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All passengers – except one – on board the Air India flight bound for London Gatwick Airport that crashed shortly after take-off from Gujarat's Ahmedabad airport have died, the airline confirmed.
There were 242 passengers and crew on board the plane, including 169 Indian nationals, 53 Britons, seven Portuguese nationals and one Canadian. One passenger, British national of Indian origin, Vishwashkumar Ramesh, miraculously survived the crash.
The 12-member crew of the plane was among the 241 persons who died in the Air India Dreamliner crash in Ahmedabad on Thursday afternoon.
Captain Sumeet Sabharwal
The aircraft was under the command of Captain Sumeet Sabharwal with First Officer Clive Kunder. While Captain Sabharwal had 8,200 hours of flying experience, his copilot had 1,100 hours under his belt, according to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA)
Sixty-year-old Captain Sabharwal was the senior-most crew member on board the ill-fated flight. Sabharwal had been living in Jalvayu Vihar in Powai in Central Mumbai with his aging father. Captain Sabharwal was just a few months away from retirement, according to a report in The Indian Express.
Deepak Pathak, flight attendant
Flight attendant Deepak Pathak was one of the crew members on the crashed flight. A resident of Badlapur in Thane district near Mumbai, Pathak had last spoken to his mother, saying "good morning", his sister said, according to news agency PTI.
Pathak worked as a cabin crew member with Air India for 11 years, his sister said. "He called our mother in the morning and said `good morning'. Though we were not able to speak often due to our busy schedules, my mother and I regularly talk about him, like where is he, has he returned home," she said.
Deepak is one of the five siblings and had got married four years ago.
Saineeta Chakravarty, Santacruz West
Saineeta Chakravarty, 35, was one of the ten cabin crew who were on board the Air India Dreamliner. Chakravarty lived in Santacruz west and had recently joined Air India after having worked with Go Air.
As friends and neighbours gathered at the house on Thursday after the crash news was flashed Saineeta's mother was unable to accept the fate. "Please give me one day. Let her come home first," she said, as reported by Times of India.
Nganthoi Kongbrailatpam Sharma, Manipur
Kongbrailatpam Nganthoi Sharma was among the 12 cabin crew members on board the flight
Her family shared the ordeal with news agency PTI as they tried to get in touch with Sharma.
"We called her up several times after receiving the news but nobody picked up the calls. The internet on her phone is also still on. However, we stopped calling her around 6 pm fearing it would drain the battery," K Khenjita, a relative of Nganthoi told the new agency.
Nganthoi is the middle child among three siblings. Her eldest sister works in a private school and her youngest sister is a student in Class 9, the news agency said.
Please give me one day. Let her come home first.
Other Members
Shradha Dhavan and Aparna Mahadik were the two other senior cabin crew members on the plane. The other cabin crew members have been identified as Maithili Patil, Irfan Shaikh, Lamnunthem Singson, Roshni Songhare Rajendra, and Manisha Thapa.
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