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The AI-171 Boeing Dreamliner 787-8 aeroplane bound for London's Gatwick had crashed shortly after it took off from the Ahmedabad International Airport on Thursday. The airlines said only one out of the 242 people on board the aircraft survived the crash.
Captain Sabharwal, a resident of Jal Vayu Vihar in Powai, Mumbai, recently informed his 82-year-old father, a former DGCA official, that he would soon take a break to spend time with him. That visit will now certainly not happen.
Ahmedabad: After a tragic airplane crash near Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad that claimed the lives of 265 people, Air India has changed the flight number of the Ahmedabad-Gatwick route (from Ahmedabad to London). This was done to erase the painful memories of the crash.