New Delhi/IBNS, June 26 -- The black box data of the Air India aircraft that crashed near the Ahmedabad airport on June 12 has been recovered and downloaded, the government provided an update on Thursday, media reports said.

The data has been downloaded.

The black box comprises a Digital Flight Data Recorder (DFDR) and Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR), which were heavily damaged.

It was earlier reported, the black box might be sent to the United States as India lacks the equipment to recover data from recorders which have sustained heavy damage.

A black box refers to two critical flight recording devices on an aircraft- Flight Data Recorder and Cockpit Voice Recorder.

While the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) records technical flight data (sp...