On June 12, 2025, a plane crashed in India just outside the airport a minute after lifting off the ground. The pilot inside the plane might not know how to fly a plane, no one knows why it crashed.
After lifting off the ground and rising up 625ft, the plane plummeted to the ground at a speed of 475 ft per minute. After falling onto a building half a mile away from the airport, it exploded. At least 270 people have been killed, and most of them are passengers. The others were the people who lived in the building it crashed into.
The CVR captures audio from the cockpit, including pilot conversations, alarms and ambient sounds. The flight data recorder (FDR), which logs crucial flight parameters like altitude, speed and engine performance, had been recovered from the debris on Friday. Both the CVR and FDR collectively form what is commonly known as the “black box” of a plane.
It is a vital tool in air crash investigations, helping experts reconstruct the flight’s final moments and determine the cause of the incident. The black box, unlike the name suggests, is actually two bright orange devices – one for the CVR and the other for the FDR – painted with reflective strips for easier recovery after a crash. Both these devices are designed to survive a crash.
On Sunday, officials from the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) surveyed the site of the plane crash. Over the weekend, doctors said 270 bodies had been recovered from the site of the crash. More than 90 victims have been identified through DNA matching.
UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the crash was “devastating”.
“I am being kept updated as the situation develops, and my thoughts are with the passengers and their families at this deeply distressing time,” he said. “I would like to pay a particular tribute to the heroic efforts of the emergency services and all those providing help and support at this most heartbreaking and traumatic time,” he said in a statement.
This big news became the topic of attention in India at that moment. Muttering in disbelief, the people around the crash site have tried to find things in the debris of the crashed airplane. And still, this was very serious news; around 300 people has died. Only one person survived, and he said that before the plane crashed, he heard a loud bang.