Air India plane crash investigators find the first of the "black boxes" from the Boeing 787-8 that slammed into buildings, killing all but one of the 242 people on board.

Doctors in India say 270 bodies have been recovered from the site of Thursday's plane crash in Ahmedabad. The London-bound aircraft crashed into a residential area shortly after take-off killing all but one of the 242 passengers, a 40-year-old British man.

Air India Flight 171 was “involved in a tragic accident,” the airline’s chairman said. The plane was due to fly from Ahmedabad to London’s Gatwick Airport.

The Air India flight fell from the sky on Thursday and killed at least 270 people in Gujarat state, officials said Saturday.

Air India flight 171 crashed on a building minutes after takeoff near the airport in India’s western city of Ahmedabad.

Indian investigators have recovered the digital flight data recorder or the black box of the Air India flight that crashed a day earlier.

Seconds after the distress call, ATC responded but the plane had crashed by then, killing 241 people on board.

An Air India flight with 242 people aboard crashed shortly after takeoff in Ahmedabad, a city in western India, on Thursday. The plane, which was flying over the densely populated Meghani Nagar neighborhood,

Loychusak, who is now 47, recently took to Facebook to share his shock after knowing that the only survivor of the recent crash in Ahmedabad was also seated in 11A. “The lone survivor of the plane crash in India was sitting in the same seat number as me, 11A. Goosebumps,” he wrote.

Officials on Saturday confirmed that the black box recovered from the Air India Flight 171 crash site in Ahmedabad was largely intact and showed minimal damage, raising hopes that crucial flight data could be extracted in India itself, according to The Hindustan Times.

Viswashkumar Ramesh was the only passenger out of 242 people on board the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner to walk away from the tragedy.

The UK has set up a "reception centre" in a hotel near Ahmedabad airport to provide support and advice for the families and friends of British nationals following the Air India plane crash on June 12,