Mumbai plane crash: Black box recovered

June 28, 2018 19:49

The black box of the chartered plane that crashed in Mumbai's Ghatkopar, has been recovered. There were fears that it may not be recovered after locals trampled all over the crash site as the Mumbai police and fire brigade personnel tried to sanitise and cordon off the site. An aircraft's black box records cockpit conversation and airspeed, altitude, vertical acceleration and fuel flow and provides crucial clues to the reason behind a plane crash.

Five persons were killed when a 12-seater aircraft crashed in a crowded Mumbai suburb today, the second air mishap in Maharashtra in as many days. Those killed include two pilots and two aircraft maintenance engineers on board and a pedestrian in the Ghatkopar area where the plane crashed, police said.

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Image: The wreckage of the chartered plane that crashed in Ghatkopar.

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