By Sakshi Dayal and Allison Lampert NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Investigators have downloaded flight recorder data from an Air India crash this month that killed 260 people, India's civil aviation ministry said on Thursday,

Extraction and analysis of data from the black boxes of the ill-fated Air India Boeing 787-8 aircraft that crashed in Ahmedabad on June 12 is being done at the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau’s (AAIB) new state-of-the-art laboratory in Delhi,

After being deployed, it can swing into action through gravitational force, providing essential energy for onboard avionics.