DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, PATNA, VADODARA ● REG.NO. MCS/067/2018 - 20 RNI REGN. NO. 1543/57 JOURNALISM OF COURAGE FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 2025, MUMBAI, LATE CITY, 20 PAGES `5.00 ● WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 230PASSENGERS,12CREWMEMBERS; MAYDAYDISTRESSCALLSOONAFTER PRESIDENT,V-P,PMLEADNATIONIN A-Iplanewith242crashes,1survivor pilot had 8,200 hours of flying experience take-off at 1.39 pm; search on for black box London-bound flight crashes after takeoff from Ahmedabad; 24 killed on ground EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE AHMEDABAD, NEW DELHI, JUNE 12 IN THE world’s worst aviation disaster in a decade and the first involving a Boeing 787, a London-boundAirIndiapassenger aircraft with 242 people on board crashed in a residential area shortly after take-off from the Ahmedabad airport Thursday afternoon. At least one person, a male passenger, had survived the crash, according to Ahmedabad PoliceCommissionerGyanender Singh Malik. The survivor was identified as Viswashkumar Ramesh who was on seat 11A of Flight AI-171 from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick. Former Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani was among the 230 passengers on board. Air India said the passengers comprised 169 Indian nationals, 53 British nationals, 1 Canadian national and 7 Portuguese nationals. The wide-bodied Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, bearing the registration VT-ANB, was being operated by a 12-member crew. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 CASUALTIES ON THE GROUND Aircraft crashed into hostel, four medical students among dead AHMEDABAD, JUNE 12 Videograbs show the Air India plane crashing moments after taking off from the Ahmedabad airport on Thursday. PTI THE NEXT STEPS US to join Bureau probe into first fatal crash of Boeing 787 13/06/2025 84 112 137 78 ON THE PASSENGER MANIFEST Doctor couple, 3 kids took selfie before new start — tragedy struck NEW DELHI, JUNE 12 PARUL KULSHRESTHA THE CRASH of Air India’s Boeing 787-8 aircraft ● minutes after take-off from the Ahmedabad airport will be investigated by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), an attached office of the Ministryof CivilAviation(MoCA). TheAAIBinvestigatesallserious aircraft accidents that occur in Indian airspace, and is UNTIL THURSDAY’S Air India plane crash, Dr Koni Vyas’s family was on the brink of a new life. A pathologist working at a private hospital in Rajasthan’s Banswara,Koni,33,hadresigned from her position last month so she could begin a new life with her husband Pratik Joshi, 36, a London-based doctor, and their three children – five-year-old twinboysPradyutandNakuland E EXPLAINED BY UNNY ‘OUT OF DANGER’ BRENDAN DABHI SUKALP SHARMA BUSINESS AS USUAL expressing grief, shock as condolences pour in CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 JAIPUR, JUNE 12 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 AHMEDABAD AIR CRASH AHMEDABAD AIR CRASH THE INDIAN EXPRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 2025 Apilotset toretire,anattendantwhoins others:Crewthatwentdown withDrea pired mliner SIDDHANT KONDUSKAR AND DEEPAK JOSHI MUMBAI, JUNE 13 was on its way to London. As per the preliminary investigation, the flight was heavily loaded with fuel for the long-distance flight,whichmadetheblasteven more powerful. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has stated that an investigation is being conducted. PAST INCIDENTS INVOLVING 787 13, 2025 AHMEDABAD THE INDIAN EXPRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE BOEING 787-8: AMONG THE MOST 248 2,500 AIR CRASH FROM VADODARA, 17 FROM KHEDA SHOWS AT LEAST 33 FROM GUJARAT’S Thought she could find work ss Gujarat busine leaders, family members killed RITU SHARMA 12 JUNE AHMEDABAD, of the Nanda THREE members Cargo founder of family — Pravesh MotorsGroup,Pramukh Neha Pramukh Nanda his wife younger son their Nanda and Nanda, were Air Prayash Pramukh London-bound onboard the which crashed India flight AI171 Meghaninagar viral on Her photo went after the in Ahmedabad’s aftertaksoon social media from areaThursdayminutes incident. Apart ing off. of Pramukh The family in a key figure Pravesh Nanda, and transport and transautomobile Gujarat’s automobile known in in the Presently operational in and well and sectors. port sectors circles, were Gujarat, Punjab runs the state’s business to attend the Delhi, Cargo Motors 30 and heading to London elder son Rajasthan, 70 sales outlets of their on over