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Indian Express
9 hours ago
- General
- Indian Express
Cook who was rolling chapatis, gardener who married recently among Ahmedabad plane crash survivors on ground
Raginiben Shaileshkumar Rajput, 43, one of the 17 cooks at the students' mess of BJ Medical College and Hospital had readied a meal of choli-bataka (beans-potato), rice, dal, and sprouts with buttermilk and salad. She vaguely remembers some 30-40 students who had come to dine on Thursday, when the Air India flight AI-171 crashed shortly after take-off on Thursday, stunning her and the others in the dining hall. Traumatised and injured, Raginiben was finally discharged on Saturday. Sitting on the first floor of the mess called 'Gaurang' after cooking, she was rolling chapatis when Raginiben suddenly heard a loud noise, she said. 'I was startled by something like a bomb blast. I had no clue what happened. Within seconds, the entire place was filled with choking smoke and dust. I could not see anything. Even my eyes started burning,' Raginiben told The Indian Express Saturday. 'After some time, when something was visible, I ran downstairs but the stairs were blocked by the debris and I fell and hurt my spine,' she added. Besides Raginiben, some staff members of the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital were also injured and are under treatment. Raginiben has been cooking at this mess for nearly seven years. The mess is operated by the medical students themselves, and each of the 17 women cooks are tasked with cooking for 40-50 students a day and are paid Rs 10 per plate. Sharing the financial burden of running her family of four, Raginiben said that earlier she worked in the hostels inside the main campus of Civil Hospital before shifting to Gaurang mess as the dilapidated hostel blocks A and B were brought down and students shifted to these blocks. Ajay Parmar, 28, who works as a gardener at the Civil Hospital, got married on May 10. On Thursday, he was on a scooter, heading to his house in Chandkheda for lunch, when he too got injured as the flight crashed. Parmar's brother Deepakbhai, an autorickshaw driver, was among the firsts to reach the crash site and help in the rescue operations. Little did he know that not too far away from the main site, his younger sibling was among the injured. Speaking to The Indian Express, Deepakbhai said, 'We recovered around 45 bodies of passengers who were completely charred, and also those from the mess building and nearby. By the time we reached, ambulance and police were already there and the fire brigade vehicles came soon after. Within sometime, I received a call from my mother informing me that Ajay too was admitted at the trauma centre.' Deepakbhai added: 'When he (Ajay) saw the sudden fireball and thick smoke above, he left his scooter and ran for shelter. But the fireball fell on him, severely burning his legs and hands. He was brought in an ambulance to the Civil Hospital's trauma centre where one of the doctors recognised him and called my mother as my mother does household chores at the doctors' residence.' Barely 3 km from the crash site, Rajeshbhai Patri, 45, an autorickshaw driver from Ahmedabad's Saraspur area, was waiting for passengers like he did any other normal afternoon when tragedy struck. Currently admitted to the Civil Hospital for chest injuries, Rajeshbhai, who has been driving an autorickshaw for 25 years, was among the fortunate few who survived the AI-171 crash. His son Tusharbhai, 22, said: 'He was sitting in his parked autorickshaw along the wall near the boys' hostel when he suddenly heard a loud noise from the aircraft flying overhead. When he noticed that something was amiss, he started running for shelter. It was then that huge concrete parts hit his chest.' As Rajeshbhai's mobile phone remained in the autorickshaw, the family came to know about his plight when they received a call from a stranger around 2 pm, informing them that he had been taken to the Civil Hospital in an ambulance. Still in trauma, he is barely speaking, Tushar said.
Indian Express
9 hours ago
- General
- Indian Express
Body of flight attendant found in tail end of Air India flight
The body of an Air India flight attendant on board Air India flight AI 171 has been retrieved from the tail section of the ill-fated aircraft, officials said. The London-bound B787 Boeing Dreamliner Air India flight carrying 242 passengers and crew members crashed into BJ Medical College and Hospital's Atulyam hostel soon after it took off on June 12. The crash killed all but one of the passengers as well as four medical students and a doctor's wife. It was the tail section that crashed into the hostel mess, where the medical students and the doctor's wife had been having lunch. Search operations continue at the site, which now has heavy security as investigation continues into the cause of the crash. 'Personnel of the Ahmedabad Fire and Emergency Services were working on the tail section of the aircraft, which is lodged in the mess area of the hostel. While cutting through it, they found the body of the flight attendant,' one official said. Chief Fire Officer Amit Dongre said the body had been sent to the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital for autopsy. The body has yet to be identified.
