Air India Crash, June 26 -- The Union Civil Aviation Ministry said on June 26 that efforts are underway to reconstruct the sequence of events leading to the fatal Air India plane crash on June 12 and identify contributing factors.

The ministry said a multidisciplinary team, headed by the chief of the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), is probing the Ahmedabad plane crash, and data is being extracted from the aircraft's black boxes.

On the evening of June 24, a team led by DG AAIB with technical members from AAIB and US-based The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) began extracting the datA from the black boxes, the ministry said.

"The Crash Protection Module (CPM) from the front black box was safely retrieved, and o...