India, Jan. 29 -- The black box or cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder of the charter plan that crashed on Wednesday, killing Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, has been recovered, Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) said.

The aircraft - Bombardier Learjet 45 - carrying Pawar and four others, crashed while attempting to land at the Baramati airstrip near Pune. Track latest in Ajit Pawar plane crash here

It caught fire on impact and was completely gutted, making visual identification of the bodies impossible.

Black boxes - cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder - are tools that help investigators reconstruct the events that lead up to a plane crash.

They're orange in color to make them easier to find i...