Indian PM meets sole survivor of Air India crash
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has met the sole survivor of the Air India crash, Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, while still in hospital.
One of the black boxes has been recovered in hopes of discovering how this tragedy occurred.
The Dreamliner aircraft failed to gain height and lost altitude, leading to its plummet into a residential area, killing 241 of its passengers and dozens of bystanders.
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