Search operations suspended, black box yet to be retrieved

The search operation to retrieve the black box and the cockpit voice recorder, among other things, at the Mangalore aircrash site was suspended tonight due to darkness.

The search operation to retrieve the black box and the cockpit voice recorder, among other things, at the Mangalore aircrash site was suspended tonight due to darkness.

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Sources said the black box or the Flight Data Recorder and the Cockpit Voice Recorder could not be brought out from the massive wreckage of the ill-fated Boeing 737-800 aircraft of Air India Express.

The operations, suspended late tonight due darkness, would be resumed on Sunday, they said.