convocation was scheduled workshops. Amin, the Prayas, which Subhashchandra was also June 16. not received of Lubi Pumps eill-fated “So far, we have them, what- founder on to any information is in bits and onwaytoLondononth the comSources close that ever is coming clueless like flight. have confirmed the are was on pieces. We wait- pany praying and by on Subhashchandra everyone else, accompanied concrete news flight and was thefamily,A ing for some Vikram Gujral, ydetails. the passengers,” Motors and afemalememberof Cargo fa- Aminbutdidnotgivean director of a prominent Lubi Pumps, uncle of Pramukh's into The maternal diversified Nanda, told name, has now including ther Pravesh and several industries Indian Express. solar, EV solutions founded in 1959, After it was leading valves, y has been a Pilot gave Mayday call to Ahmedabad ATC before crash: DGCA in Deadliest accidents history Indian aviation ANAND, 19 flight 440 Indian Airlines MAY 31, 1973, to Palam Airport. INDIAN ON its approach crashed during encountered severe weather AIRLINES of the Boeing 737-200 wires just short FLIGHT 440 and struck high-tension Outside the civil hospital’s 48 died, including post-mortem room. Brendan (1973) 65 on board, Dabhi runway. Of the Kumaramangalam. politician Mohan ilsof pasAhmedabadFireandEmergency AIR INDIA BRENDAN DABHI Part of wing sons.Thesearethedeta Air India Air India 17 resi855 board the Services (AFES) along Landing gear AHMEDABAD, JUNE 13 1, 1978, Dubai-bound into the FLIGHT with the confirmed that fthedis- sengers on all of the ON JANUARY Boeing of tail Part 747, plunged City Police reached the Yadav Anand site. Relatives of (1978) got back to have given Tail fin dentsofvarioustalukasohecrash. flight... Flight 855, a taking off from and had just The National shortly after above passengers R E C K at G E O W “ALMOST 70% of the passengers he learnt about the crashDisaster Arabian N D samples A F A I R I SeaallI213 on Iboard. The disaster to trictarefearedkilledintabadreswhen Response Force A A 171 We (NDRF) TheseincludeMehmadhasrares- their DNA flight were found in their seats, around to return civil hospital... Mumbai, killing 101 seconds into the and six most turned teams, three her. pressed led to find each from of them had their seatbelts (6), Ahmedabad occurred only any statements TWIN-ENGINED: Ahmedabad been identRudraPatel(20);T on...” Director Indicator Parvez Vohra by are not making she has not This was how a first respon- GandhinagarandVadodara,into Jiyaengine, Nadiad resi-Two types of until confirmed GREATER when a faulty Attitude the aircraft’s 20% at idents Unfortunately, fuel efficiency to misinterpret service. Meanwhile, the are devastated Central Vahora (32); supplied by GEabout deathor authority.” Aerospace der, who rushed to the orientation. the captain production. (75) and through the use of durable, ADITI RAJA traced and we her... Parvez Rolls-Royce. The engines site of the Industrial 12 Security Force (CISF) Mahadev Pawar llasHina the competent of having lost on the Maheshwari (26), a Air India plane crash near VADODARA, JUNE lightweight composite Her dents the attheairportaswellastheRapid crashed plane were Sardar thought Bhavik materials and who was wifeAshaben(65),aswePrashantsupplied by GE. Vallabhbhai Patel International has two young children. ■ The 787 also pioneered1988, 19, She Action of Vadodara more electrical systems. India.Her woman returna new ON OCTOBER Force (RAF) also arrived the last cou(29); resident Airport, described the off A 35-YEAR-old of building a Boeing 737-200, way husbandisonhiswayto hereover Patel;Kathalalresidents POOR VISIBILITY planes, outsourcing 2011Piyush Patel first 787 in London for horrific atthespot.AccordingtoanArmy and The year the after dropping based entered had come home INDIAN AMID Airlines Flight 113, structure Airport. scene that he witnessed parentshavebeenliving loss for Patel (49) tarsanda; ing to the UK much of theAhmedabad ■ Size, range, efficiency grandparyears, service of at the on spokesperson, Relief and is a painful made Indian for his wedRupalPatel(44)fromUt benPatel ple AIRLINES it ideal on its approach to and struck trees Thursday afternoon. her daughter and Rescue 35 years. This components ,twosisfriend. 