India, June 14 -- The aviation ministry on Saturday held its first press briefing on the Ahmedabad plane crash, an incident in which an Air India Boeing 787-8 aircraft bound for London plummeted into a hostel building shortly after takeoff on Thursday, killing 241 of the 242 people onboard and dozens others on ground.

Secretary, civil aviation, Samir Kumar Sinha, said during the press briefing that the Air India B787-8 aircraft that crashed on Thursday had flown Paris-Delhi, and Delhi-Ahmedabad without any issues before the crash. Follow Ahmedabad plane crash news live updates

Civil aviation minister Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu, who was present at the press briefing, said decoding of black box will provide in-depth insight into what happen...