'No news yet': Heartbroken father awaits news about daughter after Air India flight crash
In Manipur, the family of 21-year-old Nganthoi Sharma is still waiting for news regarding her whereabouts after she boarded the fateful Air India 171 flight.
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3 hours ago
- Indian Express
‘Need to have something that tells us they are gone': At Ahmedabad hospital, long night for kin of crash victims
'We know we won't be able to bear watching the condition in which their remains are. But, we need to have something that tells us they are gone. What will we tell others at home?' Hyderabad resident Salma Rafiq Memon is inconsolable as she waits outside the Kasauti Bhavan at Ahmedabad Civil Hospital on Saturday. Her nephew Javed, along with his wife Maryam and their two children, was on the Air India 171 flight that crashed in the city on Thursday. Her other nephew Imtiaz, Javed's brother, flew down from Mumbai on Friday to give his samples for DNA matching. Though families have been informed that it will take at least 72 hours for the results of the DNA tests to come out, many like Salma could not help but make their way to the hospital on Saturday, perhaps in an attempt to make sense of the harsh reality of their loss. The Memons are a large and closely knit clan scattered across Mumbai, Hyderabad, and parts of Madhya Pradesh. Javed was in Mumbai last week for Bakrid, and also to visit his mother who underwent a heart surgery two months back. 'We have been lying to her for the last two days. She has begun suspecting that something is amiss, and asking where all the family members are. We are so scared of telling her… But we will take the remains home so that there is a finality to the loss,' says Salma. Anil Patel, who lost his son Harshit and daughter-in-law Pooja, is also at the hospital, hoping to get some information. 'I was told by an official that the remains will be given to us in a packed state and we will have to complete the last rites soon,' says Patel. The families have been told that whatever luggage could be salvaged has been kept in a storage. Once the identification of the bodies is complete, they will also be asked to identify the luggage and valuables. Officials say while some of the bodies are charred due to the explosion, others have some body parts missing. The challenge is to hand them over in 'a dignified manner' so that the families can conduct last rites, they add. While blood samples have been taken of the kin, they are, in some cases, being matched with multiple remains. Kept in a postmortem room at the hospital with temperatures to match adequate safe-keeping, the bodies will be handed over as and when the tests confirm the identities, says an official. 'We have no option but to wait. It is difficult to come to terms (with the loss) without seeing the bodies,' says Patel as he waits outside Kasauti Bhavan, an examination room that is temporarily serving as a centre to collect the samples for DNA test.
India Today
a day ago
- India Today
Air India pilot Sumit Sabharwal's family in mourning, father inconsolable
4:43 The aftermath of the Air India 171 crash has left families shattered and inconsolable. Bodies are being moved to cold storage as DNA tests begin for identification.
India Today
a day ago
- India Today
Black box of Air India flight recovered from rooftop of building it hit
The crashed Ahmedabad-London Air India flight's black box has been recovered, the Ministry of Civil Aviation informed on Friday. The orange-coloured device located near the tail of a plane will help investigate the crash that has claimed at least 265 lives so Minister of Civil Aviation Ram Mohan Naidu said, "The Flight Data Recorder (Black Box) has been recovered within 28 hours from the accident site in Ahmedabad by AAIB. This marks an important step forward in the investigation. This will significantly aid the enquiry into the incident."advertisementThe device was recovered by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) team on the rooftop of the resident doctors' hostel building that the flight hit in Ahmedabad, as per sources. Further investigation into the crash has begun following the black box recovery. Over 40 Gujarat government staff joined efforts to augment civil aviation ministry teams on the crash site, sources black box is crucial in getting to the bottom of a plane crash. The device contains a Flight Data Recorder (FDR) and Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR). While the former records all technical data related to the aircraft, the latter records the cockpit conversation between two pilots until the last crash-proof device is located near the tail of the plane because, usually, an aircraft crashes on the side of the nose. The black box's position on the plane helps investigators locate it faster after a crash. The device is insulated to withstand intense heat, surviving temperatures as high as 1,100C for at least one the black box, digital video recorders (DVRs) are also important in investigating such crashes. The devices record CCTV footage from various aircraft cameras, including those in the cockpit and cabin, providing additional visual context to Air India 171 flight crashed within a minute of take-off from the runway at Ahmedabad's Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport, killing 241 people, including passengers and crew, on board, with only one Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner ploughed straight into a medical college hostel, sparking a massive Minister Narendra Modi on Friday inspected the crash site and visited the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital, where the injured are receiving treatment. A forensics team is also at the scene of the the deadly crash, one of the deadliest in India's aviation history, the Tata Group, that owns the Air India airlines, announced a compensation of Rs 1 crore for the families of each exact reason behind the crash is yet to be ascertained, and the government has formed a panel to probe the accident, and strengthen aviation safety for the Watch