Indian Express
a day ago
- General
- Indian Express
‘He had finished lunch, was washing hands when plane crashed into hostel': 2nd-year medical student's life cut short
Jaiprakash Chaudhary was a person of many firsts. Son of a labourer and a second-year medical student at BJ Medical College and Hospital, he was the first of his family to go to college and, if he had lived, would have been the first doctor in his remote Barmer village of Bor Charanan – something that his family would advertise proudly. But the 20-year-old's life was tragically cut short when the London-bound B787 Boeing Dreamliner Air India flight carrying 242 passengers and crew members crashed into the BJ Medical College and Hospital hostel soon after it took off Thursday afternoon. The crash killed 241 of 242 passengers and crew on board and five people at the hostel, four medical students, and a doctor's wife – all of them in the hostel's second floor mess at the time of the crash. Of these, 12 people – 11 on board the plane and Jayprakash – are from Rajasthan. According to a family member, Jaiprakash had spoken to them just before he went for lunch. He got into the government medical college after scoring 686 out of 720 in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate) two years ago. He is survived by his father, mother and younger school-going sibling. 'From what we were told, Jaiprakash had finished his lunch and was washing his hands when the plane crashed into the hostel building. The flames after the crash and the weight of debris both killed him. Initial reports said he had 30 percent burns in his body,' the family member said. As his family brought his body back to the village Friday, several officials — including Barmer district collector Tina Dabi — came down to pay their respects. But Jayprakash wasn't the only young life that was lost in the crash. In Udaipur's Saheli Nagar, the house of marble businessman Sanjiv Modi has plunged into deep mourning after both of his children –son Shubh, 25 and daughter Shagun, 23 – died in the crash. The two were on their way to London for a vacation. As they wait for the siblings' bodies to be identified and brought home, the family is inconsolable, Satish Bhandari, a relative, said. 'They were going to London for a vacation. Subh had done chemical engineering from London and he was going to visit some of his friends. The sister decided to tag along,' he said. In a video that went viral soon after her death, 22-year-old Khushboo Rajpurohit from Balotra district in Rajasthan is seen weeping as she parts with her family. Married only a few months, Khusboo was going to London to join her husband Vipul Singh, who works there. The heartbreaking video shows Khushboo hugging every female member of her family as she bids them farewell. 'Her father had gone to Ahmedabad to drop her,' Thank Singh, a relative, told The Indian Express. 'He was on his way back when he heard the news of the crash.' Devastated, the family is now in Ahmedabad waiting for the body to be identified. Meanwhile, her husband Vipul is expected to arrive Saturday. 'DNA samples have been given to the hospital for identification. Once that's done, we'll bring the body for the funeral. In only a few days, we went from joy to mourning,' he said.
West Australian
2 days ago
- West Australian
Air India flight carrying 156 passengers makes emergency landing in Thailand after bomb threat
An Air India flight has made an emergency landing in Thailand after receiving a bomb threat. Flight AI 379, travelling from Thailand's Phuket to India's capital, New Delhi, was carrying 156 passengers when the threat was received on Friday, Phuket Airport said. Aviation tracking site Flightradar24 shows the plane circling over the Andaman Sea before landing back on the Thai island. Passengers were escorted from the plane in accordance with emergency protocols. The aircraft took off at 9.30am local time (12.30pm AEST), and was scheduled to land at 12.40pm local time (5pm AEST). The incident occurred less than 24 hours after an Air India flight crashed in India's western city of Ahmedabad. At least 290 people died when flight AI171 crashed into a residential area shortly after take-off. Among those killed were passengers on the flight, including minors, local residents, and people inside the BJ Medical College and Hospital hostel when the plane crashed into it.
Perth Now
2 days ago
- Perth Now
Air India flight makes emergency landing after bomb threat
An Air India flight has made an emergency landing in Thailand after receiving a bomb threat. Flight AI 379, travelling from Thailand's Phuket to India's capital, New Delhi, was carrying 156 passengers when the threat was received on Friday, Phuket Airport said. Aviation tracking site Flightradar24 shows the plane circling over the Andaman Sea before landing back on the Thai island. Passengers were escorted from the plane in accordance with emergency protocols. The aircraft took off at 9.30am local time (12.30pm AEST), and was scheduled to land at 12.40pm local time (5pm AEST). The incident occurred less than 24 hours after an Air India flight crashed in India's western city of Ahmedabad. At least 290 people died when flight AI171 crashed into a residential area shortly after take-off. Among those killed were passengers on the flight, including minors, local residents, and people inside the BJ Medical College and Hospital hostel when the plane crashed into it.
