Decoding the black box is going to give an in-depth insight into what happened moments before the plane crash,” Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu said to journalists, highlighting the importance of flight data to untangle the tragic disappearance of Air India Flight 171.

Investigators have found that the pilots of the Jeju Air Boeing 737 that crashed in December, killing 179 people on board, seemed to have shut off the wrong engine that was damaged in a bird strike, according to reports.