2 w. ago Postmaster whose father died in Air India crash faces battle with Royal Mail to save the family business

Umang Patel, who lost his father in last week’s plane crash, said Royal Mail’s decision to close a small delivery office could cost him his Post Office branch

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2 w. ago Family bids emotional goodbye to pilot of doomed Air India plane: ‘He tried his best’

Captain Sabharwal has been hailed a ‘hero’ by locals for diverting his falling plane away from a densely-populated residential area

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2 w. ago This Morning issues family tribute to Air India crash victims after 'charming' duo's appearance on show

Among those who died in the crash was Fiongal Greenlaw and his husband, Jamie, who previously appeared on the ITV daytime show

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2 w. ago Families grieve as officials finally start handing over remains of Air India crash victims

Tensions are mounting over the slow pace of DNA identification following the deadly Air India crash

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2 w. ago Family of Air India crash victims say they have been ‘abandoned’

The aircraft struck a medical college hostel in a residential part of Ahmedabad, killing 241 of the 242 people on board.

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3 w. ago First Air India crash funeral held as Brit mum victim released to family

Elcina Alpesh Makwana, 41, was one of at least 270 people who were killed in the Air India crash. Her body was released to her family and she has now been buried

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3 w. ago 'Sweet and gentle' mother from London first British Air India crash victim released to family

A funeral was held for Elcina Alpesh Makwan on Sunday — just three days after the aviation disaster which killed 270 people

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3 w. ago ‘They were inseparable’: family’s anguish at wait to bring Air India victims home

Relatives of Pooja and Harshit Patel, who were visiting from Leicester, want to cremate them together but have faced painful wait for identificationIn the ramshackle, cramped lanes of Ambika Nagar in the Indian city of Gujarat, everyone spoke of Pooja and Harshit Patel with pride. The couple had done what none of their relatives or neighbours had managed to achieve before; they had moved abroad, settling among the thriving Gujarati diaspora community in the British city of Leicester.Their lives in Leicester, where the couple had moved so Pooja could complete her business masters degree – later getting a job at Amazon alongside Harshit – seemed unimaginably glamorous to their relatives and close-knit community back in India. Pooja would call her mother, 58-year-old Chandra Mate, at least three times a day with tales of British life and to show off her latest outfits, spinning in front of the mirror. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago British 'miracle' sole survivor of Air India plane crash is reunited with his family as he mourns loss of brother

Vishwashkumar Ramesh, 40 is being treated at the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad, just a short distance from where the Gatwick bound flight crashed into buildings.

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3 w. ago Families grieve as officials start handing remains of victims killed in Air India crash

Khushboo Rajpurohit, a 21-year-old newlywed, was among 241 passengers killed in Air India crash. Her family travelled over 500km to receive her mortal remains, Namita Singh reports

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3 w. ago 'I'm on the plane safely': British man's heartbreaking final words to family moments before Air India crash

Ramesh Patel's grieving family have revealed the heartbreaking final words they received from him moments before he was killed in the Ahmedabad air disaster.

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3 w. ago Dozens gather at Harrow temple to mourn family and friends killed in Air India crash

Dozens gather at Harrow temple to mourn family and friends killed in Air India crash  London Evening Standard

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3 w. ago Dozens gather at Harrow temple to mourn family and friends killed on Air India flight to London Gatwick

As many as 20 of the flight’s victims are thought to have previously worshipped at the Siddhashram Shakti Centre in Harrow

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3 w. ago Family of Air India crash victims speak of their ‘tremendous’ loss

The family of a couple who died with their daughter in the Air India plane crash say they will be missed “tremendously”.

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3 w. ago NHS pays tribute to 'warm, smiling' doctor and family who perished in Air India crash

Dr Prateek Joshi was flying back to the UK with his wife Komi Vyas and their three children on the doomed Air India plane after they planned to settle down in the East Midlands

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3 w. ago Family of young couple killed in Air India crash speak of their loss

Zaheera Nanabawa said Akeel Nanabawa, his wife Hannaa Vorajee and their four-year-old daughter Sara Nanabawa would be missed ‘tremendously’.

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3 w. ago The heartbreaking final selfie of British family moments before they boarded doomed Air India flight

Sayedmiya Inayatali, 48, had been visiting his 90-year-old mother in India with his wife, Nafisabanu, 46, and their children, Waqueeali, 25, and Taskin, 22.

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3 w. ago Air India crash survivor’s family have received ‘no support’ in desperate bid to see relative

The family of Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, the sole survivor of the Air India crash, claim they have received “no support” from the governments of the UK or India as they try to fly out to see their relative “as soon as possible”.

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3 w. 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 w. ago Family of Air India crash survivor planned to celebrate his return with barbecue

Wounded Vishwash Kumar Ramesh was able to walk free from the wreckage of flight AI171 in Ahmedabad after his section of the aircraft survived relatively unscathed

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