IAF team recovers An-32 black box from crash site. Flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder will help in investigations into the crash. The An-32 aircraft with 13 people on board had gone missing on June 3. There were no survivors in the crash of An-32 aircraft. IAF recovered An-32's black box from crash site in Arunachal Pradesh

An Indian Air Force (IAF) team on Thursday recovered black box of An-32 aircraft which went missing on June 3.

The An-32's black box was recovered from crash site in Arunachal Pradesh.

The flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder are part of the block box that will help in investigations into the crash.

The flight data recorder can store up to 30 parameters.

These parameters include details of engine, speed and other things to assess what possibly triggered the crash.

The cockpit voice recorder can be extremely crucial in getting more crash details as it will have the conversations the pilot had with the ground staff minutes before the crash.

A team, comprising four Indian Air Force personnel, reached the crash site this morning with the remaining nine personnel joining them a later.

The IAF will now assess the damage black box sustained.

"If the damage is not much and the equipment are intact, retrieving the data will not be a problem," an IAF officer said.

A team of four, out of a group of 15, reached close to the crash site on Thursday evening but because of the poor light could not go further and access the wreckage and waited for daylight.

"They had to rappel and get to the An-32 that is stuck at a steep gradient," the officer said.

The next big challenge is to get back the mortal remains of the IAF personnel. According to an ANI report, the choppers would be used to ferry the bodies from the crash site in Arunachal Pradesh.

The wreckage of the An-32 aircraft of the Indian Air Force was spotted in a heavily forested mountainous terrain by an IAF Mi-17 helicopter, eight days after it went missing with 13 people on board on June 3.

Teams were airdropped near An-32 aircraft wreckage site in Arunachal Pradesh to carry out search operations in area | File photo

There were no survivors in the crash of An-32 aircraft, wreckage of which was found in Arunachal Pradesh on Tuesday, Indian Air Force confirmed.

The Russian-origin An-32 aircraft was going from Jorhat in Assam to Menchuka advanced landing ground near the border with China on June 3 when it lost contact with ground staff at 1 pm, within 33 minutes of taking off.

A total of eight aircrew and five passengers were on board the aircraft.