10 days ago for opening new routes, crashed assembling the Mumbai, ontheillcolumnsclose family bypassing PravinPatelandRanjan Darji around to 133 of ents’houseinVadodara FLIGHT 113 The arriving from Another first responder us all,” said a were dispatched from hubs served 2014 The year the as on vacation runway, killing (35) said the Ahmedabad was return- from Mahuda; Rajnikant aircraftdingandwasreturning behind by jumbos (1988) the flight, pieces in the US. But the shake-up led left such as well involved inBhavik Boeing short of the Nancy Patel ters heading off Cantonment of that a few passengers woman rethe accidentas 747 fated flight. from and Airbus A380 and and crashedto problems in the supply chain and after were the Southern dropping wife Pushpa, was delivered London,andanother to India for foundneartheemergencydoors ing to London Command. Maheshwari herhus- and Source: from Vaso; Ajay Boeing helping drive both jets Raj,Reuters, Boeing the 135 on board. later acknowledged it Isha coming yhadgot out of had The debris of the aircraft turning after heryoungdaughterwith Their Vasuben Vadtal; and Purnima of the Patel — they were gone too far with outsourcing. was Patel from Ahmedabad’sBavla.The inconin and Nancy aircraft. An spread over Vadodara. medical treatment on June 10. Patel (right) of the Air INDIAN artbreakIt was one of these emer- band’s family an area spanning Dakor. barely Sisters Rupal while apthe passengers 500 metres. First responders, Patel from relatives of Piyush married that among Maheshwari gency doors through which to neighbourssaid,“Itishedeparted Flight 605 crashed killing 92 AIRLINES to London solable Isha hands, Of these, 39- though, Her parents We are unable 605 takto India flight INDIAN AIRLINES Canada and gaze from her HAL Airport, year-old them... Kumar, are ing news.said that some pieces look for Vishwas de- FLIGHT immediately and minutes after rt. are based in by the ad- shifted her dark red mehndi. ahospitalin senger to terms with this a pas- were also found 900 crashed just proaching Bengaluru’s The Airbus A320 of (1990) for Ahmedabad samples and Patel with board. contacted to come who survived the metres DNA short eensavIndia adorned family urged her of the 146 on miracle.” crash, away.Threeof thefourbuildings have been ingoff fromAhmedabadairpoon live.Anemployeeof the ground only submit their to come to As her passengers said to for a exited the low and hit her... She had Karamsad,Bhavnahadbthe visit is hoping haveof Rupal Patel (44), thattheplanehitwereonfireaf- ministration a golf course. The list of eyes remained burnscended too make try to look for her daughter in atatleast DNA samples. Relatives strong, her skidding onto no ing aircraft. her leaves to off in Anand, said and give their “Our team is at stay the runway, flightAI-171showedth Gujarat’s ing and she showed come to drop the UK. side of come back from Uttarsandaway back after ter the right was to the aircraft transfixed, other When the fire department were from Yadav said, — her first to her 33 of them the wails of Bhavna and people India and 19 from she was on andpolicecontrolroomreceived sheared through them.Ourheart the civil hospital in Ahmedabad. reaction to her. 12, 1996, 349 for treatAmit Rana, The tail “My paaround to India ON NOV with all Anand district, shortlytotakeherback. became nephew, said, taken having come the aircraft was found 17 from Kheda. grieving relatives the first messages of thehas two end of out to the family, especially We are in close contact CHARKHI DADRI were killed in what Vadodara, and aviation aught Anandi’s goes and that she crash embedded in the of affected perBhavna, had top around 1.38 pm, many most devastating ternal aunt, to visit ment children in the UK. MID-AIR COLLISION the InAnanddistrict,adistr little daughter.”floor ofakash family members London. “She said 763, a officers firstbuilding,wherethemedical vnaRana SUKRITA BARUAH (1996) India’s Saudia Flightshe would not l,had the for two months said young disaster. to call KhedaCollectorAmitPr familyrecalledthatBhaRana had leave Both my paternal aunts that they thought the plane students be able “Herbrother,PawanPate Kazakhstan for the next few GUWAHATI, JUNE 12 Anandi were having lunch in 747, attheairport hadbeeninvolvedinanaccident Boeingand and and her sister their London. the flight. Our family days that shean Ilyushin call1907, would be the canteen. forward to to gonetodropheroff were on Airlines Flight been looking near ing in Ahmedabad ontheairportpremises,possibly Within three hours, everything Il-76,again after returning on June Firefighters told The Indian vacation in London, collided mid-air members are due to an aborted take-off two-month children 15. That was in Haryana. The two or Express that the her last call to us,” changed for a family in black box had landing attempt. Manipur Charkhi Dadrithe result of a comwhere Bhavna’s he said. was beenretrievedfromthisspotusafter