Investigators are preparing to study the pilots’ last words for clues as to the cause of last week’s Air India plane crash after recovering the cockpit voice recorder from the wreckage. The voice recorder was in the Boeing 787 aircraft’s second black box, which the Indian authorities said they had found on Sunday.

Air India flight AI 171 crashed in India's Ahmedabad, a Concorde crash outside the French capital of Paris changed aviation forever

Chandrasekaran's statement comes a day after the airline decided to give an interim payment to the kin of the victims and survivors of the plane crash.