53 m. ago Couple killed in Air India plane crash lost pilot son in earlier aviation tragedy

Prayers were held at Hindu temples across north-west London on Thursday evening following the Air India crash in Ahmedabad as the Gujarati community in the capital had been hit "especially hard"

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59 m. ago Do 'miracle seats' whose occupants can survive a plane crash exist? Experts reveal all after Air India's sole survivor escaped from 11A

A British man sitting in seat 11A survived the fatal Air India Flight 171 to the awes of the world as many said it was an un-survivable flight. Now, experts reveal if miracle seats actually exist.

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72 m. ago Two children orphaned after Air India plane crash kills dad scattering mum's ashes

Father-of-two Arjun Patolia was on his way back to London after scattering the ashes of his late wife - but was tragically confirmed as one of the 241 victims who perished on the doomed Air India flight 171

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94 m. ago 'Mystic' meaning behind miracle of 11A: Air India's sole survivor travelled in a seat with an 'angel number'

People are convinced that the sole survivor of the Air India plane crash - in what has been described as a miraculous event - was protected by his 'auspicious' seat number.

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1 hour ago Tributes pour in for Britons killed in Air India plane crash

Two sisters in their early 20s on their way home from surprising their grandmother for her birthday are among the victims.

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1 hour ago Safest Boeing plane seats pinpointed in crash test before Air India disaster

Back in 2012, a film crew carried out a controversial experiment, crashing a Boeing 727-200 on purpose to find out if passengers in certain seats had greater chances of surviving

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2 h. ago Harrowing tales behind Air India plane crash include 'surprise trip' and wife's final wish

The harrowing tales behind doomed Air India flight 171 saw happiness wiped out in an instant - 241 of the 242 people on board tragically died

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2 h. ago Young girls orphaned after father dies in Air India plane crash on way back from scattering wife’s ashes

Arjun Patoliya had travelled to India to hold a funeral for his wife Bharti who died from cancer just weeks earlier

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2 h. ago Young families, the sole survivor’s brother and tragic final selfies: The British victims of Air India plane crash

Victims include a family of three from Gloucester and a London-based couple who ran a spiritual wellness company

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2 h. ago Colleagues pay tribute to 'warm, smiling' doctor and family who perished on doomed Air India plane

Tributes were paid today to a 'warm, smiling and kind' NHS doctor, his wife and three young children were wiped out in the horrific Air India plane crash.

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3 h. ago ‘It’s all very raw’: Twenty victims of the Air India plane disaster connected to the same London temple

Shri Rajrajeshwar Guruji International Siddhashram Shakti Centre said multiple worshippers had lost loved ones in the tragedy

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3 h. ago ‘She was a wonder’: Ahmedabad reels amid aftermath of Air India plane crash

True scale of the tragedy still unfolding, as accounts of those onboard begin to emergeAs he dropped off his only daughter at Ahmedabad airport, Suraj Mistry seized the opportunity to take one final family selfie before she went back to London. Kinal Mistry, 24, had laughed lovingly at her father as he made her promise that they would meet again soon. “Yes, Daddy, very soon,” she said.Instead, the photo – of Kinal smiling beside her mother and father – would commemorate the last time his family was a whole. In scenes of horror that have since reverberated around the world, just a few minutes after the flight took off from Ahmedabad airport on Thursday morning, it plummeted from the sky, exploding in an inferno of fire and black smoke. Only one of the 242 people onboard survived. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago 'Angel' NHS nurse in Air India plane crash was on way back from visiting children

Renjitha Gopakumaran was killed in the Air India plane crash yesterday. She was on her way home to the UK and her job at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth

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4 h. ago How seat 11A 'increased survival odds' for lone survivor of Air India plane crash

Aviation experts say the case of a single lucky survivor is "very unusual", so how did he survive?

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4 h. ago Air India crash: British survivor recounts watching people 'dying in front of my eyes'

All, but one of the 242 people on the London-bound Air India flight died when the plane crashed into a residential area shortly after take-off on Thursday.

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4 h. ago 'It got stuck': Air India plane crash survivor reveals exact moment he knew something was wrong

The sole British survivor of the horrific Air India plane crash has spoken out on the terrifying final moments before the passenger jet plunged into a nearby building

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4 h. ago Survivor's claim that lights on Air India flight 'started flickering' could solve mystery of plane crash that killed 242 people, claim aviation experts

Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, 40, from Leicester, has also described feeling like the Boeing 787 Dreamliner was 'stuck in the air' and was 'gliding' rather than climbing after take off.

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5 h. ago Tributes paid to highly respected radiologist killed in Air India plane crash

Dr Prateek Joshi died alongside his family in the disaster on Thursday.

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5 h. ago Air India plane crash latest: Second black box recovered from Dreamliner wreckage as grieving families demand answers

Air India's Boeing 787 fleet could be grounded temporarily

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5 h. ago ‘Why me?’: Six extraordinary stories of sole plane crash survivors after British man walks away from India Air disaster

After Ramesh Viswashkumar somehow survived the Air India plane crash that killed everyone else on board, Alex Ross takes a look at other lone survivors and how it changed their lives forever

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