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Canada Standard
a day ago
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- Canada Standard
"Air India did not inform of anything..." father of cabin crew member killed in AI-171 crash breaks down
Imphal (Manipur) [India], June 13 (ANI): The father of Nganthoi Sharma Kongbrailatpam, who died in the Ahmedabad plane crash has claimed that he has still not gotten any assistance from either Air India or the state government after his daughter passed away, with him only getting news about the crash and other rescue efforts from social media. 'Air India has not informed us of anything. I got the information only through social media, like the crash, and other things. I got information on that, but after that, what was to be done or what would happen, we were not told. No one from Air India came to our house to tell about it, or even from the government,' the victim's father, Kongrailatpam Nandesh Kumar Sharma, said. 21-year-old Nganthoi Sharma Kongbrailatpam was part of the cabin crew in Air India flight AI 171, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which crashed near Ahmedabad airport yesterday. The flight had 242 people on board, with the company confirming the death of 241 of them, as one British national survived the crash. Breaking down in front of journalists here, he demanded answers from the state government on whether they will assist the families affected. 'I just want the government should say something, take care of the family. Now that she (his daughter) is gone, she is gone. I only have 3 daughters. So what will I say? I have no words,' he said. Meanwhile, the Tata group has announced 1 crore to be given to the families of the deceased and the injured. A team of caregivers sent from Air India also arrived in Ahmedabad yesterday Air India said that among the 242 passengers, 169 were Indians, 53 Britishers, seven Portuguese and one Canadian national. Immediately after departure from Runway 23, the aircraft fell on the ground outside the airport perimeter. Heavy black smoke was seen coming from the accident site, said the official. Thick plumes of smoke could be seen at the accident spot. Earlier in the day, PM Modi held a review meeting with the officials at the airport in Ahmedabad in the wake of the Air India plane crash incident. He also visited the Air India plane crash site in Ahmedabad and reviewed the ground situation. (ANI)
India Gazette
a day ago
- General
- India Gazette
"Air India did not inform of anything..." father of cabin crew member killed in AI-171 crash breaks down
Imphal (Manipur) [India], June 13 (ANI): The father of Nganthoi Sharma Kongbrailatpam, who died in the Ahmedabad plane crash has claimed that he has still not gotten any assistance from either Air India or the state government after his daughter passed away, with him only getting news about the crash and other rescue efforts from social media. 'Air India has not informed us of anything. I got the information only through social media, like the crash, and other things. I got information on that, but after that, what was to be done or what would happen, we were not told. No one from Air India came to our house to tell about it, or even from the government,' the victim's father, Kongrailatpam Nandesh Kumar Sharma, said. 21-year-old Nganthoi Sharma Kongbrailatpam was part of the cabin crew in Air India flight AI 171, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which crashed near Ahmedabad airport yesterday. The flight had 242 people on board, with the company confirming the death of 241 of them, as one British national survived the crash. Breaking down in front of journalists here, he demanded answers from the state government on whether they will assist the families affected. 'I just want the government should say something, take care of the family. Now that she (his daughter) is gone, she is gone. I only have 3 daughters. So what will I say? I have no words,' he said. Meanwhile, the Tata group has announced 1 crore to be given to the families of the deceased and the injured. A team of caregivers sent from Air India also arrived in Ahmedabad yesterday Air India said that among the 242 passengers, 169 were Indians, 53 Britishers, seven Portuguese and one Canadian national. Immediately after departure from Runway 23, the aircraft fell on the ground outside the airport perimeter. Heavy black smoke was seen coming from the accident site, said the official. Thick plumes of smoke could be seen at the accident spot. Earlier in the day, PM Modi held a review meeting with the officials at the airport in Ahmedabad in the wake of the Air India plane crash incident. He also visited the Air India plane crash site in Ahmedabad and reviewed the ground situation. (ANI)
Indian Express
2 days ago
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- Indian Express
‘She joined Air India as an airhostess when she was just 19': Grief strikes family of Manipuri woman killed in plane crash
In Manipur's Thoubal town, the family of 21-year-old Nganthoi Sharma Kongbrailatpam plunged into mourning as reports of the Air India plane crash came in. She was part of the cabin crew on duty on the flight. She had called her elder sister around 11:30 am to tell her that she would be flying to London that day. 'She said she would not be able to call for the next few days and that she would get in touch after she returned on June 15. That ended up being her last call to us,' her father, Nandesh Kumar Sharma, said. Around three hours later, his elder daughter called out to him in a panic after seeing news reports on her phone that the flight had crashed. 'We knew that she was supposed to be inside that plane. But we have not received any information from Air India or any representative. All we know is from the news and Facebook,' he said. The middle of three daughters, Nganthoi joined Air India, her first job, in 2023, when she was a teenager. 'She had just given her first semester exam in DM College in Imphal. Some of her friends had been taking training to become air hostesses. When they went for the interview, they called her along. She went and ended up getting selected. She was very young, but I was happy that she had got a job in a good company. I thought that when she was older, she could try and find some stable work in Manipur,' he said. Her job would keep her on the move constantly, and she lived in Mumbai with a group of other young women from Manipur who work in Air India. Her father said that the last time she visited home was in March this year. She had visited them as a surprise around the time that he was undergoing medical treatment in a hospital. 'She stayed for just a few days. She always visited us like that. She would surprise us when she got a few days off work. She would plan the visit with her elder sister and call out to us when she reached the front gate. She looked after us all very well,' he said.