reports of the Air But as they reached the India accident three and the Only failure hours site ingcranesandotherheavymovplane crash in Ahmedabad later, munication of the crash, a cluster below Nandesh Kumar Sharma descending of hostel ing equipment. came in. said Kazakh crew altitude. their assigned India introduced Following the, safety meassignificant aviation mandating the ures, including TCAS on all cominstallation of mercial aircraft. PASSENGERS As per ATC, the aircraft PRESS TRUST OF INDIA departedfromAhmedabadat1339 AHMEDABAD, JUNE 12 IST (0809 UTC) from Runway 23. ItgaveaMAYDAYCalltoATC,but SOON AFTER the takeoff, the pi- thereafternoresponsewasgiven lot of ill-fated Air India aircraft by the aircraft to the calls made gave a Mayday call to the Ahmedabadairtrafficcontroller. by ATC, according to the DGCA statement. However, thereafter no reThe aircraft immediately sponse was given by the afaircraft ter departure from Runway 23 to the calls made by ATC, avia- fell on the ground tion regulator DGCA said in a airport perimeter, outside the statement. it said adding At around 2 pm, the London- heavy black smoke was seen coming from the accident bound Air India plane site. carrying The Boeing aircraft, which could 242 passengers and crew be seen losing altitude quickly, crashed moments after taking off fromtheAhmedabadairport. crashed in Meghaninagar area near the airport. Several casualties are feared. “On Jun 12, 2025, Air The aircraft was under India the B787 Aircraft VT-ANB command of Capt while opSumeet erating flight AI-171 from Sabharwal with First Officer (Ahmedabad to Gatwick) has Clive Kundar, DGCA said. Capt crashed immediately Sumeet Sabharwal is a after takeLTC with off from Ahmedabad. There 8200 hours of experience. The were 242 persons co-pilot had 1100 hours on board the of flying aircraft consisting experience. of 2 pilots and 10 cabin crew,” DGCA said in the in Manipur: Father of crew Arvind Yadav/Express Facebook,” he said. NganthoihadjoinedAirIndia in April 2023 when she was a teenager. It was her first job. “She had just appeared for her first semester exam at DM College in Imphal. Some of her member Her job kept her on the move constantly. Nganthoi lived in Mumbaiwithagroupof women from Manipur who work in Air India. Nganthoi had last come home in Mar archive ALLIANCE 12crashedintoa AIR FLIGHT ALLIANCEAIRFLIGHT74 inPatnawhileattempt- 7412 (2000) denselypopulatedarea 37-200experienceda ingtoland.TheBoeing7 othereportedimproper stallatlowaltitudeduet lapproach.Sixtypeople eontheground. handlingduringthefina werekilled,includingfiv Flight 812 AIR INDIA EXPRESS while landAIR INDIA EXPRESS overshot the runway International (2010) FLIGHT 812 ing at Mangaluru 737-800, coming Airport. Boeing a gorge plunged into from Dubai, runway and beyond the tabletop killing 158. It burst into flames, scrutiny to brought increased airports. India’s tabletop INDIA EXPRESS of the Boeing The wreckage lies at the 787-8 Dreamliner of its part site, showing VT-ANB. The — registration 787the Boeing wreckage of lies at the site, 8 Dreamliner of its showing part VT-ANB. The — registration 787the Boeing wreckage of lies at the site, 8 Dreamliner The plane crashed into the residential quarters of BJ Medical College and Civil Hospital in Meghaninagar, Ahmedabad. Bhupendra Rana Ex-Gujarat CM among dead, was on way to meet family PARIMAL A DABHI & LEENA MISRA AHMEDABAD, JUNE 12 ADVANCED PASSENGER JETS 13,530 km acationto sistersgoingonv Amongdead,twourningafterdroppingdaughter London,momret THE LIST OF CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Viswashkumar Ramesh, the lone survivor, at a hospital on Thursday. PTI WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM Plane crash puts Boeing’s safety record under fresh scrutiny afternoon.Weweretoldshewas on the ill-fated flight. We are all A PILOT months away praying," a relative said. from retirement, a flight attendant with more than 11 years of ROSHNI experiRAJENDRA ence, two crew members SONGHARE, CREW MEMBER who hadjoinedAirIndiarecentlyand a young flight attendant THE NEW YORK TIMES from Roshni Panvel who had become DEEPAK a Rajendra source of inspiration for THE CRASH of a Boeing PATHAK, count787 Songhare, Dreamliner less young girls in her CREW passenger jet in village 27, was western India were among the 12-member MEMBER on Thursday is reJULY 2013: An empty one of the newing crew that went down Deepak scrutiny of the comwith the Ethiopian Airlines 787 crew Air India Dreamliner. pany’ssafetyrecordafterayearsPathak, a caught fire on the members long quality