Investigators have now recovered the cockpit voice recorder from last week’s devastating Air India crash and will analyse the pilots’ final words to help determine what caused the disaster that killed more than 270 people.

Visuals showed the father of Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, Pushkaraj, paying an emotional tribute to his son outside their residence in Powai, Mumbai.

From plight of homeless living underground to man walking away from Air India crash, here are a few highlights from SCMP’s recent Asia reporting.

Addressing a gathering of around 700 airline employees, Chandrasekaran, also known as Chandra, stated that while he has witnessed several crises in his life, the airline crash was the "most heartbreaking one," a Tata Group spokesperson stated, citing Chandra.

Pilot Sumeet Sabharwal’s father paid a tearful final tribute after his son died in the Air India crash in Ahmedabad on June 12.

An Air India pilot's final decision may have prevented greater tragedy in a deadly crash that killed 270, leaving one survivor.

A British man has told how a last-minute change of plans saved him from boarding the Air India jet that crashed in Ahmedabad last Thursday, killing 241 of the 242 people on board. Owen Jackson, 31, from Saffron Walden, Essex, had been working in India and was due to fly home on Flight AI171 last week.