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

Officials on Saturday confirmed that the black box recovered from the Air India Flight 171 crash site in Ahmedabad was largely intact and showed minimal damage, raising hopes that crucial flight data could be extracted in India itself, according to The Hindustan Times.

Loychusak, who is now 47, recently took to Facebook to share his shock after knowing that the only survivor of the recent crash in Ahmedabad was also seated in 11A. “The lone survivor of the plane crash in India was sitting in the same seat number as me, 11A. Goosebumps,” he wrote.

Indian investigators have recovered the digital flight data recorder or the black box of the Air India flight that crashed a day earlier.

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.

It seemed impossible, but shortly after news broke that an Air India flight had crashed in the city of Ahmedabad, video started circulating on social media showing a man walking from the scene in a bloodstained shirt.