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The Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crash in Ahmedabad claimed 241 lives, including Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, who recently vowed to quit flying to care for his elderly father, and First Officer Clive Kunder, whose family had strong ties to actor Vikrant Massey. Captain Sabharwal, 55, with over 8,300 hours of experience, had promised his father he would quit his job to care for him full-time. Kunder, 28, came from an aviation family - his mother was a former Air India flight attendant. The flight, AI-143 to London's Gatwick Airport, crashed 32 seconds after takeoff. Captain Sabharwal issued a "Mayday" call moments before contact was lost. The sole survivor, Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, is recovering in the hospital. Air India CEO Campbell Wilson turned back his flight to Paris and flew to Ahmedabad to manage the response.

Dr. Pratik Joshi and his wife, Dr. Komi Vyas , along with their three children , were on their way to London to start a new chapter. Tragically, all five of them perished in the Ahmedabad plane crash. The family's last photograph was captured just before their Ahmedabad-London flight took off. The flight crashed shortly after takeoff, claiming the lives of 241 people on board and leaving only one survivor. Dr. Joshi had been working in London for six years, establishing his career and securing a future for his family. Dr. Vyas, a physician in Udaipur, resigned from her position just two days before the family was scheduled to fly to London. The couple and their children – 5-year-old twin boys Nakul and Pradyut, and 8-year-old daughter Miraya – all died in the Ahmedabad Air India plane crash. What was intended to be a fresh start for this family became their tragic end. These were just some of the 241 heartbreaking stories from the plane crash that has become India...

Ahmedabad : An Air India Flight (AI171) has crashed in the Meghani area near  Ahmedabad  Airport  in Gujarat. Visuals from  PTI  showed thick smoke rising from the crash site. CNN-News18   reports that there were   242 people on board the aircraft.  Faiz Ahmed Kidwai, head of India's directorate of civil aviation, told the Associated Press that the plane crashed into a residential area called Meghani Nagar. There were 232 passengers and 12 crew members on board, where 169 Indian nationals, 53 Britishers, 1 Canadian and 7 Portuguese nationals were boarded. Here are the live updates: We are closing this live blog here. Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, 40, has been confirmed as the only survivor of the Air India crash in Ahmedabad. Union Civil Aviation Minister Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu has arrived at the site of the Ahmedabad plane crash. Vijay Rupani was the passenger no. 12 in flight. Following the Ahmedabad plane crash, Air India has added a hotline number...