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Gujarat mother escapes Air India plane crash, son sleeping inside tea stall dies
A 14-year-old boy, who was sleeping under a tree near his family's tea stall in Ahmedabad, died after an Air India plane crashed into a nearby resident doctors' hostel in Ahmedabad on Thursday. Her mother survived the tragedy, but was hospitalised with burn victim, Akash Patni, was sleeping in the tea stall close to the BJ Medical College hostel building where the London-bound flight turned into a massive fireball, minutes after taking off from Ahmedabad mother, Sitaben, unsuccessfully tried to save her son from the fire and debris and was hospitalised with burn injuries. A video showed Sitaben running amid a massive fire and thick plumes of black smoke engulfing the area as panic-stricken people ran for their lives.
(The video below may be disturbing. Viewers' discretion advised) Sitaben, who is admitted to the ICU at the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad, said she did not see the flight, but heard a loud explosion and saw plumes of black smoke."The plane crashed behind (our tea stall) and there was a loud sound. A massive fire broke out. Nothing was visible. My son was sleeping inside the shop and he died," she victim's father Suresh Kumar, who also survived the tragedy, recalled the circumstances that led to the plane crash and the death of his son and I were at home and my wife was at the tea stall. He had gone to give food to my wife. He fed his mother and slept there at the shop. Suddenly, the plane crashed and there was a massive fire near our shop. My wife survived and she has been hospitalised," he said he and his family were looking for Akash but were told by the hospital authorities that his body was kept in the AIR INDIA PLANE CRASHThe Air India plane, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, carried 242 people - 230 passengers, two pilots and 10 crew members - and was headed for London's Gatwick airport after it took off from the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad at 1.39 pm on Thursday. The plane went up to 625 feet before it descended rapidly, and then crashed into the BJ Medical College and crash killed 265 people, including 241 passengers on board, and left just one survivor, an Indian-origin British national, who is hospitalised. The Ahmedabad tragedy is one of the world's worst aviation disasters in a crash marked the first fatal accident involving a 787 since its commercial debut in the crash, all planes under the Boeing 787-8/9 fleet of Air India will undergo an enhanced safety inspection starting Sunday, the Civil Aviation Ministry has engine and hydraulic systems monitoring are among the advanced checks ordered by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), which will seek a report of the checks for review.(with inputs from Vidya Kumar)Tune InMust Watch
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