Air India Flying Crash: Air India, on Tuesday offered emotional farewell to Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, who lost his life on a fatal aircraft in Ahmedabad, along with 240 others on Thursday, June 12.
Air India provided a “final greeting” to Captain Sabharwal and honored him as “an exceptional aviator” and published on X: “Captain RIP. You will miss.”
“Exceptional aviator” was laid today to rest on June 17th. His funeral was attended by Air India COO, HR head and Tata Group communication head, Air India shared on X.
Local residents-Capitan Sabharwal-, who was in the cockpit of the unfortunate flight AI-I71, reportedly managed to avert the plane like a “hero” to avoid accumulation into any apartment building and save many lives.
Air India’s Flying Crash
June 12 – “The darkest day in the history of Tata Group”, black smoke sky filled the sky in Ahmedabad’s Mehnaninagar after the flight AI171 broke the BJ Medical College hostel and killed 241 people on board and others.
The number of victims climbed to 270, including MBBS students, a doctor with a PG resident who had lunch in a mess when the London-bound Gatwick lost height and turned into a “fire ball”-it was in the hostel.
The bodies were burned, which required forensic teams to perform DNA tests to identify and forward their relatives. Ahmedabad civilian Hospital Superintendent Rrakesh Joshi said that a total of 163 DNA samples have been compared since this evening
Only one person – sitting in 11A at the time of the accident – Ramesh Vishwas Kumar, miraculously survived.
Captain Sabharwal – “hero”
Even in the face of a deadly accident, the locals remember the late captain Boeing Dreamliner as a “hero”.
All 18 families living in a three -storey building under the flight path are sure that the captain of Sumaet Sabharwal saved their lives. His Boeing 787 Dreamliner, who was aimed directly at their homes, moved away as a skillful treatment of an emergency disaster in this place, the Sun reported.
Captain Sumaet Sabharwal – pilot veteran; had more than 8000 hours of flying experience
At the age of 54, the captain of Sumaet Sabharwal was the son of an officer of the Indian Civil Aviation Office.
The deceased captain was a seasoned pilot with 8,200 hours of flight and also the primary caregiver for his father – currently at the age of 80 – which he called just before takeoff.
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