Badlapurcrisis. ground at Heathrow on board CAPTAIN SUMEET based Air An Air India passenger plane airport in an incident the ill- carrying SABHARWAL, PILOT India flight 242 passengers and later linked to a shortfated Air crew members CAPTAIN SUMEET Sabharwal, attendant, was one of the crew that was headed members on the circuit in an Emergency India 60, was the senior-most to London crashed in western crew Ahmedabad-London crashed Locator Transmitter. flight that India on member on board the flight. A Thursday, the airline Air India committed crashedin said on social airline employee for flight that crashed shortly media. Air India after 2013: Regulators soon after said 242 takeoff fromAhmedabad.Along more than 11 years, Deepak passengers and crew never missed calling home temporarily grounded takeoff. A serving pilot, Sabharwal beresident of Madhabi Bungalow were onboard the plane when it had fore any flight, the global 787 fleet he did the same been living in Jalvayu area on Rajaji Path in Dombivili, crashed. These include 169 Vihar in on Thursday. following the Powai with his 90-year-old Indians, 53 British, Songhare’s parents and seven fa“He called us like he always overheating of lithium brother Portuguese ther.Accordingtoneighbours,he and a Canadian. The sister of Captain Summet rushed to Mumbai airport does, just before he was batteries on two when There was no Sabharwal, who was commanding was just a few months leaving. immediate inforthey got the news. away Weneverthoughtitcouldbethe in Mumbai on Wednesday. Sankhadeep the plane, at his residence Japanese planes in from retirement and Banerjee Songhare, who recently mation about survivors. had last," a family member Tokyo and Boston, planned to spend more Boeing 787 Dreamliner said. joined Air India, was on time at The family had hopes resulting in design duty as a planes have home with his aging father. in the CREW MEMBER experienced operaflight attendant, said a initial moments after the changes to better relative, tional problems cated and professional “He was very reserved, crash. Saineeta Chakravarty, in the past with adding that it was her disciwith her dreams in contain the risk of 35, fondly whatever “dream” passengersonboard,resultingin the aviation sec- to plined.Weusedtoseehimcome "His phone was still ringing… called he knew. "She worked become an air hostess. 'Pinky' by neighbours and we thought maybe he was tor despite coming from thermal runaway. and go in uniform often, hard to reach where she a humsafe," friends, was one She lived with her parents injuries. But there has not been was. It's ble background. but he of the ten cabin heartbreaking," wasaveryreservedperson,”said they said, not speculating until crew afatalityrecordedinpreviousinhe added. who were on board the confirmation came from HavingstudiedinTSRahman and brother in the New Umiya cidentsinvolvingtheBoeing787 MARCH 2024: 50 were Air a neighbour from Jalvayu the au- India Dreamliner. Krupa Society in Dombivali Vihar. thorities. Vidyalaya till Class XII, Chakravarty MAITHILI hurt when a 787 East. Dreamlineraircraft,accordingto Sabharwal leaves behind she en- Her relatives MORESHWAR rolled was a Juhu Koliwada his described her as a the Deepak's relatives spoke operated by LATAM resident in an aviation course and oldersister,whoresidesinDelhi. Aviation Safety Network of whohadrecentlyjoinedAirIndia PATIL, CREW MEMBER “bright and intelligent” him as duty bound and Airlines dropped in young database. Her two sons have also A 24-year-old flight atten- got the full backing of her family woman, disci- afterhavingworkedwithGoAir. taken up who achieved whatshe despitefinancialwoes,theysaid. mid-flight from Sydney thesameprofessionandbothare plined, a person who worked “We are aware of initial aimed for once she finished A childhood friend, Nicky dant from Nhava village in rededicatedly at his job and She landed a job at Air to Auckland. her ports and are working commercial pilots. His Panvel was among those never D'Souza, said, India education. In death is to gather feared and had become "We grew up to- dead her neighbour- more Investigators focused on shock, not just to his family, a lost touch. The tragedy has gether. a source information,” Boeing said in the plane crash She attended Manekji but brought the Pathak in spiration for countless of in- hood, her Air India uniform was an involuntary forward also to the residential Ahmedabad on Thursday in a statement. family into young a matter of pride. commu- greatsorrow,aswellasthelarger CooperSchoolandlaterMithibai after- girls in Nhava movement in the