As forensic teams begin analysing the device, experts say the flight data, if intact, will help recreate the final seconds of what is now considered one of India’s deadliest air disasters.
The accident claimed the lives of all but one of 242 passengers on board, including 12 crew members, in the country's worst aviation tragedy, leaving dozens of families in mourning.
Tensions erupted after a pro‑Bangladesh poster campaign and the discovery of cow heads at a Hanuman temple, followed by nighttime stone-pelting incidents.
