NEW DELHI, June 26 (Reuters) - Efforts are underway to

reconstruct the sequence of events leading to the Air India

plane crash this month that killed 260 people, and identify

contributing factors, India's civil aviation ministry said on

Thursday.

A team led by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau

began extracting data from the black boxes on June 24, and the

crash protection module from the front black box has been

retrieved, with its memory module accessed and data downloaded,

the ministry said.

"The analysis of CVR (cockpit voice recorder) and FDR

(flight data recorder) data is underway," it said in a

statement.