pilot village and benity in Powai where he noon. The crash comes as Boeing College. Even after she She also had a sizeable had lived community is yond, they added. "She seat. shifted, I folin Badlapur that would —REUTERS for many years. Villagers gathered at was our lowingonInstagram,54,000fol- still wending through a yearscatch a glimpse of her octhe knew him as a gentle person house of Maithili Moreshwar pride. Her achievements gave us lowers, long legal saga over two Captain Sabharwal was to casionally in her deadly and regularly posted co- count on. uniform." immense joy. The news piloting the Dreamliner crashes of its 737 Max of the snippets from Although they had shifted Patil after news of the tragedy accident with his plane in blew open her life there. has numbed all of us," on a Boeing 737 Max first officer, Clive Kundar, started dominating news 2018 and 2019 that killed apart over As soon as it became which SAINEETA head- a neighbour said 346 9duringanAlaskaAirlinesflight, clear people. The company CHAKRAVARTY, Saineeta the years, Nicky said lines, with most recollecting of Maithili, the that reached a exposing Roshni was on duty on had always been dedithe eldest of four siblings. passengers to forceful the deal hard work she put in to with the pursue Justice winds. Boeing "She left for work yesterday Air India flight, Dombivili MLA Department told regulators in last month, which August and state BJP president Ravindra would spare of that year it would rethe company from takingcriminalresponsibilityfor design the panels to better detect any malfunctions. the crashes. In April 2024, the Federal As part of the deal, Boeing Aviation Administration would still have to admit said it The Boeing 787 Dreamliner to ob- was investigating is one of the most advanced structing federal oversight, claims made pay jets in service and has safety record. The 787-8, afine,contributetoafundforthe by a Boeing engineer who said a generally strong involved in the crash, S.COM is the smallest of three familiesof thevictimsandinvest that sections of the fuselage of WWW.INDIANEXPRES variants in safety and quality programs. the 787 Dreamliner, the model involved in the crash in The deal, which must still India on be ap- Thursday, were passenger capacity improperly fasproved by a judge, was range opposed tened together and could break by many of the families 787s sold, of the apart midflight after thousands crash victims. including 47 The airplane manufacturer of trips. Boeing said at the time to Air India hasfacedotherprominentsafety it had done extensive testing issues. In January 2024, on the a hole Dreamliner and “determined ‘Most were still strapped in’: First responders recount scenes of horror BESIDES THE passengers and crewonboardtheAirIndiaflight, at least 24 people, including four medical students, were killed on the ground, as the plane crashed into the hostel building of the B J MedicalCollegeinMeghaninagar area of Ahmedabad on Thursday afternoon. Confirming the deaths at themedicalcollege,DrMinakshi Parikh, Dean, B J Medical College,saidfourMBBSstudents — two from First Year Flight AIR (2020) AIR INDIA EXPRESSpart of FLIGHT 1344 as 1344, operating repatriathe Vande Bharat off the skidded tion mission, landing at the runway while Airport Kozhikode (Calicut) Amid 2020. on August 7, aircraft overheavy rain, the tabletop runshot the wet into a valley way, plunged 190 two. Of the and split into including two on board, 21, lives. pilots, lost their Source: PTI on couple were Maharashtra to meet son way to London PAGES 10-12 FORMER GUJARAT Chief Minister and senior BJP leader VijayRupaniwasamongthepeople who lost their lives in the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad on Thursday. He was 68. A close relative said Rupani was set to fly to London earlier CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 VIJAY RUPANI 1956-2025 ‘11A’ miracle: Don’t know how I am alive, says survivor EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE AHMEDABAD, JUNE 12 IN NOTHING short of a miracle, one passenger survived the deadly crash on Thursday. The lonesurvivorhasbeenidentified as Viswashkumar Ramesh (39), aBritishnationalof Indianorigin. Ahmedabad Police CommissionerGyanenderSingh Malik confirmed to The Indian Express that a male passenger, seated in '11A', had survived the crash.SourcesintheGujaratgovernment said they only had information of “one survivor as of now”. Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who reached Ahmedabad by evening, also confirmed that there was a survivor, and he had CONTINUED ON PAGE 2