these survive,” Dr Tamanna Parmar, 33, tells me over the phone from Ahmedabad.

In one case, forensic teams, reportedly have to repeat the 72-hour-long DNA testing procedure after two heads of different victims were found in one body bag

Investigators have recovered the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from the crashed Air India flight, a key step in uncovering what caused last week's deadly accident.

At least 270 died when the Air India flight crashed into the campus of a medical college in Ahmedabad shortly after takeoff on Thursday. Only one passenger among the 242 aboard survived. At least 29 others on the ground, including five medical students inside the hostel, were also killed.

Filmmaker Mahesh Kalawadia (Mahesh Jirawala) went missing the day Air India flight AI-171 crashed in Ahmedabad on June 12, 2025. His family has submitted DNA samples as his phone's last location was near the crash site.

The horrific crash of Air India Flight AI171 on Thursday, June 12, 2025, has left the nation in profound grief, with the confirmed death toll now sta