An online fundraising page set up to support the family of a mother killed in the Air India plane crash has raised more than £7,000 in less than a week.Abdhiben Patel, 40, was flying back to the UK after visiting her elderly mother when flight AI171 crashed shortly after take-off from Ahmedabad on 12 June.

Air India Flight 171 was airborne for less than 40 seconds before it plunged into a densely-populated neighbourhood in AhmedabadInvestigators now face the grim task of sifting through the wreckage and decoding the cockpit voice and flight data recorders of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner to piece together what went catastrophically wrongAgainst the backdrop of the London-bound plane tragedy,

The black boxes, which are actually bright orange in colour, are critical in aircraft accident investigations as they provide data on numerous parameters and aircraft systems, helping the investigators identify the most likely causes of an accident.