Investigators have now recovered the cockpit voice recorder from last week’s devastating Air India crash and will analyse the pilots’ final words to help determine what caused the disaster that killed more than 270 people.

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.

Air India flight AI171, a Boeing 787-8 carrying 242 people, crashed after taking off from Ahmedabad on its way to London.

On June 12, as news emerged that an Air India flight bound for London crashed shortly after takeoff in Ahmedabad, India, a video ( archived) circulated online claiming to authentically show the final moments before the crash from inside the cabin.

The plane, which was headed to London Gatwick, crashed shortly after taking off. More than 200 bodies have been recovered.

Air India plane crash investigators find the first of the "black boxes" from the Boeing 787-8 that slammed into buildings, killing all but one of the 242 people on board.

The Air India Flight AI171 was bound for Gatwick when it crashed into a civilian area shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad airport

On June 12, a tragic Air India plane crash devastated Ahmedabad, claiming the lives of 241 people on board and 29 people on the ground. But the toll may not end there. Filmmaker Mahesh Kalawadia, also known as Mahesh Jirawala,