By Sakshi Dayal, Allison Lampert and David Shepardson NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON (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,

Investigators have begun analyzing data from the black boxes recovered from the Air India Boeing 787 jet that crashed earlier this month, killing 270 people.

Indian air accident authorities have extracted data from the two flight recorders retrieved from the wreckage of the Air India aircraft that crashed two weeks ago, seeking to shed light on the cause of one of the country’s worst aviation accidents in recent memory.