An investigation is underway as to what caused an Air India airliner carrying 230 passengers and 12 crew members to crash shortly after takeoff on Thursday.

As officials are still examining the cause of last week’s deadly Air India Flight A171 crash in Ahmedabad, India, investigators suspect the Boeing aircraft’s emergency power system was possibly operational before the crash,

The government's response came after reports suggested that India would send the black box to the US for data recovery as the recorder was heavily damaged in the Ahmedabad crash.