India, plane crash and Gatwick Airport
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At least 270 died when the Air India flight crashed into the campus of a medical college in Ahmedabad shortly after takeoff on Thursday. Only one passenger among the 242 aboard survived.
The Air India flight fell from the sky on Thursday and killed at least 270 people in Gujarat state, officials said Saturday.
Abdhi Patel had traveled to India to care for her mother, but was "very nervous" to leave her young son for two weeks, Atif Karim, Patel's colleague at Zone Beauty Studio in Northampton, England, told The Independent. Karim said that Patel, 40, felt a "sense of duty" to travel to India, but "you could tell it was weighing on her."
Air India's Chairman N. Chandrasekaran on Monday told staff that last week's plane crash that killed at least 271 people should be a catalyst to build a safer airline, urging employees to stay resolute amid any criticism.
The final words of the pilot of Air India Flight AI171 that crashed on Thursday have been revealed, providing new details about the final moments before the aircraft went down. Indian aviation officials have confirmed the pilot issued distress calls before the Gatwick -bound flight crashed in Gujarat state on 12 June,
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