Man Fulfils Wifes Final Want, Dies Later: Story Of UK-Primarily based Man Killed In Air India Aircraft Crash

A 36-year-old UK-based Indian man, Arjun Manubhai Patolia, was among the many 265 folks killed within the Air India airplane crash in Ahmedabad on Thursday, which is likely one of the deadliest aviation disasters in current historical past. Patolia had travelled from the UK to Gujarat to fulfil his late spouse Bharatiben’s ultimate want to immerse her ashes within the Narmada River. His spouse had handed away every week earlier in London. 

Patolia had accomplished the funeral rites in his ancestral village, Vadiya, and was returning to the UK to his two daughters, aged 4 and eight, when tragedy struck on the Air India flight to London’s Gatwick Airport.

“He had a ticket on Air India flight AI171. He was speculated to go to London, however the accident occurred,” Krish Jagdish Patolia, Arjun’s nephew instructed India As we speak.

Flight AI171 crashed minutes after take-off from Ahmedabad airport which claimed the lives of 265 folks. On the flight, a complete of 230 passengers, together with 169 Indians and 53 British nationals boarded.

Within the tragic incident, just one passenger in seat 11A survived, recognized as Ramesh Biswas Kumar. He was sitting near the emergency exit, and jumped from the plane earlier than it went down.

“It occurred in entrance of my eyes. Even I could not consider how I survived. For a second, I used to be assured that I used to be going to die. However after I opened my eyes, I realised that I used to be alive, then I attempted to unplug my seat belt and exit from the damaged emergency door. Whereas I managed to exit, uncle-aunty sitting close to me and an air hostess misplaced their lives in entrance of my eyes,” mentioned Ramesh.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday additionally visited the crash web site and met injured survivors on the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital.