A team of experts from different places, including India and the United States, are helping with the investigation.
They are carefully examining the black boxes and other information to understand what caused the crash. On June 12, a plane called Air India flight AI-171, which was going from London to India, crashed in the city of Ahmedabad.
Sadly, most of the people on the plane and some people on the ground lost their lives. The plane hit a medical building after it crashed. The government is working quickly to find out what went wrong so they can learn and prevent similar accidents in the future.
They are using special black boxes on the plane, which record sounds from inside the cockpit (the driver’s area) and data about how the plane was flying. They took these black boxes to a safe place in Delhi to look at what’s inside.
The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, said he was very sad and upset about what happened. He shared his feelings on social media and said he was talking with the leaders working to help everyone affected. The airplane left Ahmedabad at 1:39 pm and crashed just five minutes after…
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The insurance money covers different types of damages. For example, fixing the airplane itself, which costs about $125 million, and paying for the lives lost — the passengers and others — which could be around $350 million. All together, the total cost is much more than what the insurance companies…