India, June 13 -- Black box of the Air India aircraft that crashed in Gujarat's Ahmedabad on Thursday was recovered from the hostel building the plane plummeted into, Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) confirmed on Friday.

The Digital Flight Data Recorder (DFDR), commonly referred to as the blackbox, was found on the rooftop of the building. Follow Ahmedabad plane crash live updates

The Ministry of Civil Aviation clarified that, contrary to circulating reports, a video recorder that had been recovered at the crash site was not the DFDR.

Civil aviation minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu said on X that the Flight Data Recorder (black box) was recovered within 28 hours from the accident site in Ahmedabad by AAIB. "This marks an...